Hello all,
I'm currently working on automating our virtual machine farms using command line tools, but I am looking for some direction on how to modify some paramenters of a VM without having to go into the vSphere GUI. Things I am specificly looking for are changing the guest's perceived name on the OS level, giving the guest a static IP address along with changing the DNS entries, and bringing the guest onto a specific domain.
Our current system has a database in place where I can automatically pull this information from, but I just need a way to perform the operations on the VM. If I could mount the guest as an open file system to the host, then I could just modify some scripts on the guest to run at start up. But if it's possible, I would prefer command line operation. I've heard that PowerCLI or the vSphere command line interface might be able to do this, but I didn't really get that impression from looking at the documentation.
Thanks,
David Hilburger