From 8694c402108ac7a67f5cc5ad6feac4c74b4ff18b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Lam <william2003@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 05:22:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Parentless Instant Clone for vSphere 6.7

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 Modules/InstantClone/InstantClone.psm1 | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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+Function New-InstantClone {
+<#
+    .NOTES
+    ===========================================================================
+     Created by:    William Lam
+     Date:          Apr 29, 2018
+     Organization:  VMware
+     Blog:          www.virtuallyghetto.com
+     Twitter:       @lamw
+    ===========================================================================
+    .SYNOPSIS
+        This function demonstrates the use of the new "Parentless" Instant Clone
+        API that was introduced in vSphere 6.7
+    .DESCRIPTION
+        Function to create new "Parentless" Instant Clones in vSphere 6.7
+    .EXAMPLE
+        $SourceVM = "Foo"
+        $newVMName = Foo-IC-1
+        $guestCustomizationValues = @{
+            "guestinfo.ic.hostname" = $newVMName
+            "guestinfo.ic.ipaddress" = "192.168.30.10"
+            "guestinfo.ic.netmask" = "255.255.255.0"
+            "guestinfo.ic.gateway" = "192.168.30.1"
+            "guestinfo.ic.dns" = "192.168.30.1"
+        }
+        New-InstantClone -SourceVM $SourceVM -DestinationVM $newVMName -CustomizationFields $guestCustomizationValues
+    .NOTES
+        Make sure that you have both a vSphere 6.7 env (VC/ESXi) as well as
+        as the latest PowerCLI 10.1 installed which is reuqired to use vSphere 6.7 APIs
+#>
+    param(
+        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String]$SourceVM,
+        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String]$DestinationVM,
+        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][Hashtable]$CustomizationFields
+    )
+    $vm = Get-VM -Name $SourceVM
+
+    $config = @()
+    $CustomizationFields.GetEnumerator() | Foreach-Object {
+        $optionValue = New-Object VMware.Vim.OptionValue
+        $optionValue.Key = $_.Key
+        $optionValue.Value = $_.Value
+        $config += $optionValue
+    }
+
+    # SourceVM must either be running or running but in Frozen State
+    if($vm.PowerState -ne "PoweredOn") {
+        Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red "Instant Cloning is only supported on a PoweredOn or Frozen VM"
+        break
+    }
+
+    # SourceVM == Powered On
+    if((Get-VM $SourceVM).ExtensionData.Runtime.InstantCloneFrozen -eq $false) {
+        Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red "Instant Cloning from a PoweredOn VM has not been implemented"
+        break
+    }
+
+    $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineInstantCloneSpec
+    $locationSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
+    $spec.Config = $config
+    $spec.Location = $locationSpec
+    $spec.Name = $DestinationVM
+
+    Write-Host "Creating Instant Clone $DestinationVM ..."
+    $task = $vm.ExtensionData.InstantClone_Task($spec)
+    $task1 = Get-Task -Id ("Task-$($task.value)")
+    $task1 | Wait-Task | Out-Null
+}
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