How to perform bulk changes in the VM Configuration Parameters for all VM ?

[AlbertWT]

Hi,

Can anyone here help me in performing a bulk changes in the VM Configuration Parameters from to add the following two lines:

1. isolation.tools.copy.disable="FALSE"
2. isolation.tools.paste.disable="FALSE"

this is as per the article below.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=102643...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[AureusStone · Accepted solution]

This should hopefully work, obviously test it first.   Have you considered making this change at the host level rather then guest.  It is a lot easier to modify and apply at the host level in my opinion.

Connect-VIServer <ServerName>
$vmConfigSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
$VMX01 = New-Object VMware.Vim.OptionValue
$VMX01.Key = “isolation.tools.copy.disable”
$VMX01.Value = “FALSE
$vmConfigSpec.ExtraConfig += $VMX01

$VMX02 = New-Object VMware.Vim.OptionValue
$VMX02.Key = “isolation.tools.paste.disable”
$VMX02.Value = “FALSE

$vmConfigSpec.ExtraConfig += $VMX02

Get-VM | %{
$_.Extensiondata.ReconfigVM($vmConfigSpec)
}

[AlbertWT]

Yes, I was thinking to do that because for some VMs in the clustered DMZ host, the copy paste feature must remains OFF, so yeah if I can modify your script to replace the Get-VM with Get-Cluster -Name DMZ-Clu01 | Get-VM ..... is that all that I need to change ?

[AureusStone]

Yep that is correct.  Should work fine.