Hi,
I am new to PowerCLI. Using vSphere client, I am able to clone/create VMs comfortably. Lately, we were thinking of having sort of scripts to automate creation of VMs. Found that PowerCLI is best bet for this. InstalledPowerCLI 5.1 on my laptop to play with commandlets. Some of the commands provided me the information, but when it came to creating a new VM or powering of an existing VM, it gives following error:
Can you please let me know whether it is a licensing issue or some privilage issue?
(x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI> C:\vm_Analysis\VM_SCRIPTING\50vmClon.ps1
Name Port User
---- ---- ----
10.23.174.2 443 admin
Shutdown-VMGuest : 2/22/2013 4:05:50 PM Shutdown-VMGuest Operation "Shutdown VM guest." failed for VM "VirtualHybrid1000" for the following reason: Current license or ESXi version prohibits
execution of the requested operation.
At C:\vm_Analysis\VM_SCRIPTING\50vmClon.ps1:4 char:17
+ Shutdown-VMGuest <<<< -VM $vm -Confirm:$false
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Shutdown-VMGuest], VimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_VmGuestServiceImpl_ShutdownVmGuest_ViError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.ShutdownVmGuest
New-VM : 2/22/2013 4:05:55 PM New-VM The operation for the entity VirtualMachine-1315 failed with the following message: "The operation is not supported on the object."
At C:\vm_Analysis\VM_SCRIPTING\50vmClon.ps1:7 char:18
+ 1..2 | % { New-VM <<<< -Name newvm$_ -VM $vm -Datastore $datastore -VMHost $vmhost }
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [New-VM], NotSupported
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_TaskServiceImpl_CheckServerSideTaskUpdates_OperationFailed,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.NewVM
PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI>
Thanks,
Pallakke
