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VM Creation Script Failing

I have a script that reads info from a csv file to build a VM which has always worked in the past but....

The script still builds the VM as it is supposed to without problem, but running set-vm and start-vm commands fail after with these errors. In this case I built a VM named PRDV2N3.

Any ideas???

Get-VM : 3/7/2019 11:49:04 AM   Get-VM          VM with name 'PRDV2N3 ' was not found using the specified filter(s).   

At C:\temp\keep.ps1:24 char:1

+ Get-VM -Name $($line.name) | Set-VM -memoryGB $($line.memory) -NumCpu ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (:) [Get-VM], VimException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_OutputHelper_WriteNotFoundError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.GetVM

start-vm : 3/7/2019 11:49:04 AM Start-VM                Could not find VirtualMachine with name 'PRDV2N3 '.

At C:\temp\keep.ps1:26 char:1

+ start-vm -vm $($line.name) -confirm:$false

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (PRDV2N3 :String) [Start-VM], VimException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_ObnSelector_SelectObjectByNameCore_ObjectNotFound,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdle

   ts.Commands.StartVM

start-vm : 3/7/2019 11:49:04 AM Start-VM                Value cannot be found for the mandatory parameter VM

At C:\temp\keep.ps1:26 char:1

+ start-vm -vm $($line.name) -confirm:$false

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Start-VM], VimException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.StartVM

VM Build Script

$ScriptRoot = Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path

$csvfile = "$ScriptRoot\vmbuilder.csv"

$vms2deploy = Import-Csv -Path $csvfile

#For every line in the csv variable do something:

foreach ($line in $vms2deploy) {

Get-OSCustomizationSpec -Name $($line.oscust) | New-OSCustomizationSpec -name "$($line.oscust)_$($line.name)"

Get-OSCustomizationSpec "$($line.oscust)_$($line.name)"| Get-OSCustomizationNicMapping | Set-OSCustomizationNicMapping -IpMode UseStaticIp -IpAddress $($line.ip) -SubnetMask $($line.mask) -DefaultGateway $($line.gw) -Dns $($line.dns1),$($line.dns2)

$vmhost = get-cluster $($line.cluster) | get-vmhost -state connected | Get-Random

new-vm -name $($line.name) -template $($line.template) -vmhost $vmhost -oscustomizationspec "$($line.oscust)_$($line.name)" -datastore $($line.datastore) -location $($line.folder) -DiskStorageFormat thin

Get-VM -Name $($line.name) | Set-VM -memoryGB $($line.memory) -NumCpu $($line.cpu) -confirm:$false

start-vm -vm $($line.name) -confirm:$false

Remove-OSCustomizationSpec "$($line.oscust)_$($line.name)" -confirm:$false

}

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LucD
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Do you have a blank at the end the VM name ('PRDV2N3 ' )?
Perhaps a typo in the CSV file?


Blog: lucd.info  Twitter: @LucD22  Co-author PowerCLI Reference

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LucD
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Do you have a blank at the end the VM name ('PRDV2N3 ' )?
Perhaps a typo in the CSV file?


Blog: lucd.info  Twitter: @LucD22  Co-author PowerCLI Reference

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tkutil
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UGH! I swear I checked that already, but that was the problem.

Thank you!!!

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LucD
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Don't worry, happens to me as well :smileygrin:


Blog: lucd.info  Twitter: @LucD22  Co-author PowerCLI Reference

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