Learning PowerCLI - Second Edition

Registering virtual machines

To register an existing virtual machine to your vCenter inventory, you have to specify the path to a .vmx file. A .vmx file contains the configuration for an existing virtual machine. Here are a few lines from a .vmx file:

.encoding = "UTF-8" 
config.version = "8" 
virtualHW.version = "11" 
vmci0.present = "TRUE" 
displayName = "VM4" 
floppy0.present = "FALSE" 
numvcpus = "1" 
memSize = "256" 

You typically don't modify a .vmx file with an editor, because you might break the connection to the virtual machine.

Note

For more information about modifying a .vmx file, read the VMware Knowledge Base article Tips for editing a .vmx file (1714) (available at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1714 ).

The following example will register a virtual ...