Creating VM from CLI

[galapow_av]

Hi,

PowerCLI C:\> Get-PowerCLIVersion

PowerCLI Version

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   VMware PowerCLI 6.5 Release 1 build 4624819

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Component Versions

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   VMware Cis Core PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 4624453

   VMware VimAutomation Core PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 4624450

   VMWare ImageBuilder PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 4561891

   VMWare AutoDeploy PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 4561891

   VMware HA PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 4525225

   VMware HorizonView PowerCLI Component 7.0.2 build 4596620

   VMware Licensing PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 4624822

   VMware Storage PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 4624820

   VMware Vds PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 4624695

   VMware vROps PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 4624824

   VMware vSphere Update Manager PowerCLI 6.5 build 4540462

I'm connecting to ESXi which version is

Version:

6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 14320388)

The licence is VMware vSphere 6 Standard

Running:

New-VM -Name master1.loadtest.local -Datastore Esxi23_Raid5_12TB -DiskGB 250 -MemoryGB 24 -NumCPU 12 -DiskStorageFormat Thick

This create the vm but gives:

New-VM : 11/26/2019 1:15:37 PM  New-VM          Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

At line:1 char:1

+ New-VM -Name master1.loadtest.local -Datastore Esxi23_Raid5_12TB -Dis ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [New-VM], VimException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ViCore_ResultConverter_ConvertOnSuccess_VM_Failed,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Co

   mmands.NewVM

PowerCLI C:\> Get-VM -Name master1.loadtest.local

Name                 PowerState Num CPUs MemoryGB

----                 ---------- -------- --------

master1.loadtest.... PoweredOff 12       24.000

I would like to change the SCSI controller from Buslogic Parallel to ParaVirtual

PowerCLI C:\> Get-HardDisk -VM master1.loadtest.local

Get-HardDisk : 11/26/2019 1:21:17 PM    Get-HardDisk            Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

At line:1 char:1

+ Get-HardDisk -VM master1.loadtest.local

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-HardDisk], VimException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.VirtualDevice.

   GetHardDisk

How can I change the scsi controller 0 to Paravirtual from cli?

The default guestOS is windows

how can I change that to CentOS 7 (64bit) from cli?

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Is there a specific reason you are using such an old PowerCLI version?

[galapow_av]

No.

Now I found VMware vSphere Command Line Interface 6.7

Let me check with that

[galapow_av]

Thanks a lot

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-PowerCLIVersion

PowerCLI Version

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   VMware PowerCLI 11.5.0 build 14912921

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Component Versions

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   VMware Common PowerCLI Component 11.5 build 14898112

   VMware Cis Core PowerCLI Component PowerCLI Component 11.5 build 14898113

   VMware VimAutomation VICore Commands PowerCLI Component PowerCLI Component 11.5 build 14899560

VMware vSphere 5.1

This explains how to change after the creation, is it possible to add the ParaVirtual option when executing New-VM ?

[LucD]

Not with the New-VM cmdlet, but you can do

$vm = New-VM -Name master1.loadtest.local -Datastore Esxi23_Raid5_12TB -DiskGB 250 -MemoryGB 24 -NumCPU 12 -DiskStorageFormat Thick

$ctrl = Get-ScsiController -VM $vm | Set-ScsiController -Type ParaVirtual -Confirm:$false

[DCasota]

The solution LucD proposed works.

Some similar code for years worked like a charm to modify a newly created VM.

$scsiController = Get-HardDisk -VM $VMName | Select -First 1 | Get-ScsiController

Set-ScsiController -ScsiController $scsiController -Type $scsicontrollertype

As Get-Harddisk -VM $VMname fails on PowerCLI 6.5.1, indeed there were some issues fixed in 6.5.4 VMware PowerCLI Release Notes .