Script to create Multiple VMs from content library template

[PeteHow]

Hi -  I'm looking for a script that will create multiple vm's from a content library template or ova.  Where I can feed the script unique vm names, cpu, memory, choose the datastore to place the vm on as well as the cluster or host, and choose the customization spec to use, and feed it the details from a csv.  Is there a good one out there?

Thanks,

Pete

[LucD · Accepted solution]

I don't know of any scripts, but basically, this is just 3 cmdlets: Get-ContentLibraryItem, Import-Csv and New-VM.

Something like this for example

$templateName = 'MyTemplate'
$template = Get-ContentLibraryItem -Name $templateName

Import-Csv -Path .\vm.csv -PipelineVariable vm |
ForEach-Object -Process {
    $sVM = @{
        ContentLibraryItem = $template
        Name = $row.VMName
        Datastore = $row.Datastore
        DiskGB = $row.DiskGB
        MemoryGB = $row.MemoryGB
        Portgroup = $row.PortgroupName
        NumCPU = $row.NumCPU
        OSCustomizationSpec= $row.OSCustomizationSpec
        # Pick one: ResourcePool allows for cluster,resourcepool, vmhost
        #ResourcePool = $row.ResourcePool
        #VMHost = $row.VMHost
    }
    New-VM @SVM
}

[PeteHow]

Thanks Luc - I'll give that a try today.