Comments on: Find unused portgroups in a cluster

By: LucD

LucD — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:57:59 +0000

In reply to Gautam. If you have 1 clustername per line in a TXT file, you can package the code in a foreach loop. Just drop line 1. Something like this


Get-Content -Path .\clusterNames.Txt -PipelineVariable clusterName |
Foreach-Object -Process {

# The code from the post

}

By: Gautam

Gautam — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:18:00 +0000

Hi Luc,

Is there a way i can input list of clusters in a file, tried using get-content with a txt file but not wokring.

By: LucD

LucD — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 08:37:08 +0000

In reply to Khoa Trinh. Hi Khoa, For learning PowerCLI, and don't forget you will need to have some basic PowerShell knowledge as well, there are a number of introductory resources available. See the sidebar on the PowerCLI blog for some pointers. For diving into the vSphere API you will need to refer to the API Reference, it also has sample code. On the PowerShell part, there is a good intro at the Microsoft MVA site. I hope that helps to get you started. Regards, Luc

By: Khoa Trinh

Khoa Trinh — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 07:53:18 +0000

Dear LucD,

This script is great. However, i wonder did you or vmware public some document how we can manipulate and getting familiar with the powercli.

I already wen to the link https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.host.NetworkInfo.html, but i don’ know how we can manipulate the object or try to discover the value properties.

May you please give me a hint here ? . Thanks.

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 14:22:12 +0000

Hi Luc,
Wondering if there had been updates to this script to work with VDS and vSphere 5.5? This is exactly what I’m looking for in order to complete some tasks. Would appreciate any insight!
Thanks.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:31:45 +0000

I’m going to hazard a guess that you never determined why it didn’t work for vSphere 5.0+? Running into the same issue.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:17:22 +0000

Luc,
This script does not seem to function properly on ESX 5.0. Are there changes that need to be made for the newer ESX versions? It’s not accurately displaying the VMs connected to my portgroups so most of them appear unused.

By: LucD

LucD — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:39:01 +0000

In reply to Jordan. Hi Jordan, yes, you are correct, that Ports property doesn't exist for portgroups on dvSwitches. It should be possible to do this though, have a look at my dvSwitch scripting – Part 12 – Find free ports post, where I find the first free ports on a dvSwitch portgroup. I'll see if I can come up with something.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:39:49 +0000

Luc,

I know this an old post, but what about Distributed Switches? They don’t seem to have to Ports property…

By: LucD

LucD — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:32:11 +0000

In reply to Sven. @Sven. I'm currently in the final days of writing for our upcoming book. Once that is done I will tackle all the open questions and requests. Sorry to keep you waiting.