Automation

I have been working on a scripts for updating the vmware tools on my guest servers. I have a requirement to do a specific set of servers at a specific time. This is based around our patching windows for each server as it was negociated with the clients. I have written the script below to push the tools update out but i am getting extreamly slow respose from the get-vm command it takes several minutes to complete as you can see from the measure-command output below. Does anyone have any idea why I am getting such slow response? It is almost faster to manually triger the updates. It looks like most of the time is consumed in the get-vm commandlet

Details:

I am running the script from a windows 2003 server fully patched in the same datacenter as my virtual center server and database server.

Script:

$VirtualCenter = "ap-vmvc-p01","ap-vmvc-p001"

$InputFile = $args[0].split(",")

Write-Host "Processing Input file"

write-Host "$inputfile"

write-host " "

foreach ($VC in $virtualcenter)

{

write-host "Connecting to Virtual Center ($VC)"

connect-viserver $vc

Foreach ($In in $InputFile)

{

$Input= import-csv $In

foreach ($Server in $Input.Name)

{

write-Host "Processing - $Server"

Get-VM $Server | update-tools

}

}

}

Command Time: (executing against only one vm)

Days : 0

Hours : 0

Minutes : 10

Seconds : 23

Milliseconds : 49

Ticks : 6230490894

TotalDays : 0.0072112163125

TotalHours : 0.1730691915

TotalMinutes : 10.38415149

TotalSeconds : 623.0490894

TotalMilliseconds : 623049.0894

Truth is a three edged sword

Attachment(s)

UpdateTools.ps1   479 B 1 version

I'd love a faster way to do this as well. I was just coming here to post to see if there was any way to do these in parallel rather than serially. I am seeing similar performance as the script waits for each VM to install, reboot, and then come back up and report successful before progressing to the next VM. Right now it is faster for me to start 20 by hand rather than automate it and wait nearly 3.5 hours to ensure success, and how sad is that.

I have identified a 10 minute delay in just doing the get-vm without even executing the tools upgrade

Truth is a three edged sword

I am getting the same delays. Help anyone?

Get-Vm has been a real thorn. It is a known issue or pain if I may...there is a way to speed some of it up using get-view, but I think the Get-vm needs fixed badly...

Glen