Automation

   Dear All,

How to connect mulitple esx, i am writing  a script to connect multiple esx at one time and get vmhost detials.

i tried like this in my script .

$esx = (Get-Content "C:\Desktop\vmlist.txt") Connect-VIServer $esx

how to connect with credentials . please guide me to resolve this thread.

You can do

$esx = Get-Content "C:\Desktop\vmlist.txt"

Connect-VIServer $esx

but that is without the credentials.

Do you have the same credentials for each host ?

yes lucd for all esx i have same credentials.

Then you should be able to do

$esx = Get-Content "C:\Desktop\vmlist.txt"

Connect-VIServer $esx -User YourUser -Password YourPassword

To avoid having the password in clear text, you can also use the Credential parameter

$esx = Get-Content "C:\Desktop\vmlist.txt"

Connect-VIServer $esx -Credential $cred

There are many ways to get the credentials into the $cred variable..

Alan discusses the VICredentialStore in his Back to Basics: Connecting to vCenter or a vSphere Host post.

Thanks lucd,

Its working great. if you are free kindly answer my previous post.

You mean this post Re: ESX / DATASTORE details in inventory list. ?

I'm pretty sure Matt you will reply to your questions when he is online (remember the timezones :smileygrin:)

yes :-) i am trying from yesterday, i dnt know why the empty spaces coming. in the ip field for most of the esx iam getting the same. :-(