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Configuring Virtual Machine's Network Adapter from the Virtual Machine using PowerShell

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I'm working on some VM automations which require VMNetworkAdapters to be configured using Windows PowerShell. Specifically, the VMs have multiple Network Adapters and few of them are either to be renamed/disabled.

From the host, this can be easily achieved using Rename-VMNetworkAdapter and Disconnect-VMNetworkAdapter cmdlets. Also, the VMNetworkAdapters are by default named "Network Adapter". But, this name is not visible from the VM. Get-NetAdapter cmdlet in the VM returns a network adapter named "Ethernet".

Is there a way to view and configure VMNetworkAdapters from the Virtual Machines?

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:28 AM

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Hi,

I haven't tried this myself, so I'm not sure if this works or not, but you can try opening an interactive session on the host machine with Enter-PSSession.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849707.aspx

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- Edited by Mike LaughlinModerator Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:42 PM
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:41 PM

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Hi,

On the host, run poweshell as administrator, then with get-vmnetworkadapter command we should be able to get virtual machines network adapter settings. And set-vmnetworkadapter command can help to configure adapter settings.

Please refer to the below articles for more details:

Set-VMNetworkAdapter

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848457.aspx

Regards,

Yan Li
Regards, Yan Li
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014 6:31 AM

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Hi,

I haven't tried this myself, so I'm not sure if this works or not, but you can try opening an interactive session on the host machine with Enter-PSSession.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849707.aspx

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- Edited by Mike LaughlinModerator Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:42 PM
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Hi,

On the host, run poweshell as administrator, then with get-vmnetworkadapter command we should be able to get virtual machines network adapter settings. And set-vmnetworkadapter command can help to configure adapter settings.

Please refer to the below articles for more details:

Set-VMNetworkAdapter

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848457.aspx

Regards,

Yan Li
Regards, Yan Li
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Regards, Yan Li

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 5:31 AM

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