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<a href="http://www.wooditwork.com/2010/08/13/tracking-down-those-connected-cd-roms-with-powercli/" rel="ugc">http://www.wooditwork.com/2010/08/13/tracking-down-those-connected-cd-roms-with-powercli/</a><br />
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found this. going to try it
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Scripts and RVtools!<br />
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if you've got many hosts, that's a PITA!<br />
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Management is performed via vCenter Server not hosts, in a large environment!
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Thanks, Andrew. I just searched for and found RVTools. Looks awesome and I haven't even used it yet. I do get management through vCenter but just before I ran the command to search for connected CD drives I realized that I only needed this info for the one host I was putting into maintenance mode to upgrade so rather than run it against vCenter (about 450 VMs), I figured I would just directly connect to the host for the info I needed.
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Always disconnect floppies and cdroms, after use!
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Preaching to the choir! Snapshots are just as poorly managed but I am trying to change that too - but I am new here so... Too many people with too much privilege to VMs. <br />
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New company for me. Several managers and a few directors. Unfortunately, most can create snapshots in their respective dept VMs (software, engineering, business services, web services, as well as IT). I have a basic script that shows me VM name, snapshot name, creator, create date, days old, description, and size. Unfortunately, most don't show a creator so I need to find the dept then the VM and hopefully figure out who owns the VM so I can then contact them to get info on the snapshot. <br />
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Anyway...
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Time for a meeting, with a projector, and some VMware Education on Best Practice!
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Indeed! Have a good one, and thanks for all of the help over the years.
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Is there a way to determine which VMs on a host have a CD drive connected besides going to each VM? A host here will have between 40 and 150 VMs so it's a pain to go to each VM.<br />
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My reason for this is that when I do upgrades I need to put the host into maintenance mode and undoubtedly there will be some using a CD drive. This prevents vMotion but I don't know until the VM list shows the VMs left that couldn't be migrated. I then need to go to each one and see if it is due to the CD drive. Once confirmed, I need to disconnect the CD drive to continue.
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Is there a way to determine which VMs on a host have a CD drive connected besides going to each VM? A host here will have between 40 and 150 VMs so it's a pain to go to each VM.

My reason for this is that when I do upgrades I need to put the host into maintenance mode and undoubtedly there will be some using a CD drive. This prevents vMotion but I don't know until the VM list shows the VMs left that couldn't be migrated. I then need to go to each one and see if it is due to the CD drive. Once confirmed, I need to disconnect the CD drive to continue.

Is there a way to determine which VMs on a host have a CD drive connected besides going to each VM?

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