Comments on: dvSwitch scripting – Part 2 – dvPortgroup

By: Raymundo Escobar

Raymundo Escobar — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:30:09 +0000

Hi LUC, this save me the ass and I have to post a BIG thanks!!!

By: LucD

LucD — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:37:45 +0000

In reply to Andre. Hi Andre, I'm not sure how you called the function, but when I use single quotes and named parameters, it seems to work for me. See this short, abstract example


function Test-Function{
  param([parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory = $true)][string]$DatacenterName,
  [parameter(Position = 1, Mandatory = $true)][string]$dvSwitchName)
 
 	Get-Datacenter -Name $DatacenterName
}

$dcName = 'DC 1'
Test-Function -DatacenterName $dcName -dvSwitchName 'dvSw1'

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:56:18 +0000

Thank as as always for your excellent work. I’ve been experimenting with your code in my LAB and I get a Null error when executing

$dvSw.Portgroup | %{Get-View -Id $_}

I tracked it down and found out when I enter Datacenters that have spaces in them that is when the error occurs. How do I deal with Datacenters that have spaces in them?

$DatacenterName = “DataCenter 1”
$OlddvSwitch = “DVS-Net1”

function Get-dvSwitch{

param([parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory = $true)][string]$DatacenterName,
[parameter(Position = 1, Mandatory = $true)][string]$dvSwitchName)

By: LucD

LucD — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:20:33 +0000

In reply to aihx. @aihx, I see. I'm afraid I don't know how to talk to vSphere through raw SOAP packages. Perhaps you could raise your question in the VMware Developer community.

By: aihx

aihx — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:48:21 +0000

Hi all, I used Onyx to debug what the client sent to server; I get SOAP message; I copy it anh use another to sent to server (pass authenticate) but it have an error Array ( [faultcode] => ServerFaultCode [faultstring] => Unable to find specified dynamic type VirtualEthernetCardDistributedVirtualPortBackingInfo while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.device.VirtualDevice.BackingInfo at line 15, column 12 while parsing property "backing" of static type VirtualDeviceBackingInfo while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.device.VirtualE1000 at line 9, column 10 while parsing property "device" of static type VirtualDevice while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.device.VirtualDeviceSpec at line 7, column 8 while parsing property "deviceChange" of static type ArrayOfVirtualDeviceConfigSpec while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.ConfigSpec at line 5, column 6 while parsing call information for method ReconfigVM_Task at line 3, column 4 while parsing SOAP body at line 2, column 2 while parsing SOAP envelope at line 1, column 0 while parsing HTTP request for method reconfigure on object of type vim.VirtualMachine at line 1, column 0 [detail] => Array ( [InvalidRequestFault] => ) ) pls tell me how; how Vsphere client can sent

By: aihx

aihx — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:54:54 +0000

HI LucD

I use vSphere Client and Onyx to get XML

add -100 b2 57 13 50 92 89 c3 d5-d4 23 15 6d 9f fb 34 7b dvportgroup-21 VM Network true true true 100 generated true

I use PHP with SOAP to send XML to vmware; but get this error

when you use java or .net it also create a xml and send to vmware (call API)

i use vm 5

By: LucD

LucD — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:44:08 +0000

In reply to aihx. @aihx, you are saying that


New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualEthernetCardDistributedVirtualPortBackingInfo

doesn't work for you and that it returns an error ? Which PowerCLI version are you using ? Do a


Get-PowerCLIVersion

By: aihx

aihx — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:23:33 +0000

Unable to find specified dynamic type VirtualEthernetCardDistributedVirtualPortBackingInfo

I get this error; I do not know what happen whith VW; I only send XML to WSDL

By: LucD

LucD — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:58:21 +0000

In reply to Tom. Thanks Tom, much appreciated. There is since a couple of days a fling available that provides dvSwitch cmdlets. Have a look at the vSphere Distributed Switch PowerCLI cmdlets blog post.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:12:05 +0000

Just thought I’d post to say a big THANK YOU!. These scripts are amazing and have saved me sooo much time. I don’t understand why vmware didn’t add this functionality into PowerCLI

You certainly know your stuff

Good work!

Tom