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c_shanklin Master VMware Employees
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Aug 14, 2009 9:06 AM

FT-enable a VM.

To enable FT for a VM:

 


Get-VM X | Get-View | % { $_.CreateSecondaryVM($null) }

 

This will choose a host, if you want to specify a specific host, pass the host's MOR in place of $null.

 

To disable, run:


Get-VM X | Select -First 1 | Get-View | % { $_.TurnOffFaultToleranceForVM() }

 

Note that in PowerCLI 4.0 Get-VM will return a fault tolerant VM twice, so we select the first one.

Carter Shanklin | VMware Product Management | @cshanklin
 
Tags: tolerance, fault, ft
Mike_Laverick Virtuoso vExpert
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1. Sep 10, 2009 7:44 AM in response to: c_shanklin
Re: FT-enable a VM.

Carter,

 

I am I right in saying there's no method to enable FT logging on a vmkernel port in the SDK.

 

I remember asking this before but I can't remember the answer...

 

If it is possible - can you point me to the right location in the SDK online?

 

 

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2. Sep 10, 2009 8:21 PM in response to: Mike_Laverick
Re: FT-enable a VM.

Mike,

 

Take a look at ftCLI2.pl to configure FT logging for a given set of ESX(i) hosts for a given FT portgroup, I'm sure this can be accomplished in PowerCLI as well since this just uses the vSphere APIs

 

 

 

 

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c_shanklin Master VMware Employees
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3. Sep 11, 2009 6:25 PM in response to: Mike_Laverick
Re: FT-enable a VM.

Try this.

 


# Enable or disable FT logging.
$esxHost = "192.168.1.11"
$vmKernel = "vmk0" # You can get these out of Get-VMHostNetwork
$enable = $true
$hView = Get-VMHost $esxHost | Get-View -Property configManager
$nicManager = Get-View $hView.configManager.virtualNicManager
if ($enable -eq $true) {
     $nicManager.SelectVnicForNicType("faultToleranceLogging", $vmKernel)
} else {
     $nicManager.DeselectVnicForNicType("faultToleranceLogging", $vmKernel)
}

 

 

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