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Robert van den Nieuwendijk
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Robert van den Nieuwendijk is an IT veteran from the Netherlands with over thirty years of experience in Information Technology. He holds a bachelor degree in software engineering. After working a few years as a programmer of air traffic control and vessel traffic management systems, he started his own company Van den Nieuwendijk Informatica in 1988. Since then he has worked as a freelance systems administrator of OpenVMS, Windows Server, Linux, and VMware vSphere systems, for Dutch governmental organizations and cloud providers. During winter he is also a ski and snowboard instructor at an indoor ski school. With his background as a programmer, he always tries to make his job easier by writing programs or scripts to perform repeating tasks. In the past, he used the C programming language, OpenVMS DCL, Visual Basic Script and KiXtart to do this. Now, he uses Microsoft PowerShell and VMware PowerCLI for all of his scripting work. Robert is a frequent contributor and moderator at the VMware VMTN Communities. Since 2012 VMware awarded him the vExpert title for his significant contributions to the community and a willingness to share his expertise with others. He has a blog at http://rvdnieuwendijk.com where he writes mainly about VMware PowerCLI, Microsoft PowerShell, and VMware vSphere. If you want to get in touch with Robert, then you can find him on Twitter. His username is @rvdnieuwendijk. Robert is also the author of Learning PowerCLI, Packt Publishing.
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Registering virtual machines

To register an existing virtual machine to your vCenter inventory, you have to specify the path to a .vmx file. A .vmx file contains the configuration for an existing virtual machine. Here are a few lines from a .vmx file:

.encoding = "UTF-8" 
config.version = "8" 
virtualHW.version = "11" 
vmci0.present = "TRUE" 
displayName = "VM4" 
floppy0.present = "FALSE" 
numvcpus = "1" 
memSize = "256"

You typically don't modify a .vmx file with an editor, because you might break the connection to the virtual machine.

Note

For more information about modifying a .vmx file, read the VMware Knowledge Base article Tips for editing a .vmx file (1714) (available at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1714 ).

The following example will register a virtual machine named VM4 on host 192.168.0.134. You have to specify the location of the .vmx file of the virtual machine on the datastore as the value of the New-VM -VMFilePath parameter:

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