topic Re: Is it possible to login to VM via powercli? in VMware PowerCLI Discussions

Is it possible to login to VM via powercli?

samselvan — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:39:52 GMT

I have to run some scripts inside VM after start-VM , I need to login to VM.

One way is i can store my remote desktop credentials details as rdp file and invoke the .rdp file.

Is there any cmdlet available to login to Vm ?

schepp — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:55:11 GMT

Hi,

Regards

RvdNieuwendijk — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:05:53 GMT

In PowerCLI 5.5 there is a new cmdlet Open-VMConsoleWindow that you can use to open the console of a virtual machine.

rtunisi — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:14:44 GMT

you can store your credentials in a variable and use invoke-vmscript command to run it into multiple VMs, like

(This will prompt the username/password dialog)

Invoke-VMScript -VM VM01 -ScriptText { commands } -GuestCredential (Get-Credential)

if you want to use it on multiple servers, create some txt file with all vm names and use something like this:

$cred = Get-Credential

gc text.txt | % { Invoke-VMScript -VM $_ -ScriptText { commands } -GuestCredential $cred }

EDIT: all machines must have VMWare tools installed for this to work