Virtual Machine Version upgrade

[antoniogemelli]

Hello,

I have some VM with Old Version (Get-VM | Select Name, Version)

v7, v8 and v9

I would like to upgrade Version with powershell script from a csv list, like machine who have version 7 upgrade to 8.

Thanks

[vijayrana968]

Have a look on this... upgrade vm hardware and tools with one script

You can skip tools part if dont want to upgrade tools.

[LucD]

Try like this.

It will upgrade the HW version to v8 of all VMs that are currently at v7.

Note that the VM will need a power off/poweron to actually update the HW version.

foreach($vmRow in Import-Csv vm.csv -UseCulture){

    $vm = Get-VM -Name $vmRow.Name

    if($vm.Version -eq [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.VM.VMVersion]::v7){

        Set-VM -VM $vm -Version ([VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.VM.VMVersion]::v8)

    }

}

[DanielArtur]

Hello

So i tried that out like you wrote "You can skip tools part if dont want to upgrade tools."

But it only works up to vmversion 10 (v10).

When i try a never version (13) the script fail with error message "The operation is not supported on the object".

Im using esxi 6.5 and vms are updated manually to v13 outside of the script.

Any ideas?

Import-Csv C:\xxx\xxx\\xx -UseCulture |

%{

    $vm = Get-VM $_.Name

    $poweredOn = $false

    if($vm.PowerState -ne 'PoweredOff'){

        $poweredOn = $true

        Stop-VM -VM $vm -Confirm:$false

    }

    Set-VM -VM $vm -Version ([VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.VM.VMVersion]::v12) -Confirm:$false

    if($poweredOn){

        Start-VM -VM $vm -Confirm:$false

    }

}

[LucD]

Which PowerCLI version are you using?

Only the recent version have the v13 option.

[DanielArtur]

Hello

Thanks for the stick reply lucd.

Usling version 6.5.0 r1.

Best regards

D

[LucD]

When you type in Code or the ISE the 'Set-VM -Version ' and then <Ctrl>-<Space> which options does intellisense show you?

Is v12 included?

[DanielArtur]

Hello LucD.

Yepp, v12 is included also v13 and v11.

Best Regards

Daniel

[LucD]

Is that VM running on an ESXi node that has the correct version for v12 HW?

[DanielArtur]

Hello

Yes the esxi version is 6.5 update1.

Do you maybe have another script for update of hw from a csv file that i can try out?

Best Regards

Daniel

[LucD]

Well, the code I posted earlier in this thread is rather basic, there isn't much variation possible.

But could you try the following with one of the VMs that fail (make sure it is powered off).

And attach the output.

$vmName = '<failing-vm-name>'

$vm = Get-VM -Name $vmName

$vm | Select Name,Version,

    @{N='VMHost';E={$_.VMHost.Name}},

    @{N='VMHost-Version';E={"$($_.VMHost.Version)-$($_.VMHost.Build)"}}

Set-VM -VM $vm -Version v12 -Confirm:$false -Verbose

[DanielArtur]

Hello

Thanks, i will try this out next week.

I will give you an update how i worked.

Best Regards

Daniel

[DanielArtur]

Hello LucD

So i tried out the command but i didn't worked.

Output error message..

"

VMNAME(example)     v10 hostname(example) 6.5.0-7388607

Set-VM : 2018-03-05 09:36:37    Set-VM          The operation for the entity "VMNAME(example)" failed with the following message: "The operation is not supported on the object."  

At C:\Temp\powercli\Vmtools\Test\updatehardwarenocsv.ps1:7 char:1

+ Set-VM -VM $vm -Version v12 -Confirm:$false -Verbose

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

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-VM], NotSupported

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_TaskServiceImpl_CheckServerSideTaskUpdates_OperationFailed,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.SetVM

"

Best Regards

D

[LucD]

What is the version of your vCenter?

[DanielArtur]

Hello LucD

The host is a "stand alone" host right now without connection to a vcenter.

I Just want to test the script out first before i run them in production enviroment.

/ D

[LucD]

Are the VMware Tools on that VM up to date?

You will have to update those first, see KB1010675.

[DanielArtur]

Hello LucD

So i found another thread regarding problems with set-vm cmdlets.

So i removed the msi powercli and added modules to powershell and now the script workes, Thanks!

Another thing though...

I tried the shutdown-vmguest in the script (i don't want a "hard poweroff" because of DB servers) but that didn't work out.

Do you have any ideas on this?

Thanks for your awesome help!

/ D

[LucD]

What exactly didn't work out?

[DanielArtur]

Hello

So the script looks like this.

Import-Csv C:\csv-export.csv -UseCulture |

where{$_.ToolStatus -ne [VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineToolsStatus]::toolsOk} | %{

    $vm = Get-VM $_.Name

    Update-Tools -VM $vm -NoReboot

    $poweredOn = $false

    if($vm.PowerState -ne 'PoweredOff'){

        $poweredOn = $true

        Stop-VMGuest -VM $vm -Confirm:$false

    }

    Set-VM -VM $vm -Version ([VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.VM.VMVersion]::v13) -Confirm:$false

    if($poweredOn){

        Start-VM -VM $vm -Confirm:$false

    }

}

And the error output is this

State          IPAddress            OSFullName

-----          ---------            ----------

ShuttingDown   {169.254.3.24, 17... Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)

Set-VM : 2018-03-05 13:11:57    Set-VM          The operation for the entity "vmexemple" failed with the following message: "The operation is not allowed in the current state.

"

At C:\toolandhardware.ps1:19 char:5

+     Set-VM -VM $vm -Version ([VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.VM ...

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

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-VM], InvalidState

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_TaskServiceImpl_CheckServerSideTaskUpdates_OperationFailed,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.SetVM

Start-VM : 2018-03-05 13:11:57  Start-VM                The operation for the entity "vmexemple" failed with the following message: "The attempted operation cannot be performe

d in the curre

nt state (Powered on)."

At C:\toolandhardware.ps1:23 char:9

+         Start-VM -VM $vm -Confirm:$false

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

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

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_TaskServiceImpl_CheckServerSideTaskUpdates_OperationFailed,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.StartVM

So what i can think of is that i tries to run hw update and power on before the server is poweroff (checked task log on the esxi host)

Any ideas?

/ Daniel

[LucD]

The Stop-VMGuest cmdlet will ask the guest OS to shutdown, but once that is done, it returns and the script continues.

The best option would be to built in a loop where the script waits till the VM is actually powered off.

Something like this

Stop-VMGuest -VM $vm -Confirm:$false

while($vm.PowerState -ne 'PoweredOff'){

    sleep 10

    $vm = Get-VM -Name $vm.Name

}