Script to monitor and restart VM locked

[Maschimidt]

Hello,
I wonder if it is possible to run a script to check the status of a particular virtual machine, and even if the system is locked reset it

Thanks...

[LucD]

You mean the overall status ?

Get-VM -Name MyVM  | Select @{N="OverallStatus";E={$_.ExtensionData.OverallStatus}}

[Maschimidt]

Hi Luc

I will explain, Monday realized that a virtual machine not responding "ping" and the VMware Tools status was Not Running, I opened the console and saw that the machine was locked, so I was thinking of a script to check the machine status , and the same answer as the offline script reset the machine automatically

Thanks..

[LucD]

You mean locked in the sense that you couldn't interact with the guest OS from the console ?

[Maschimidt]

Exactly, for some reason the machine was locked, did not answer, so I had to make a guest restart manually

[LucD]

That situation is not always easy to detect I'm afraid.

You can test with a ping to the guest OS and check if the VMware Tools are not running.

Something like this

$vm = Get-VM -Name MyVM
if(!(Test-Connection -ComputerName $vm.Guest.HostName -Quiet) -and
    $vm.Guest.State -eq "NotRunning"){
    Stop-VM -VM $vm -Confirm:$false -Kill
    Start-VM -VM $vm
}

[Maschimidt]

I'll do some tests and give feedback

thank you

[MKguy]

Apart from scripting something on your own maybe you should look into the VM monitoring feature of HA instead, which is designed to do exactly what you want: Resetting a crashed/unresponsive guest OS.

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc_50%2FGUID-62B80D7A...

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/07/20/testing-vm-monitoring-on-vsphere-5-0/