I was able to figure out the command to disconnect the network adapter for “connected” and “connect at power on” for a single vm using :

get-vm xyz | get-networkadpater | set-networkadapter -connected:$false -startconnected:$false

 

But i need to run this in a script from a csv for about 200 VMs. I’m only concerned with disconnecting at this point and time.

 

I tried modifying a previous script that I had but I’m still new to building scripts. I have attached the script I’m trying to reuse. If anyone could help, I would greatly appreciate it. When running the script it throws an error saying Get-NetworkAdapter is not a proper cmdlet etc..

 

# Import VMs from csv

$VMS = Import-Csv $csvfile

Out-Log “VMs to be created: $totalVMs” “Yellow”

 

# Check to ensure csv is populated

If ($totalVMs -lt 1) {

    Out-Log “`nError: No entries found in VMs.csv” “Red”

    Out-Log “Exiting…`n” “Red”

    Exit

}

 

# Show input and ask for confirmation, unless -auto was used

If (!$auto) {

    $newVMs | Out-GridView -Title “VMs to be Updated”

    $continue = Read-Host “`nContinue (y/n)?”

    If ($continue -notmatch “y”) {

        Out-Log “Exiting…” “Red”

        Exit

    }

}

 

# Connect to vCenter server

If ($vcenter -eq “”) {$vcenter = Read-Host “`nEnter vCenter server FQDN or IP”}

 

Try {

    Out-Log “`nConnecting to vCenter – $vcenter`n`n” “Yellow”

    Connect-VIServer $vcenter -EA Stop | Out-Null

} Catch {

    Out-Log “`r`n`r`nUnable to connect to $vcenter” “Red”

    Out-Log “Exiting…`r`n`r`n” “Red”

    Exit

}

 

 

# VMs to be updated

foreach ($vm in $VMS){

 

 

      #$VM = $vm.vm

 

  Get-VM $vm.vm | Get-NetworkAdpater | Set-NetworkAdpater -connected:$false startconnected:$false

 

 

}

Hello.

I have a problem using a GPU hardware (NVIDIA Tesla K80) in an HP blade.

Since vGPU drivers are not available for this NVIDIA we tried the pass through configuration reported in this blog: https://cto.vmware.com/gpgpu-computing-with-the-nvidia-k80-on-vmware-vsphere-6/ however the full config is not working in our installation, when applied to a Windows 10 Pro, the VM no longer boots. When using just pciPassthru.use64bitMMIO=”TRUE” config line, I can detect the new hardware in Win10 VM, but NVIDIA instalation of drivers “356.54-tesla-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe” never completes.

I also tried to install NVIDIA drivers in an ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64, but the VM was destroyed in this process (was unbootable after the installation).

 

I had also previous problems that can be related:

Our blade also has an “HP P440ar RAID controller” problem, https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2110557 and we opted to install ESXi software VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-2494585-HP-600.9.3.30.2-Jun2015.iso

since we don’t have much experience in building custom images.

 

Tried also to file a VMWare support ticket, but the SnS is assigned to the institution that I work for. In My VMware account can’t file the ticket because I don’t have any product registrations.

I have all the SnS information (email info of Service Activation), but don’t know how to use this info for my account.

 

Any help?

Hello,

 

I have a question that I thought was very simple but I probably am missing something.

 

I would like to create some kind of self-service test environment in my VCenter. Of course, I would like to isolate this environment from the rest of my network. The simplest and safest way would be to dedicate a host for that and physically limit its access to the network via firewall, however this is not possible in my case. 

This means that I will have to allow people to fully control the VM creation/modification in a resource pool, including adding/removing/editing network cards. However I want to restrict them to some specific network cards (which are attributed to specific VSwitches).

 

For example, let’s say I have sveral network configurations for : LAN, INTERNET, DMZ, HOST-ONLY.

How can I give full access rights on a resource pool without allowing access to LAN and DMZ when editing VM settings ?

 

It’s probably very simple but I cannot figure it out by myself.

After installation of Ubuntu 16.10 x64, I get the “CPU has been disabled by the guest OS” during the boot sequence.  Happened with the beta, too.  Same guest OS works just fine with Hyper-V.  16.04 installs and boots correctly.  Using Workstation 12.5.  There’s some kind of kernel panic happening, but I can’t capture it.  syslog and kern.log are empty in the /var/log/ path when I drop to a terminal from recovery mode.

 

Anyone else having this problem?

