Script to add new hard disk to multiple VM's

[prasanna22kumar]

Hi All/Lucd,

Kindly help me in powershell Script to add new hard disk (10 GB) to multiple VM's.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Kumar

[mpeneva]

Hi,

You need to use the New-HardDisk command. Here is its documentation link: https://developer.vmware.com/docs/powercli/latest/vmware.vimautomation.core/commands/new-harddisk/#C...

In your case, I would do something like :

foreach ($vm in $vms){

  $vm | New-HardDisk -CapacityGB 10 [any_other_settings if needed to be added] | Out-Null

}

Regards,

Maya

[prasanna22kumar]

Hi Maya,

Thanks for your reply..

If I want include 'Thin Provisioning' and create the disk on default location of the VM reside datastore.

Thanks in advance 

Regards,

Kumar 

[mpeneva]

HI,

The New-HardDisk cmdlet has the needed parameters for these actions (Check the help link above).

Regards,

Maya

[prasanna22kumar]

Hello Maya,

Getting error can help me out..Please

New-HardDisk : 23/06/2022 10:30:12 New-HardDisk Strings as pipeline input are not supported.
At C:\temp\win.ps1:6 char:9
+ $vm | New-HardDisk -CapacityGB 10 -DiskType PMem
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-HardDisk], VimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_ObnArgumentTransformationAttribute_Transform_InvalidPipelineArgument,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.VirtualDevice.NewHardDisk

New-HardDisk : 23/06/2022 10:30:12 New-HardDisk Strings as pipeline input are not supported.
At C:\temp\win.ps1:6 char:9
+ $vm | New-HardDisk -CapacityGB 10 -DiskType PMem
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-HardDisk], VimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_ObnArgumentTransformationAttribute_Transform_InvalidPipelineArgument,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.VirtualDevice.NewHardDisk

[prasanna22kumar]

this throws an error

At C:\temp\test.ps1:4 char:9
+ $vm | New-HardDisk -CapacityGB 10
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-HardDisk], VimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_ObnArgumentTransformationAttribute_Transform_InvalidPipelineArgument,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.VirtualDevice.NewHardDisk

Below is the script i'm trying 

$vms=Get-Content "c:\temp\batch.txt"
foreach ($vm in $vms)
{
$vm|New-HardDisk -CapacityGB 10
}

[LucD]

What do you have in $vm?
A String with the name of the VM?
Try doing

Get-VM -Name $vm | New-HardDisk -CapacityGB 10

[prasanna22kumar]

Thanks LucD for your reply..

After adding the line as you mentioned getting following error.

New-HardDisk : 23/02/2023 17:35:56 New-HardDisk The operation for the entity "xcpXXXXX" failed with the following message: "A general system error occurred: PBM error occurred
during PreReconfigureCallback: Fault cause: vmodl.fault.SystemError
;
"
At C:\temp\test.ps1:4 char:22
+ Get-VM -Name $vm | New-HardDisk -CapacityGB 10
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [New-HardDisk], SystemError
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_TaskServiceImpl_CheckServerSideTaskUpdates_OperationFailed,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.VirtualDevice.NewHardDisk

Regards,

Kumar

[LucD]

See KB2118557, this error occurs when the Profile-Driven Storage service is not running or is not accepting connections