Not able to clone from PowerCLI

[debajyotipal]

Hi All ,

I have a Vcenter Setup and having one ESXi host . When i am trying to clone a VM residing in the ESXi via Powercli , its giving error not able to find storage datastore1 . Below is the command i gave from vCenter .
Powercli > New-VM -name clone1 -Datastore datastore1 -VM <sourcevm name>  -VMHost <ESXI name>

New- New-VM Unable to get objects by name: server <ESXI name> not connected .

New-VM : New-VM Could not find StorageResource w
ith name 'datastore1'.

But I was able to do the cloning from Vsphere GUI .

Note : Datastore1 is local storage in ESXi host .

Regards

Deb

[LucD]

That is the latest version.

That error has been popping up in all kinds of operations.

Can you check the PowerShell version you are using ? Do a

$psversiontable

And the .Net version you have installed

Get-ChildItem 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP' -recurse |
Get-ItemProperty -name Version -EA 0 |
Where { $_.PSChildName -match '^(?!S)\p{L}'} |
Select PSChildName, Version

[debajyotipal]

PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI> $psversi

ontable

Name                           Value

----                           -----

CLRVersion                     2.0.50727.5466

BuildVersion                   6.1.7601.17514

PSVersion                      2.0

WSManStackVersion              2.0

PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0}

SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.1

PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI> Get-Chil

dItem 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP' -recurse |

>> Get-ItemProperty -name Version -EA 0 |

>> Where { $_.PSChildName -match '^(?!S)\p{L}'} |

>> Select PSChildName, Version

>>

PSChildName                             Version

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

v2.0.50727                              2.0.50727.5420

v3.0                                    3.0.30729.5420

Windows Communication Foundation        3.0.4506.5420

Windows Presentation Foundation         3.0.6920.5011

v3.5                                    3.5.30729.5420

PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI>