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Recompose VM using vmware 5.5 power cli

How can I recompose a VM v1 with existing parent VM v2's snapshot s2 ? After referring few documents, I saw command Send-LinkedCloneRecompose for recomposing VM.

I am trying this command as follows:

$myVM = 'v1'
$clone = Get-DesktopVM -Name $myVM
$pool = Get-Pool -pool_id $clone.pool_id
$date = Get-Date
$date = $date.AddSeconds(10)
Write-Host "Recomposing" $clone.name 
Send-LinkedCloneRecompose -machine_id $clone.machine_id -parentVMPath $pool.parentVMPath -parentSnapshotPath $pool.parentVMSnapshotPath -schedule $date -forcelogoff $true |  tee-object -variable vmState

Here I am getting error as Get-DesktopVM : The term 'Get-DesktopVM' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

I am getting the same error for powercli commandlets Get-Pool and Send-LinkedCloneRecompose as well.

I am using VMware VSphere power cli 5.5 release 2 patch 1.

Can anyone please help me in understanding the problem here ?

Solution

  • I missed to add & "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\extras\PowerShell\add-snapin.ps1" before executing above commands. So the commandlets were not recognized.