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Is there a VMware Web Services API command to change the VLAN assigned to a Virtual Nic on a Virtual Machine in VMware
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I am looking for a way to change the Virtual LAN that is assigned to a Virtual Network card in a Virtual Machine. Currently we are starting up our VMs from templates that already have a NIC card assigned to a Virtual LAN. There are however multiple LANs available in VCenter. I am looking to see if there ia a command available in the Web Services SDK for VMware where I can dynamically instruct the Virtual Machine I started from that template to change the LAN it's Nic card is attached to. If not the Web Services API is there another solution where this can be done?
I am looking for a way to change the Virtual LAN that is assigned to a Virtual Network card in a Virtual Machine. Currently we are starting up our VMs from templates that already have a NIC card assigned to a Virtual LAN. There are however multiple LANs available in VCenter. I am looking to see if there ia a command available in the Web Services SDK for VMware where I can dynamically instruct the Virtual Machine I started from that template to change the LAN it's Nic card is attached to. If not the Web Services API is there another solution where this can be done?
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Can you elaborate on the PowerCLI scripts? Can you point me to the reference to this type or similar type of action and perhaps some example code?
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Using PowerCLI, PowerGUI and the VMware Community Pack you can change the Network the Virtual Machine is connected to, just needed to browse around.
You select the Virtual Machine, Links, Network Adaptors, Change Properties.
You select the Virtual Machine, Links, Network Adaptors, Change Properties.
So if you install the above, and connect to vSphere vCenter, you will be able to complete this with no development time.
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VMware, a software company founded in 1998, was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies. VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture. Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.
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The same is also true of vCenter Mobile Access, that does not require vSphere vCenter but does require vCMA.
This is probably possible in using PowerCLI scripts.