First of thanks for wonderfull script, I am able to deploy the multiple vm by this script but also also getting some error. I am not sure why these error are coming, is it possible to get some infomation ?

Creating
vmtest01001
New-VM : 10/27/2011 5:40:48 PM New-VM Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.
At C:\Users\gudhillo\AppData\Local\Temp\1d2ba134-a7e1-440b-9d45-c1e30bbc396e.ps1:32 char:7
+ New-VM <<<< -Name $string -Template $(get-template $strTemplate) -location (get-folder $strLocation) -pool (get-resourcepool $strPool) -VMHost $(Get-VMHos
t $strDestinationHost) -Datastore $(Get-Datastore $strDatastore) -OSCustomizationSpec $(Get-OSCustomizationSpec $strCustomSpec)
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [New-VM], VimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.NewVM

Regards
Gurjit Dhillon

You could have an ESXi and a vCenter VM on your physical machine then use this script then talks to the vCenter (which controls the vmESXi) and create a bunch of x86 VMs that would run inside the vmESXi VM – that would work, just doesn’t work with x64 VMs.

HTH

i have PC with 8Gb memory but due to h/w incompaitability i am unable to install esx on thats, so can i run ESXi on Vmware wks(on win7) and then create mutiple ESi host inside Main ESXi(which will be running on vmware wks)

I have a couple of suggestions that would make the code a tad more elegant, as follows:

#Variables
$NameVM =”vmNested-”
$NameTemplate =”TPL – vmNested-01″
$Datacenter=”v.T.A.R.D.I.S”
$Datastore=”SSD-iSCSI”
$ESX=”vmESXi-4.lab”
$HOW_MANY_TO_CREATE=4

$Date=get-date -uformat “%Y%m%d”

$NumArray = (1..$HOW_MANY_TO_CREATE)

for ([int]$seq=1;$seq -le $HOW_MANY_TO_CREATE;$seq++)
{
$string = $NameVM + ($seq.tostring(“0##”))
“Creating $string”
# Create the VM
New-VM -template (Get-template $NameTemplate) -Name $string -Datastore (Get-datastore $Datastore) -VMHost $ESX
}