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vCloud vApp and VM Backups

Introduction

vCloudBackups provides a way to hot clone VMs and vApps running in a Virtual Datacenter for the purpose of local backups.

This release should work with any vCloud Provider running 1.5 or 5.1.

Description

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><vcloud:EdgeGateway
    xmlns:vcloud="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
    name="gateway"
    operationKey="operationKey">
    <vcloud:Description>Edge Gateway description</vcloud:Description>
    <vcloud:Configuration>
        <vcloud:BackwardCompatibilityMode>false</vcloud:BackwardCompatibilityMode>
        <vcloud:GatewayBackingConfig>compact</vcloud:GatewayBackingConfig>
        <vcloud:GatewayInterfaces>
            <vcloud:GatewayInterface>

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$vms = get-civm
$objects = @()

foreach($vm in $vms)
{
 $hardware = $vm.ExtensionData.GetVirtualHardwareSection()
 $diskMB = (($hardware.Item | where {$_.resourcetype.value -eq "17"}) | %{$_.hostresource[0].anyattr[0]."#text"} | Measure-Object -Sum).sum
 $row = New-Object PSObject -Property @{"vapp" = $vm.vapp; "name"=$vm.Name;"cpuCount"=$vm.CpuCount;"memoryGB"=$vm.MemoryGB;"storageGB"=($diskMB/1024)}
 $objects += $row
}

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#Get the dvSwitch I want to edit
$dvswitch = Get-VirtualSwitch name dvSwitch -distributed | Get-View

#create the spec, note the object type
$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.DVSConfigSpec
$spec.configVersion = $dvswitch.Config.ConfigVersion
$spec.defaultPortConfig = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPortSetting
$spec.defaultPortConfig.uplinkTeamingPolicy = New-Object VMware.Vim.VmwareUplinkPortTeamingPolicy

#policy

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$datastore = "MyDatastore"
$viserver = "MyVIServer"

# add PowerCLI snapin
Add-PSSnapin vmware.vimautomation.core -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue

# Connect to VI Server
Connect-VIServer $viserver

# Get the datastore we want to clean up

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function Export-VM
{
    param
    (
        [parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true)] $vm,
        [parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String] $destination
    )

    $ovftoolpaths = ("C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware OVF Tool\ovftool.exe","C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool\ovftool.exe")
    $ovftool = ''

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  number: 12345
  array_of_bool: [on, off, true, false, yes, no]
  ruby symbol: :symbol
  array:
    - item one
    - item two

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