Activation of replication services on vmkernel port through Powercli

[Grrmmll]

Hello all

I'm trying to automate the activation of services "vSphere replicaton traffic" and "vSphere Replication NFC traffic" on a vmkernel port and I can't find anywhere the option to do it in Powercli.
I have search Powercli documentation and looked everywhere I could, without success...

No option seems available through New-VMHostNetworkAdapter and Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter

Is there a way to activate those services through Powercli or is it not implemented (yet)?

I have about 40 Esxi to reconfigure and doing it manually through the Web Client is "not efficient"

Thanks

Sebastien

[LucD]

Not through a PowerCLI cmdlet I'm afraid.
But you can call the API method from PowerCLI.

Is that a vmk on a VSS or a VDS?

[Grrmmll]

Thank you for your answer. (That's what I feared ^^)

Half or infra has this vmk on VSS, the other half on VDS.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Try like this, it works for VSS and VDS

$esxName = 'MyEsx'

$vmkName = 'vmk0'

$esx = Get-VMHost -Name $esxName

$vnicMgr = Get-View -Id $esx.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.VirtualNicManager

$vnicMgr.SelectVnicForNicType('vSphereReplication',$vmkName)

$vnicMgr.SelectVnicForNicType('vSphereReplicationNFC',$vmkName)

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[Grrmmll]

Thank you very much.

Working great

[bigartg]

good script!!

but how can be done with binding to Network Label? not vmkname

[LucD]

The Network Label is the Portgroup, but what if there is more than 1 VMKernel on that Portgroup?

[bigartg]

in my case, only one vmkernel

[LucD]

You should be able to go from Network Label to the VMKernel.
Something like this

$vmkName = Get-VirtualPortGroup -Name $pgName | 
Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMKernel | 
where{$_.VMHost.Name -eq <name of the ESXi node>} | 
Select -ExpandProperty Name