Harware Compatability upgrade

[athurston]

Hi All,

does anyone know how i can set this tick box in the picture below with a powershell / powercli script? I do not need it to update there and then just so when the machine next gets restarted it upgrades the hardware level.

Thanks

Alex

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Discussion moved from VMware ESXi™ 4 to VMware vSphere™ PowerCLI

[RvdNieuwendijk · Accepted solution]

To enable the "Schedule VM Compatibility Upgrade..." tick box for a virtual machine called VM1 you can use the next PowerCLI script:

$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
$spec.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo = New-Object VMware.Vim.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo
$spec.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.scheduledHardwareUpgradeStatus = 'pending'
$spec.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.upgradePolicy = 'onSoftPowerOff'
$spec.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.versionKey = 'vmx-09'

Get-VM -Name VM1 | ForEach-Object {

  $_.ExtensionData.ReconfigVM_Task($spec)

}

The script sets the compatibility to "ESX 5.1 and later" and enables the "Only upgrade after normal guest OS shutdown" tick box.

[athurston]

Excellent thanks, will try this shortly

[kluken]

Cool, I just posted a thread  http://communities.vmware.com/message/2249221#2249221 where I wrapped this in a  quick ps script that you can point to vcenter and optional cluster and it will set it for all powered on vms.

[athurston]

Still struggling to get this working it looks like it cant add in the "scheduledhardwareupgrade" tasks??:smileyangry:

[RvdNieuwendijk]

Which PowerCLI version are you using? Do a: Get-PowerCLIVersion

The latest version at this moment is "VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2 build 1012425". If you don't have this version, try to download and install it and run the script again.

[kluken]

Yes make sure you have the latest PowerCLI.

[athurston]

Thanks for your help works a treat!:smileylaugh: