Add my own custom properties and populate them with powershell in VMM2012
I have made a powershell script function to update information about what VLAN and IP the VM´s have. This for the IT Admin to easily see in the VMM 2012 Console. Of course the function can be customized to populate any other information available for the VM´s, maybe you want to display create date or something else that is not in the standard properties and you do not want to use the pre-made custom# .
I am using the Get-IPAddress from Ben Wilkinson, This requires that the VMM server can resolve the IP of the VM´s from a DNS.
If I do not have an DNS or the VLAN info is not stored, i can via the parameters update the properties by -IP or -VLANid.
As you can see on this screen dump, by default i only have custom#, to add my own i have to click on “Manage Custom Properties”
Here i press “Create” and add a name and optionally a description
Then when i have created the custom properties i want i add them,
Then it looks like this,
Now the powershell function comes into play when i am going to populate these fields with information.
function Set-CustomValue{ # Function to add custom data on VMs # # Niklas Akerlund /RTS 2012-02-18 param ( [Parameter(Position=0,Mandatory=$true,HelpMessage="A virtual machine pleaze", ValueFromPipeline=$True)] $VM, $VLANid = "", $IP = "" ) . .\Get-IPAddress.ps1 $VM = Get-SCVirtualMachine $VM $CustomIP = Get-SCCustomProperty -Name "IP" $CustomVLAN = Get-SCCustomProperty -Name "VLAN" if ($IP -eq ""){ $IP = Get-IPAddress -HostName $VM.Name } if ($VLANid -eq ""){ $VMnics = $VM | Get-SCVirtualNetworkAdapter if($VMnics.Count -ne $null){ foreach ($VMnic in $VMnics){ $VLANid = $VLANid + $VMnic.VlanID + " " } Set-SCCustomPropertyValue -InputObject $VM -CustomProperty $CustomVLAN -Value $VLANid }else{ Set-SCCustomPropertyValue -InputObject $VM -CustomProperty $CustomVLAN -Value $VMnics.VlanID } }else { Set-SCCustomPropertyValue -InputObject $VM -CustomProperty $CustomVLAN -Value $VLANid } if($IP -ne ""){ Set-SCCustomPropertyValue -InputObject $VM -CustomProperty $CustomIP -Value $IP } }
a screendump of my powershell console, as you can see I am using the (Get-SCVMHostCluster).Nodes to get all virtual machines on these, also i am using a foreach (%) to run the population on each VM.
And this is how it looks in the VMM console,