Set-SCVirtualFloppyDrive

Changes properties of a virtual floppy drive associated with a virtual machine, virtual nmachine template, or hardware profile used in VMM.

Description

The Set-SCVirtualFloppyDrive cmdlet changes one or more properties of a virtual floppy drive associated with a virtual machine, virtual machine template, or hardware profile used in a System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) environment. 

You can use the Set-VirtualFloppyDrive cmdlet to configure the virtual floppy drive to use a physical floppy drive (typically, drive A:) to read physical floppy disks, to read an existing virtual floppy disk, or to disconnect the virtual floppy disk.

For more information about Set-SCVirtualFloppyDrive, type: "Get-Help Set-SCVirtualFloppyDrive -online".

Parameters

VirtualFloppyDrive

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

JobGroup

Required? false
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.

VMMServer

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? true (ByValue)
Position? named 
Specifies a VMM server object.

VirtualFloppyDrive

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

JobGroup

Required? false
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.

VMMServer

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? true (ByValue)
Position? named 
Specifies a VMM server object.

VirtualFloppyDrive

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

JobGroup

Required? false
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.

VMMServer

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? true (ByValue)
Position? named 
Specifies a VMM server object.

VirtualFloppyDrive

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

NoMedia

Required? true
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named 
Disconnects a virtual DVD drive from the host drive or ISO to which it was connected, or disconnects a virtual floppy drive from the host drive or virtual floppy disk to which it was connected.

JobGroup

Required? false
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.

VMMServer

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? true (ByValue)
Position? named 
Specifies a VMM server object.

VirtualFloppyDrive

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

VirtualFloppyDisk

Required? true
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named 
Specifies a virtual floppy disk object.

JobGroup

Required? false
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.

VMMServer

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? true (ByValue)
Position? named 
Specifies a VMM server object.

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

Examples

1: Connect a virtual floppy drive to a virtual floppy disk. 
PS C:\> $FloppyDisk = Get-SCVirtualFloppyDisk -VMMServer "VMMServer01.Contoso.com" | where {$_.Name -eq "BootDisk.vfd"}
PS C:\> $VM = Get-SCVirtualMachine -Name "VM01"
PS C:\> $FloppyDrive = @(Get-SCVirtualFloppyDrive -VM $VM)
PS C:\> Set-SCVirtualFloppyDrive -VirtualFloppyDrive $FloppyDrive[0] -VirtualFloppyDisk $FloppyDisk

The first command gets the virtual floppy disk object named BootDisk.vfd from VMMServer01 and stores the object in the $FloppyDisk variable.

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

The third command gets the virtual floppy drive object on VM01 and stores the virtual floppy drive object in the $FloppyDrive object array (in the event there is more than one virtual floppy drive object, the array will store all of the objects).

The last command connects the virtual floppy disk stored in $FloppyDisk (BootDisk.vfd) to the first virtual floppy drive on VM01.
2: Disconnect a virtual floppy drive. 
PS C:\> $VM = Get-SCVirtualMachine -Name "VM02"
PS C:\> $FloppyDrive = @(Get-SCVirtualFloppyDrive -VM $VM)
PS C:\> Set-SCVirtualFloppyDrive -VirtualFloppyDrive $FloppyDrive[0] -NoMedia

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

The second command gets the virtual floppy drive object on VM02 and stores the object in $FloppyDrive. 

The last command disconnects the virtual floppy drive object stored in $FloppyDrive from any host drive or virtual floppy disk to which it was connected by specifying the NoMedia parameter. This command also deletes any virtual floppy disk that the virtual floppy drive used earlier if no other virtual machine currently uses that virtual floppy disk.

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