Updating the vmx configuration on multiple virtual machines

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article provides a PowerCLI script to update the vmx configuration on multiple virtual machines with these parameters:

"isolation.tools.copy.disable"="true";
"isolation.tools.paste.disable"="true";
"isolation.tools.diskShrink.disable"="true";
"isolation.tools.diskWiper.disable"="true";
"isolation.tools.connectable.disable"="true";
"isolation.tools.setGUIOptions.Enable"="false";
"log.keepOld"="10";
"log.rotateSize"="100000"

Resolution

This PowerCLI script updates the vmx configuration on multiple virtual machines:

Note: This script is available here for reference only.

$ExtraOptions = @{
"isolation.tools.copy.disable"="true";
"isolation.tools.paste.disable"="true";
"isolation.tools.diskShrink.disable"="true";
"isolation.tools.diskWiper.disable"="true";
"isolation.tools.connectable.disable"="true";
"isolation.tools.setGUIOptions.Enable"="false";
"log.keepOld"="10";
"log.rotateSize"="100000"
}

# Build the configspec using the hashtable above.
$vmConfigSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

Foreach ($Option in $ExtraOptions.GetEnumerator()) {
$OptionValue = New-Object VMware.Vim.optionvalue
$OptionValue.Key = $Option.Key
$OptionValue.Value = $Option.Value
$vmConfigSpec.extraconfig += $OptionValue
}

# Get all vm's not including templates
$VMs = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name -Filter @{"Config.Template"="false"}

# Do it!
foreach($vm in $vms){
$vm.ReconfigVM_Task($vmConfigSpec)
}


Additional Information

For more information on the vSphere PowerCLI, see Using the vSphere PowerCLI utility to manage your vSphere environment (2032946).

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