Re: Schedule VM Compatibility Upgrade

You can schedule VM compatibility upgrade with PowerCLI. The following PowerCLI script will schedule a vm called MyVM to be compatible with "ESXi 5.1 and later" and it will enable "Only upgrade after normal guest OS shutdown".

$vm=Get-VM-NameMyVM$vm.ExtensionData.Config.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo$spec=New-Object-TypeNameVMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec$spec.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo =New-Object-TypeNameVMware.Vim.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo$spec.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.UpgradePolicy ="onSoftPowerOff"$spec.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.VersionKey ="vmx-09"$spec.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeStatus ="pending"$vm.ExtensionData.ReconfigVM_Task($spec)

You can  check the scheduled VM compatibility upgrade for all your vm's with:

Get-VM |Select-Object-Property Name,
@{N="UpgradePolicy";E={$_.ExtensionData.Config.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.UpgradePolicy}},
@{N="VersionKey";E={$_.ExtensionData.Config.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.VersionKey}},
@{N="ScheduledHardwareUpgradeStatus";E={$_.ExtensionData.Config.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeStatus}},
@{N="Fault";E={$_.ExtensionData.Config.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.Fault}},
@{N="DynamicType";E={$_.ExtensionData.Config.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.DynamicType}},
@{N="DynamicProperty";E={$_.ExtensionData.Config.ScheduledHardwareUpgradeInfo.DynamicProperty}}|Format-Table

Message was edited by: RvdNieuwendijk Added the screenshot