Objective: In this blog, we will automate all the possibilities of Horizon view implementation. The below mentioned commands are tested in development prior to production release..

Scenario: The corporate Desktop and application team coordinated to obtain base VM with required configurations. As a View admin, we need to locate VMs into appropriate cluster (10 VMs into one cluster) considering design. Also, to setup Automated linked clone view pool, we need to assign vlan, obtain snapshot and subsequent view pool creation should be automated.

Steps:

1. Locate Base VMs into Appropriate cluster / Host
2. Assign relevant VLAN to located Base VMs considered as Golden Image
3. Create snapshot for Base VMs
4. Create View Pool
5. Entitlement of users

1.       Locate Base VMs into Appropriate cluster / Host

Get-HardDisk -VM ‘Base1’

move-vm  ‘Base1’ -Destination esxi01 -datastore PRD-VDI -diskstorageformat Thin

Get-HardDisk -VM ‘Base1’’

2.       Assign relevant VLAN to located Base VMs considered as Golden Image

$vms1 = Import-CSV C:\SCRIPT\VDNet-01.csv

$vms1

foreach ($vm in $vms1){

Get-VM $vm.name | Get-NetworkAdapter | Set-NetworkAdapter -NetworkName VDINet-01 -Confirm:$false

}

3.       Create snapshot for Base VMs

cls

$vms = Import-CSV C:\SCRIPT\VIEW\selvavms.csv

foreach ($vm in $vms){

$base = $vm.name

$y=[string]::Join(“-“,$base ,”A”)

New-Snapshot -VM $base -Name $y

}

4.       Create View Pool

$vms = Import-CSV C:\Scriptview\selvavms.csv

foreach ($vm in $vms){

$base = $vm.name

$snapnm = $vm.snap

$user=’-s.vdi.build’

$poolid =$vm.poolidd

$pooldec = $vm.dispname

$pooldec

$ds = $vm.datastore

$npx = “$base{n:fixed=2}”

$parenvm = “/xxxx/vm/APAC/BASE/$base”

$ou = “OU=VDI,OU=Virtuals,OU=Workstations,OU=VDI01”

$rs = $vm.res+”/Resources”

$rs

get-viewvc -servername Vcen01.vra.local | get-composerdomain -user $user | Get-composerdomain -domain vra.local | Add-AutomaticLinkedCLonePool -pool_id $poolid -displayName $pooldec -namePrefix $npx -parentVMPath $parenvm -parentSnapshotPath  $snapnm -vmFolderPath /xxxx/vm/xxx -resourcePoolPath $rs -datastoreSpecs $ds -organizationalUnit $ou -minimumcount 2 -maximumCount 5 -headroomcount 2 -powerpolicy Alwayson

}