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The figure below shows the flow between cloning a production environment to be re-used as pre-production and the environment being stopped and removed - using the scripts in UKCloud Github repository. You can access download, installation and reference documentation on the VMware Developer portal. VMware vSphere PowerCLI is a command-line interface (CLI) tool for automating vSphere and vCloud management. Theres no need to first unprotect them, the delete command will first unprotect and then delete the objects, as you can see in the image blow.
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It is also possible to delete the objects. This script stops the vApp and then deletes it from the catalogue specified.Įxecute the scripts using VMware vSphere PowerCLI. After unprotecting the objects you can manage them in the vSphere Client.
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When you no longer require the cloned vApp, there's a remove PowerCLI script that provides an automated way of removing the cloned environment. If you select this option, the script deploys the vApp. The script also provides an option for deployment once it has cloned the vApp. The example script clones the specified vApp into an existing catalogue within the appropriate VDC. We've provided an example of a PowerCLI script to clone and remove a vApp on UKCloud's GitHub repository: You can plug the PowerCLI scripts into various different configuration tools, such as Puppet or Chef, and also integrate them into orchestration tools, such as Jenkins and Ansible. Check frequently for additions and updates to these release notes.
#Vsphere no clone option update#
This article guides you through the scripts required to automate the process of cloning, as well as removing the cloned vApp once it's no longer required. Build 7397310 is the 6.5 Update 1d release of the vSphere Command-Line Interface (vCLI). To perform the cloning efficiently, you need to use a PowerCLI script.
#Vsphere no clone option serial number#
A good use case for this method is for utilising like for like copies of production for pre-production environments. The two most important fingerprint characteristics - the physical hard drive serial number and the physical motherboard ID - are not accessible to software. There's a manual GUI option where you can copy a vApp, however this can be a lengthy process if there are number of vApps needing to be copied over. You can clone a vApp whilst it's running as long as there's enough storage available on the source storage profiles associated with the existing vApp.