Comments on: Wee bit of VMware PowerShell – Standard vSwitches

By: Mike Laverick

Mike Laverick — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:37:05 +0000

I’ve been looking at the New-VMHostNetworkAdapter cmd-let which is how you enable VMotion with PowerShell – but it doesn’t have switch to do that. The next step is TRYING to locate the FT Logging option in the SDK. I’m going hunting… will report back if I find it…

By: David

David — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:40:00 +0000

Great article.

Did you already found out how to enable FT logging on the vmk?
We were looking to enable it via vmware-vim-cmd (as for vmotion) but apparantly there is no syntax foreseen?
So maybe PS is capable of enabling it?

Cheers,

David

By: Kayser Soze

Kayser Soze — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:25:49 +0000

Thanks for the update…just what I was looking for.

By: Kayser Soze

Kayser Soze — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:23:05 +0000

Hi Mike, what about adding a network policy on the vswitch/portgroup? i.e. IP hash, failover, etc?

By: jason myerholtz

jason myerholtz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:55:57 +0000

sorry one last thought

$x = 101
Foreach ($vmhost in (get-vmhost))
{
$vs = New-VirtualSwitch -VMHost $vmHost -Name vSwitch2 -nic vmnic3
$VMotion = New-VirtualPortGroup -VirtualSwitch $vs -Name VMotion

New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost (Get-VMHost esx1.vi4book.com) -PortGroup VMotion -VirtualSwitch $vs -IP $x -SubnetMask 255.255.255.0 -VMotionEnabled: $true
$x++
New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost (Get-VMHost esx2.vi4book.com) -PortGroup VMotion -VirtualSwitch $vs -IP $x -SubnetMask 255.255.255.0 -VMotionEnabled:$true
$x++
New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost (Get-VMHost esx3.vi4book.com) -PortGroup VMotion -VirtualSwitch $vs -IP $x -SubnetMask 255.255.255.0 -VMotionEnabled:$true
$x++
New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost (Get-VMHost esx4.vi4book.com) -PortGroup VMotion -VirtualSwitch $vs -IP $x -SubnetMask 255.255.255.0 -VMotionEnabled:$true
}

By: jason myerholtz

jason myerholtz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:39:32 +0000

just set $x to equal your start… so in your case
$x = 101

By: jason myerholtz

jason myerholtz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:36:12 +0000

below is not tested but should work just fine

$x = 0
Foreach ($vmhost in (get-vmhost))
{
$vs = New-VirtualSwitch -VMHost $vmHost -Name vSwitch2 -nic vmnic3
$VMotion = New-VirtualPortGroup -VirtualSwitch $vs -Name VMotion

New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost $vmhost.name -PortGroup VMotion -VirtualSwitch $vs -IP 10.0.0.$x -SubnetMask 255.255.255.0 -VMotionEnabled: $true
$x++
}

By: Hal Rottenberg

Hal Rottenberg — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:14:55 +0000

Or this:

1..4 | Foreach-Object {
New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost (Get-VMHost esx1.vi4book.com) -PortGroup VMotion -VirtualSwitch $vs -IP “10.0.0.10$_” -SubnetMask 255.255.255.0 -VMotionEnabled: $true
}

By: Mike Laverick

Mike Laverick — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:06:47 +0000

Yeah, that works for me in the sense that it outputs the numbers I need, but I’m sure how I would add this foreach loop into the existing vmotion powershell…

By: jason myerholtz

jason myerholtz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:53:01 +0000

for the vmotion script..

foreach ($ip in 1..5){echo 169.82.115.$ip}
or
$x=1
foreach ($i in 1..5){
echo 169.82.115.$x
$x++}