I sometimes came up the requirement to set the virtual machine boot order on automation projects. A long time there was no easy way to modify the boot order with automatically but since quite a while you can modify the boot order simply via API.
So now I share a workflow to modify the boot order with vRealize Orchestrator. This workflow will change the boot order to:
1. CD-ROM Drive
2. Network boot (first found Ethernet device)
3. Hard Drive (hard disk at SCSI 0:0)
4. Removable devices
If you prefer any other order, feel free to modify the workflow.
The JavaScript code to modify the boot order is:
var myVcVirtualEthernet = null;
var myVcVirtualDisk = null;
for each ( var myDevice in virtualmachine.config.hardware.device ) {
switch ( true ) {
case myDevice instanceof VcVirtualE1000:
case myDevice instanceof VcVirtualE1000e:
case myDevice instanceof VcVirtualPCNet32:
case myDevice instanceof VcVirtualVmxnet:
case myDevice instanceof VcVirtualVmxnet2:
case myDevice instanceof VcVirtualVmxnet3:
if ( myVcVirtualEthernet == null ) {
myVcVirtualEthernet = myDevice;
}
break;
case myDevice instanceof VcVirtualDisk:
if ( myDevice.controllerKey == 1000 && myDevice.unitNumber == 0 ) {
myVcVirtualDisk = myDevice;
}
break;
default:
break;
}
}
if ( myVcVirtualEthernet == null ) {
throw "No Ethernet device found on virtual machine " + virtualmachine.name;
}
if ( myVcVirtualDisk == null ) {
throw "No Disk device found on virtual machine " + virtualmachine.name + " on SCSi 0:0";
}
var myVcVirtualMachineBootOptionsBootableDeviceArray = new Array() ;
var myVcVirtualMachineBootOption = new VcVirtualMachineBootOptionsBootableCdromDevice();
myVcVirtualMachineBootOptionsBootableDeviceArray.push( myVcVirtualMachineBootOption );
var myVcVirtualMachineBootOption = new VcVirtualMachineBootOptionsBootableEthernetDevice();
myVcVirtualMachineBootOption.deviceKey = myVcVirtualEthernet.key;
myVcVirtualMachineBootOptionsBootableDeviceArray.push( myVcVirtualMachineBootOption );
var myVcVirtualMachineBootOption = new VcVirtualMachineBootOptionsBootableDiskDevice();
myVcVirtualMachineBootOption.deviceKey = myVcVirtualDisk.key;
myVcVirtualMachineBootOptionsBootableDeviceArray.push( myVcVirtualMachineBootOption );
var myVcVirtualMachineBootOptions = new VcVirtualMachineBootOptions() ;
myVcVirtualMachineBootOptions.bootOrder = myVcVirtualMachineBootOptionsBootableDeviceArray;
var myVcVirtualMachineConfigSpec = new VcVirtualMachineConfigSpec() ;
myVcVirtualMachineConfigSpec.bootOptions = myVcVirtualMachineBootOptions;
var myVcTask = virtualmachine.reconfigVM_Task( myVcVirtualMachineConfigSpec );
Workflow schema:
You can download the workflow from VMware Orchestrator Community here.
