Re: vCLI - Configure NIC Teaming Policy for a vSwi...

cody_bunch · ‎02-27-2010

Is it possible using the vCLI to configure the NIC teaming (beacon probing, failback, etc)?

Having looked around, it doesn't seem all that straight forward.\

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lamw · ‎02-27-2010

Yes and no ... yes that it's possible, but no there does not exists any canned scripts from VMware that allows you to configure some of these advanced configurations for a vSwitch.

Everything you can do on the vSphere Client can be done using the vSphere SDK for Perl which is the Perl bindings to the vSphere API (vCLI is written from this), similar to that with PowerCLI and it's Powrshell bindings to the vSphere API.

Here's an example of a script I wrote that allows you to configure security policies on creating a vSwitch: which does not exists in any canned vCLI script/etc.

NIC teaming can be done using esxcfg-vswitch which exists with vCLI the remainder would need to be a custom script. If you provide a list of all additional configs you would like to make either creating a new vSwitch OR modifying an existing vSwitch, I can probably come up with something.

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cody_bunch · ‎03-01-2010

Lam,

Thanks for the quick reply. I was looking for a way to do similar to what set-nicteamingpolicy would do in PowerCLI, but without having to get into the Perl bits. No need for anything at this point, just trying to get a feel for the sister toolkit/CLI.

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