 

2016-10-13T23:04:05.116-05:00| svga| I125: SWBScreen: Screen 0 Destroyed: xywh(0, 0, 720, 400) flags=0x3

2016-10-13T23:04:05.116-05:00| svga| I125: SWBScreen: Screen 1 Defined: xywh(0, 0, 640, 480) flags=0x2

2016-10-13T23:04:05.129-05:00| vcpu-1| I125: DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : capacity=41943040 logical sector size=512

2016-10-13T23:04:05.130-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: SCSI DEVICE (scsi0:0): MODE SENSE(6) for unsupported page 0x8

2016-10-13T23:04:05.130-05:00| vcpu-1| I125: DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : capacity=41943040 logical sector size=512

2016-10-13T23:04:05.130-05:00| vcpu-1| I125: SCSI DEVICE (scsi0:0): MODE SENSE(6) for unsupported page 0x8

2016-10-13T23:04:05.132-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : capacity=41943040 logical sector size=512

2016-10-13T23:04:05.132-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: SCSI DEVICE (scsi0:0): MODE SENSE(6) for unsupported page 0x8

2016-10-13T23:04:05.402-05:00| svga| I125: SWBScreen: Screen 1 Destroyed: xywh(0, 0, 640, 480) flags=0x2

2016-10-13T23:04:05.404-05:00| svga| I125: SVGA-ScreenMgr: Screen type changed to ScreenTarget

2016-10-13T23:04:05.404-05:00| svga| I125: SWBScreen: Screen 1 Defined: xywh(0, 0, 800, 600) flags=0x2

2016-10-13T23:04:05.405-05:00| svga| I125: SWBScreen: Screen 1 Destroyed: xywh(0, 0, 800, 600) flags=0x2

2016-10-13T23:04:05.405-05:00| svga| I125: SWBScreen: Screen 1 Defined: xywh(0, 0, 800, 600) flags=0x2

2016-10-13T23:04:09.308-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: SCSI scsi0:0: Unsupported command *UNKNOWN (0x85)* issued. –ok

2016-10-13T23:04:09.308-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: SCSI scsi0:0: Unsupported command *UNKNOWN (0x85)* issued. –ok

2016-10-13T23:04:09.349-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x606] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.502-05:00| svga| I125: SWBScreen: Screen 1 Destroyed: xywh(0, 0, 800, 600) flags=0x2

2016-10-13T23:04:09.517-05:00| svga| I125: SWBScreen: Screen 1 Defined: xywh(0, 0, 800, 600) flags=0x2

2016-10-13T23:04:09.518-05:00| svga| I125: SWBScreen: Screen 1 Destroyed: xywh(0, 0, 800, 600) flags=0x2

2016-10-13T23:04:09.518-05:00| svga| I125: SWBScreen: Screen 1 Defined: xywh(0, 0, 800, 600) flags=0x2

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x1b1] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x1a2] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x17] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=4

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0xee] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x1a2] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=2

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x19c] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x1a2] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=3

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x17] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=5

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0xee] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=2

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x1a2] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=4

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-1| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x19c] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-1| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x1a2] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-1| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x17] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=3

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-1| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0xee] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.520-05:00| vcpu-1| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x1a2] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=2

2016-10-13T23:04:09.583-05:00| vcpu-1| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x60d] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.587-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x1a2] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=5

2016-10-13T23:04:09.671-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x611] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.671-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x639] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.671-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x641] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.671-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x619] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.946-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x1b1] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464752 count=2

2016-10-13T23:04:09.946-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x60d] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.946-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x3f8] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.946-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x3f9] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.946-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x3fa] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.946-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x630] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.946-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x631] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:09.946-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: GetMSR: unknown MSR[0x632] (read as zero): rip=0xffffffffa9464712 count=1

2016-10-13T23:04:10.332-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: APIC THERMLVT write: 0x10000

2016-10-13T23:04:10.332-05:00| vcpu-1| I125: APIC THERMLVT write: 0x10000

2016-10-13T23:04:10.332-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: Vix: [2760 vmxCommands.c:7301]: VMAutomation_HandleCLIHLTEvent. Do nothing.

2016-10-13T23:04:10.332-05:00| vcpu-0| I125: MsgHint: msg.monitorevent.halt

2016-10-13T23:04:10.332-05:00| vcpu-0| I125+ The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.

2016-10-13T23:04:10.332-05:00| vcpu-0| I125+ —————————————