While deploying vShield I have found the easiest way to automate the installation of the additional vShield Driver (Now called Guest Introspection Driver) is to use PowerCLI and complete through the invoke-vmscript command.
I will presume that you have PowerCLI installed, else it can be obtained from VMware.com.
*If using an x64 OS you will need to use the x86 version of PowerCLI*
Connect to your vCenter Server where *vCenterServer* is the name of your vCenter Server, I use the $Credential variable to store the credential for this session but you can skip that and use the -user and -password parameters after the connect-viserver if preferred;
$Credential = Get-Credential Connect-Viserver *vCenterServer* -Credential $Credential
The $Name variable stores the name that is input when the script is run, if you specify a wildcard * for the name this will run against all servers so be warned! In turn you can run against VM1 and VM2 with VM*.
The name is then checked using the Get-VM command to see if the server exists displaying “VM FOUND 🙂” if true or “VM NOT FOUND 🙁” if false. Until the correct name is entered the script will keep prompting for a name.
#Get Name of VM and check against vCenter
DO {
$Name = Read-Host "Enter the Name or Names using wildcard * of the VM e.g VMName*"
IF (Get-VM $Name){
$Isname = $True
Write-Output "VM FOUND :)" -Foreground GREEN
} ELSE {
$Isname = $False
Write-Warning "VM NOT FOUND! :(" -Background RED -Foreground BLACK
}
} UNTIL($Isname = $True)
The below code is only required if the hostname differs from the name of the VM.
#Only required if the name of the VM isn't the hostname (and you use AD)
#Check entered name against AD and list if found
$ComputerNames = Get-ADComputer -LDAPFilter "(name=$Name)" | Select Name
FOREACH ($Computer in $ComputerNames) {
Write-Output $Computer.Name
$VMName = Get-VM -Name $Name
Write-Host "Attempting to Mount Tools...."
}TRY{
$Mounttools = Mount-Tools -VM $VMName -ErrorAction Stop }CATCH{
Write-Warning "UNABLE TO MOUNT TOOLS"
}
Next we attempt to mount the VM tools to the VM
Get the drive letter of the VM and store in the $DriveLetter variable (I have seen this fail if the VM has WMI issues).
$DriveLetter = Get-WmiObject Win32_CDROMDrive -Credential $Credential -ComputerName $Computer.Name | Where-Object {$_.VolumeName -match "VMware Tools"} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Drive
Storing the entire script in $ScriptText to run in the Invoke-VMScript command, replace Administrator and *Password* with your local admin account credentials.
Write-Output "Running Script..."
$ScriptText = "$DriveLetter\setup64.exe /S /v ""%TEMP%\vmmsi.log""""/qn REBOOT=R ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=Hgfs,WYSE"""
#Attempt to run the script with local administrator and password
TRY{
Invoke-VMScript -VM $VMName -ScriptText $ScriptText -ScriptType bat -GuestUser Administrator -GuestPassword *Password*
} CATCH {
write-error "UNABLE TO RUN GUEST SCRIPT" -Background RED -Foreground Black
}
Entire Script available below with additional menu option, split into Functions as I attempt to learn Powershell!
I apologise to any programmers/script writers as my script writing has a lot to be improved.