Combine 3 x scripts with a foreach?

[Ed Fraser]

Hello all,

These all work individually.  I'd like to have 1 script that does all of this.   

My ultimate goal would be to combine these 3 in this order: 

1. VMtools first with no reboot.
2. Time settings advance parameters add no reboot. 
3. Upgrade HW flag w/reboot. 

The reboot at the end would finalize everything.  Instead of multiple reboots with separate scripts. 

Again all 3 of these work separately.  But I have to manually reboot.  And there's no for each loop on the time sync script.

[LucD]

Try something like this.
The Guest OS is rebooted at the end.

$ExtraValues = @{

    "tools.syncTime"=0;

    "time.synchronize.continue"=0;

    "time.synchronize.restore"=0;

    "time.synchronize.resume.disk"=0;

    "time.synchronize.shrink"=0;

    "time.synchronize.tools.startup"=0;

    "time.synchronize.tools.enable"=0;

    "time.synchronize.resume.host"=0

}

$vmConfigSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

$ExtraValues.GetEnumerator() | %{ 

    $extra = New-Object VMware.Vim.optionvalue

    $extra.Key=$_.Key

    $extra.Value=$_.Value

    $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig += $extra

}

$vmConfigSpec.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo = New-Object -TypeName VMware.Vim.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo

$vmConfigSpec.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.UpgradePolicy = “always”

$vmConfigSpec.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.VersionKey = “vmx-13”

Get-Datacenter -name Testing | Get-Folder -name "Testing" |

Get-Vm -PipelineVariable vm |

ForEach-Object -Process {

    # Script 2

    if($vm.ExtensionData.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus2 -eq [VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineToolsVersionStatus]::guestToolsNeedUpgrade){

        Update-Tools -NoReboot -VM $vm

    }      

    # Script 1 + 3

    $vm.ExtensionData.ReconfigVM($vmConfigSpec)

    Restart-VMGuest -VM $vm -Confirm:$false

}

[Ed Fraser]

I finally got around to testing this!  Phew what a week.  Anyway it appears the VMtools upgrade part is not kicking off.  I threw a pause in between and it still isn't kicking off tools upgrade.  Hmmmm. 

[LucD]

Did you check that the ToolsVersionStatus2 actually says that an upgrade is needed?

[Ed Fraser]

Hi LucD thanks again for your help on this. Just wondering...  how would I query a Datacenter in vCenter to tell me if any VMs are missing the following parameters?

$ExtraValues = @{

"tools.syncTime"=0;

"time.synchronize.continue"=0;

"time.synchronize.restore"=0;

"time.synchronize.resume.disk"=0;

"time.synchronize.shrink"=0;

"time.synchronize.tools.startup"=0;

"time.synchronize.tools.enable"=0;

"time.synchronize.resume.host"=0 }

[LucD]

Did the VMware Tools upgrade part work after all?

[Ed Fraser]

Yes thank you again sir!  It worked excellent.  Although for some reason I wasn't successful at combining the Tools script with the 2 x part HW update one.  They work great separately. 

Still working through the 1k VM upgrades though.  About half done.  Change controls etc. 

During the cleanup phase I'm looking to run a query to see if any VMs are "missing" the time sync parameters.  That way I can update any stragglers. 

[LucD]

You could do something like this

$dcName = 'MyDC'

$ExtraValues = @{

    "tools.syncTime"=0

    "time.synchronize.continue"=0

    "time.synchronize.restore"=0

    "time.synchronize.resume.disk"=0

    "time.synchronize.shrink"=0

    "time.synchronize.tools.startup"=0

    "time.synchronize.tools.enable"=0

    "time.synchronize.resume.host"=0

}

Get-Datacenter -Name $dcName | Get-VM -PipelineVariable vm |

ForEach-Object -Process {

    $obj = [ordered]@{

        VM = $vm.Name

    }

    $ExtraValues.Keys | ForEach-Object -Process {

        $obj.Add($_,'missing')

    }

    Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity $vm -Name @($ExtraValues.Keys) -PipelineVariable setting |

    ForEach-Object -Process {

        if($setting.Value -eq $ExtraValues[$setting.Name]){

            $obj[$setting.Name] = 'ok'

        }

        else{

            $obj[$setting.Name] = $setting.Value

        }

    }

    New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property $obj

}

[Ed Fraser]

Thanks LucD.  Does this modify/add the values if missing?  Looking to just create a list of ones that have it missing.  This way I can plan a change control event with my master list of stragglers. 

[LucD]

No, this snippet answered your "... run a query to see if any VMs are "missing" the time sync parameters" questoin.

You could run this after the 1st script that does the actual changes

[Ed Fraser]

Awesome thanks again!

[Ed Fraser]

How would I add only "powered on" VMs to this?

Works excellent. 

[LucD]

You can use a Where-clause for that

Get-Datacenter -Name $dcName | Get-VM -PipelineVariable vm |

where{$_.PowerState -eq 'PoweredOn'} |

ForEach-Object -Process {