Hi All,
We currently have a 1000+ VM infrastructure spilt between 2 data-centres and are in the process of moving from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5.
What we want to ensure on the new 5.5 architecture is that any VM that did not have VMware tools installed - It gets installed on any powercycle event.
Is there a Mass script we could run for both linux and windows servers that can factor this in ?
At the moment we have 700 VM's that have tools installed and up to date
100 or so that have it installed and are not up to date
The remaining 200+ machines do not have tools installed and we want to automate them to install tools on any power cycle event.
For the 100 that are not up to date
we have followed the following tasks and confirmed that this works
vSphere Documentation Center
So any VM with out of date tools will automatically update on a power cycle
However the 200 that need Tools installing full stop - We need some help getting a script to work / if there is one that can do this
We can use the following to update tools at power cycle
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | $vm = Get-VM -Name "virtualmachine"$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
$spec.changeVersion = $vm.ExtensionData.Config.ChangeVersion
$spec.tools = New-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo
$spec.tools.toolsUpgradePolicy = "upgradeAtPowerCycle"
$_this = Get-View -Id $vm.Id
$_this.ReconfigVM_Task($spec)
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But we want something that can Install tools If not installed on Power Cycle rather than upgrade / update..
Hope that makes sense and that theres a script that we can use to do this.
Thanks all
