Vmware labmanager11/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Hope this helps anyone else out there! I know there's some kludgy logic in this script and I note it, but I'm a consultant/admin, not a programmer, and it works just fine. Powershell saved me so much time, I banged this out in a couple hours. Huge thanks to the VI Toolkit team! The meat of the script is probably only about 10-15 lines and makes some direct VMWare SDK accesses that the base cmdlets don't do, I've just added a ton of comments and colored output fluff. I recommend creating a service account to run the script periodically under, because it looks cool in your Virtualcenter when a bunch of cleanup tasks owned by "LabManagerCleanup" come up every 5 minutes. I set up this to run as a scheduled task on my VirtualCenter server every 5 minutes, but it can run anywhere that has the VI Toolkit and access to the VirtualCenter SSL port. If this bothers you, look up the SecureCredentials stuff in powershell. Yes, I know it is in cleartext in the script, but since it's on my VC server using a low-privilege service account and I apply strict permissions to the files there, I'm not worried. I recommend a service account but you can use "administrator" if you want. ![]() VC Username - The user to connect to VirtualCenter as. Note that the name here must match the name on your virtualcenter SSL certificate. Lab Manager Folder - Same as above but a folder under Virtual Machines and Templates ![]() Lab Manager Resource Pool - Which resource pool you want your Lab Manager VMs to reside (ex. not firewalled).įirst, edit the script and change the constants so that they match your environment: This keeps my VirtualCenter organized and puts the Lab Machines in low-end resource pools so that my production VM's still get their reserves and SLA shares.Ī VirtualCenter user with rights to browse through VirtualCenter and Move VM'sĪccess to the SSL port of your Virtualcenter server from the host you run the script (i.e. Since I don't have the luxury of investing in dedicated ESX Servers for my lab, I decided to write a script that automatically moves Lab Manager-created VM's into a specific folder and resource pool, and automatically removes undeployed Lab Manager VM's from the inventory. In the official documentation they say that you shouldn't use Lab Manager and Virtualcenter to manage the same ESX Hosts. ![]()
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