Script for building VMs

Hi @HPN 

I am still working on this one but am glad to share what I have so far to assist you:

Link to CSV for creating multiple VM’s

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yvxXVAc7mn4NHrZmv02boTb4lVhV4JJK/view?usp=sharing

https://github.com/cloudcor-ntnx/ntnx-ps-advanced/blob/master/new-vm-from-csv.ps1

It essentially loads a csv files with the values necessary and then does a foreach loop on each object in the CSV. 

Hi @danny_sre 

Thanks for your quick response. Can you please allow my gmail ID: hara.nayak@gmail.com access to the google drive as you mentioned above?

For running this script do we need to have special permission in vmware or Nutanix environment. I have the full Admin access on Hypervisor level but read only access in Nutanix.

@HPN 

Based off your response I would then recommend writing the script for PowerCLI and connect to the esxi part of the environment for creating the new VM’s

https://code.vmware.com/forums/2530/vsphere-powercli#580519

$fileName = 'whatever.csv'

foreach($vmLine in (Import-Csv -Path $fileName -UseCulture)){

 $vm = New-VM -Name $vmLine.Server -VMHost $vmLine.EsxHost -Datastore $vmLine.Datastore -Template $vmLine.Template

 Get-NetworkAdapter -VM $vm | Set-NetworkAdapter -NetworkName $vmLine.Network -StartConnected

}

Hi @danny_sre 

I checked the link but how we can control the number of builds getting to a specific container?

@HPN 

The containers are mapped to the esxi host as datastores, so you would simply provide a container name that correlates to the esxi datastore:

Datastore $vmLine.Datastore