Hi,

I'd need a jumpstart for creating a domain joined W10 VM on VMWare VSphere, using Powershell.
I have a VM which was domain joined (meanwhile lost its domain trust, but that shouldn't matter I guess?), then  I used following lines

New-OSCustomizationSpec -Name $OSCustSpecName -FullName $OsCustSpecFullname -OrgName $OrgName `
-OSType Windows -ChangeSid -AdminPassword (Read-Host -AsSecureString) -Domain $Domain -DomainCredentials (Get-Credential)
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$OSSpecs = Get-OSCustomizationSpec -Name $OSCustSpecName
$VMTemplate = Get-Template -Name $VMTemplateName
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New-VM -Name $VMName -Template $VMTemplate -OSCustomizationSpec $OSSpec -ResourcePool $Resourcepool


Looks fine but just don't have much time, needs to work flawlessly and don't want reinvent warm water and going through mistakes.$
Please advise (f.e. it is a machine which will be reverted continuously to troubleshoot installs, should I set -autologon to 999999, will the KMS be contacted automtically or do I need to configure stuff, isn't there a sysprep needed or does a clone do the work etc).

All input really welcome!

J.


!! UPDATE: the VM was created succesfully, but obviously the domain join was not done, the trust with the domain is still gone, how do I achieve this (domain joined vm)?

Vsphere command line Groups.

I would like to know how many command groups are used in Vsphere. For instance Powercli by itself has many commands and scripts.
 ESXCLI has many commands also. Probably there are other Groups I do not know about and  that have many commands and their umbrellas.

So, I need to know which Groups of commands used in Vsphere environment (used with ESX hosts, Vcenter), and whether I can use just one of them, for instance Powercli group, and this will cover all I need to get information, set up new settings, Troubleshoot anything about Vsphere.


Thank you

Few Queries Regarding  Physical Memory Configuration on Virtual infra running with  vSphere 6.7

 Is it justified to use  Maximum allowed Physical  Memory on any Hardware Like We have Dell M630 running with 512 GB RAM while it can be enhanced Up to 1.5TB (24 DIMM slots): 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB/64GB DDR4 up to 2400MT/s

What should be best practice to follow here by increasing resources Like RAM/CPU or if to add more Servers  with std configuration ?

What if We need to extract Slot wise memory Detail ?

 When Using smbiosDump  running individually on Esxi using SSH but not to get the same from multiple Esxi?

Tried to setup some function using script given below..

https://psvmware.wordpress.com/tag/powercli-check-memory-dimms-for-esxi/

But when trying to run giving error like...
New-CimSession : The connection to the specified remote host was refused. Verify that the WS-Management service is
running on the remote host and configured to listen for requests on the correct port and HTTP URL
Need to fetch my existing /memory config /slot wise and best pretcie to use the Server with best available performance

Tried to locate the Hardware and Health tab form VC/Host Webclient [HTML5]..seems it is depreciated now in 6.7?

Please help to locate the required detail from multiple Host/Physical Boxes

Vsphere HA - Admission Control:

Any Expert to explain the options of the Admission Control shown below:



for instance if we put 0 in : Host  Failures Cluster tolerates
the meaning of the options in : Define host failover capacity by
Performance Degardation VM tolerates

Thank you

Disable Timeout Vcenter Vsphere Client 6.7

I have vCenter vSphere CLient 6.7 installed on Windows 2012 R2.
It times out frequently when it is inactive...I would like to disable time out.
I found help on how to diable it in VCSA appliance, but not in  vCenter vSphere CLient 6.7  on Windows

Any Help ?

Thank you

I want to download an evaluation (free) copy of the vSphere ESXi iso file for version 6.3.  I was not able to find it on VMWare.com.  Where can I find it for downloading?

Hi

I have installed a new Virtual infrastructure  and have installed vSphere 6.7.0 3
VMware tools has been installed on this server.

The default size of the Hard disk 1 is 40 GB, where the windows OS is installed. I would like to increase the space from 40GB to 100 GB.

I went to Vsphere console and -Powered off the VM - Right click the VM - Edit settings and if i expand the Hard disk 1 and i am not able to increase the  size of the hard disk here.
It show a red stop sign on the mouse cursor.

Not sure why this is happening and is there a way i can increase the space on this Hard disk?


Thanks and any help will be great.

Hi

I built a new Windows 2019 VM by cloning the Server template and when I went to configure the IP address, I was not able to see the network adapter .
I went to device manager and on the Ethernet controller, it has an exclamation mark.
Please see the snapshot, do I need to install any drivers, and do I need to choose a different adapter.

Please help any tutorial will be great.

Thanks
Lan-properties-snapshot.jpg

VCSA 6.7

I made a mistake with DNS config before confuguring VCSA  my bad.
Set up vcsa - login and DNS FQDN works in address window
However once I log in it displays as the IP address rather than the name of the vcsa ex vcsa1-67 etc.
Is there a way to change this?
Thanks!  If not we get to reinstall it again ;-)
Doesn't hurt to ask!
Thanks!

What is the difference between tags and attributes? At least in the vSphere world.

Thank you.

I have an engineer coming to upgrade software on 3 servers overnight. He will need access to only 3 x Server VM's.

Is there a way to give him access via the VShpere Web Client so he only has admin access on those 3 x server and can't see any other machines.

I can create him a temp user in AD.

I can just give him Remote Desktop Access but just in case he may need to access via VSphere.