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on the esxi web interface, when clicking "edit settings" on a guest, I get the following error. When I click on the "Details" button I get this. This is the esxi version I'm using And I'm using the latest Chrome Any way to fix this? Thanks

I am using this code (courtesy of LucD) to find a cluster's parent. $cl = Get-View -ViewType ClusterComputeResource -Property Name,Parent $dc = Get-View -Id (Get-view -Id $cl.Parent -Property Name,Parent).Parent -Property Name $dc.Name I want to modify this in a way that it will give me a host's parent. I tried it like this, but no luck, because $cluster.name is always "host" $hosts = Get-View -ViewType HostSystem -Property Name,Parent $cluster = Get-View -Id (Get-view -Id $hosts.Parent -Property Name,Parent).Parent -Property Name $cluster.Name How can I achieve this?

Hello Using powercli, preferably get-view (because of the speed), what is the fastest way of finding out, in which cluster a vm is located? I'll be processing 3000 machines, so I need a way to do this fast. Thanks

I need to find a VM Guest's last boot time. The machine running the PowerCli script and the VMGuest are on the same vCenter, but in isolated network segments. So I can't use Powershell to run Get-WmiObject or Get-CimInstance. And I would really prefer to avoid Invoke-VMscript. I haven't had much luck with it. How can I get a VMGuest's last boot time by using PowerCli cmdlets?

I am creating a new customization specification using this command: New-OSCustomizationSpec -OSType Linux -Name "lnx_spec_tmp" -Domain "domain.name" -DnsSuffix "dns.suffix" -DnsServer $dns This works great, but doesn't set the timezone. So I change it to this: New-OSCustomizationSpec -OSType Linux -Name "lnx_spec_tmp" -Domain "domain.name" -DnsSuffix "dns.suffix" -DnsServer $dns -TimeZone 130 Now, when I run it, I get a prompt for "Fullname", so I change it to this: New-OSCustomizationSpec -OSType Linux -Name "lnx_spec_tmp" -Domain "domain.name" -DnsSuffix "dns.suffix" -DnsServer $dns -TimeZone 130 -FullName "fullnamehere" Now, when I run it, I get a prompt for "OrgName", so I change it to this: New-OSCustomizationSpec -OSType Linux -Name "lnx_spec_tmp" -Domain "domain.name" -DnsSuffix "dns.suffix" -DnsServer $dns -TimeZone 130 -FullName "fullnamehere" -OrgName "orgnamehere" And now I get the error: New-OSCustomizationSpec : 06/07/2017 18:30:06    New-OSCustomizationSpec        You must specify only parameters that belong to the same parameter set, Windows or Linux.    At line:1 char:1 + New-OSCustomizationSpec -OSType Linux -Name "lnx_spec_tmp" -Domain "domain.name" ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-OSCustomizationSpec], InvalidArgument     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_NewCustomizationSpec_DoWork_WrongParameterSet,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.NewCustomizationSpec What I'm I doing wrong here?

I want to buy a NAS box for a home lab. Either QNAP or Synology or any of the other low end brands. I'll connect it to an ESXi server using iSCSI. What is the one  spec I should be looking for, so I would have adequate speed when running the VMs on the NAS? So far I was looking for "iSCSI write to target" speeds here​ Is this the spec I should be looking for? I won't have many VMs. Maybe 10 or 15, and they won't be really writing all the time. So what's important when running VMs on a NAS? What's the most important spec I should be looking for?

Hi, I need to get Maximum, Minimum and Average CPU & Memory usage per cluster. For a specific amount of time. for example a week. Currently I am using this: foreach($vmHost in Get-VMHost){   $hoststat = "" | Select HostName, MemMax, MemAvg, MemMin, CPUMax, CPUAvg, CPUMin   $hoststat.HostName = $vmHost.name   $statcpu = Get-Stat -Entity ($vmHost)-start (get-date).AddDays(-7) -Finish (Get-Date)-MaxSamples 100 -stat cpu.usage.average   $statmem = Get-Stat -Entity ($vmHost)-start (get-date).AddDays(-7) -Finish (Get-Date)-MaxSamples 100 -stat mem.usage.average   $cpu = $statcpu | Measure-Object -Property value -Average -Maximum -Minimum   $mem = $statmem | Measure-Object -Property value -Average -Maximum -Minimum   $hoststat.CPUMax = $cpu.Maximum   $hoststat.CPUAvg = $cpu.Average   $hoststat.CPUMin = $cpu.Minimum   $hoststat.MemMax = $mem.Maximum   $hoststat.MemAvg = $mem.Average   $hoststat.MemMin = $mem.Minimum   $allhosts += $hoststat } $allhosts | Select HostName, MemMax, MemAvg, MemMin, CPUMax, CPUAvg, CPUMin | Export-Csv $outputfile -noTypeInformation This though gives me the information I want, per host, not per cluster. How can I get this information per cluster? Thanks

I am currently using the script below to perform hardware checks on all the esxi's. Today I found out that one of the esxi's has a problem with a hard disk, as shown in the attached screen shot. Yet, the script did not report any issues with that server. How can I modify this script, to get more reliable hardware status results? foreach($esx in Get-VMHost){     Write-Host "Checking $esx" -ForegroundColor Yellow     (Get-View -Id $esx.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.HealthStatusSystem).Runtime.SystemHealthInfo.NumericSensorInfo |     where{$_.HealthState.Label -notmatch 'Green|Unknown' -and $_.Name -notmatch 'Rollup'} |     Select @{N='Host';E={$esx.Name}},Name,@{N='Health';E={$_.HealthState.Label}} | Format-Table         (Get-View -Id $esx.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.HealthStatusSystem).Runtime.HardwareStatusInfo.MemoryStatusInfo |     where{$_.Status.Label -notmatch 'Green|Unknown'} | Select @{N='Host';E={$esx.Name}},Name,@{N='Health';E={$_.Status.Label}} | Format-Table     (Get-View -Id $esx.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.HealthStatusSystem).Runtime.HardwareStatusInfo.CpuStatusInfo |     where{$_.Status.Label -notmatch 'Green|Unknown'} | Select @{N='Host';E={$esx.Name}},Name,@{N='Health';E={$_.Status.Label}} | Format-Table     (Get-View -Id $esx.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.HealthStatusSystem).Runtime.HardwareStatusInfo.StorageStatusInfo |     where{$_.Status.Label -notmatch 'Green|Unknown'} | Select @{N='Host';E={$esx.Name}},Name,@{N='Health';E={$_.Status.Label}} | Format-Table     }