Update Virtual Hardware using SDK?

[piuhapofuhpaosf]

We're converting from VC 2.5 to vSphere 4.0, and I'm curious to know if it's possible to automate the process of updating the virtual hardware of our Virtual Machines from version 4 to version 7 so that we can start using them in a vSphere environment with all the bells and whistles. To be clear, I'm trying to find out if there is a way to use the Perl API to duplicate the results I would get by right-clicking on a VM in the VC and selecting "Update Virtual Hardware".

[lamw · Accepted solution]

Yep, you'll need to get a reference to an offline VM and then call the method UpgradeVM_Task and specify the version, and in this case it'll be 7

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William Lam

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[piuhapofuhpaosf]

Outstanding! I can't believe in all my browsing of the API Docs that I didn't notice this method. Many thanks.

[lamw]

Here's a Perl script that'll help with the upgrade process:

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William Lam

VMware vExpert 2009

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VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators

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Twitter: @lamw

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