Linked clones in VMware with Powershell

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  edgoad

  November 14, 2011 at 3:48 pm

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  An example of this script spinning out several VMs from the same base system

  connect-viserver VCserverName
  $vm = get-vm base_Win7
  $cloneSnap = $vm | New-Snapshot -Name "Clone Snapshot"
  $vmView = $vm | Get-View
  $cloneFolder = $vmView.parent
  $cloneSpec = new-object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec
  $cloneSpec.Snapshot = $vmView.Snapshot.CurrentSnapshot
  $cloneSpec.Location = new-object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
  $cloneSpec.Location.DiskMoveType = [Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateDiskMoveOptions]::createNewChildDiskBacking
  $vmView.CloneVM( $cloneFolder, "Win7_001", $cloneSpec)
  $vmView.CloneVM( $cloneFolder, "Win7_002", $cloneSpec)
  $vmView.CloneVM( $cloneFolder, "Win7_003", $cloneSpec)
  $vmView.CloneVM( $cloneFolder, "Win7_004", $cloneSpec)
  $vmView.CloneVM( $cloneFolder, "Win7_005", $cloneSpec)
  $vmView.CloneVM( $cloneFolder, "Win7_006", $cloneSpec)
  $vmView.CloneVM( $cloneFolder, "Win7_007", $cloneSpec)
  $vmView.CloneVM( $cloneFolder, "Win7_008", $cloneSpec)
  $vmView.CloneVM( $cloneFolder, "Win7_009", $cloneSpec)

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