Remove-SCVirtualDVDDrive

Removes a virtual DVD drive object from VMM.

Description

Removes one or more virtual DVD drive objects from a hardware profile, a virtual machine, or a virtual machine template used in a System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) environment. The cmdlet also deletes any .iso file that the virtual DVD drive uses from the file system on the library server.

This cmdlet returns the object upon success (with the property MarkedForDeletion set to TRUE) or returns an error message upon failure.

For more information about Remove-SCVirtualDVDDrive, type: "Get-Help Remove-SCVirtualDVDDrive -online".

Parameters

JobGroup

Required? true
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named 
Specifies an identifier for a series of commands that will run as a set just before the final command that includes the same job group identifier runs.

SourceBus

Required? true
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named 
Specifies the source IDE bus for the drive.

SourceLUN

Required? true
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named 
Specifies the source logical unit number (LUN) for a virtual DVD drive object on an IDE bus.

JobVariable

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named 
Specifies that job progress is tracked and stored in the variable named by this parameter.

PROTipID

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named 
Specifies the ID of the PRO tip that triggered this action. This allows for auditing of PRO tips.

RunAsynchronously

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named 
Indicates that the job runs asynchronously so that control returns to the command shell immediately.

VirtualDVDDrive

Required? true
Accept Pipeline Input? true (ByValue)
Position? 0 
Specifies a virtual DVD drive object.

JobGroup

Required? true
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named 
Specifies an identifier for a series of commands that will run as a set just before the final command that includes the same job group identifier runs.

JobVariable

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named 
Specifies that job progress is tracked and stored in the variable named by this parameter.

PROTipID

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named 
Specifies the ID of the PRO tip that triggered this action. This allows for auditing of PRO tips.

RunAsynchronously

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named 
Indicates that the job runs asynchronously so that control returns to the command shell immediately. 

Requires a VMM virtual DVD drive object, which can be retrieved by using the Get-SCVirtualDVDDrive cmdlet.

Examples

1: Remove a specific virtual DVD drive from a virtual machine. 
PS C:\> $VM = Get-SCVirtualMachine -Name "VM01"
PS C:\> $DVDDrive = Get-SCVirtualDVDDrive -VM $VM | where { $_.Bus –eq 1 -and $_.LUN –eq 0 }
PS C:\> Remove-SCVirtualDVDDrive -VirtualDVDDrive $DVDDrive

The first command gets the virtual machine object named VM01 and stores the object in the $VM variable.

The second command gets the virtual DVD drive object located on the first slot of the Secondary Channel (specified by -Bus 1 and -LUN 0) on the IDE bus on VM01 and then stores the virtual DVD drive object in the $DVDDrive variable.

The last command removes the virtual DVD drive object stored in $DVDDrive from VM01 and deletes any .iso file that this virtual DVD drive uses from the file system on the library server.
2: Remove the third virtual DVD drive from a virtual machine. 
PS C:\> $VM = Get-SCVirtualMachine -Name "VM02"
PS C:\> $DVDDrive = Get-SCVirtualDVDDrive -VM $VM
PS C:\> $DVDDrive[2] | Remove-SCVirtualDVDDrive

The first command gets the virtual machine object named VM02 and stores the object in the $VM variable.

The second command gets all virtual DVD drive objects connected to VM02 and stores each virtual DVD drive object in the $DVDDrive object array. This example assumes that VM02 has three virtual DVD drives and therefore the array contains three elements (counting 0 to 2).

The last command passes the third virtual DVD drive (object [2]) stored in $DVDDrive to the Remove-SCVirtualDVDDrive cmdlet, which removes this virtual DVD drive object from VM02 and deletes any .iso file used by this virtual DVD drive from the file system on the library server.

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