Add multiple PVLAN IDs to dvSwitch?

[nicholas1982]

Hi Guys,

I have an existing dvSwitch with an existing Primary PVLAN, I would like to add multiple community vlans, I've tried a few scripts without much luck, any help is appreciated.

[nicholas1982]

This is what I tried if it helps.

$dcName = "DC"

$dvSName = "DVS1"

$dvSw = Get-dvSwitch $dcName $dvSName

New-dvSwPVLAN $dvSw 900 902,903 "community","community"

[nicholas1982]

Ok I think, I may have the answer, I'm running PowerCLI 5.1 Release 1 which I think doesn't have the cmdlets, downloading release 2.

[RvdNieuwendijk]

Using the new PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2 VDS cmdlets you can do:

$dcName = "DC"

$dvSName = "DVS1"

$dvSW = Get-VDSwitch -Name $dvSName -Location $dcName

New-VDPortGroup -VDSwitch $dvSW -Name "Community vlan 900" -VlanId 900

New-VDPortGroup -VDSwitch $dvSW -Name "Community vlan 902" -VlanId 902

New-VDPortGroup -VDSwitch $dvSW -Name "Community vlan 903" -VlanId 903

[LucD]

I think you need the Get-VDSwitch cmdlet, not Get-dvSwitch.

[nicholas1982]

Thanks, but that create portgroups with standard vlans, I need to add PVLANS?

[nicholas1982]

Thanks Luc, So I need to populate the DVswitch with the community Private VLAN then create port groups, do you have a simple script for this?

[RvdNieuwendijk]

Afaik the New-VDPortgroup cmdlet cannot yet be used to create private vlan's. You can revert to Luc's private vlan functions in his blog post:

dvSwitch scripting – Part 6 – Private VLAN | LucD notes

[nicholas1982]

Thanks, will i need to install additional cmdlets? If so do you know where I can get it?

[RvdNieuwendijk · Accepted solution]

The PowerCLI functions that you need are in Luc's blogpost. You can cut and paste them into your PowerCLI session or you can save them in a .ps1 file and load the file into your PowerCLI session by dot-sourcing the file. For example:

PowerCLI C:\> . .\dvSwitch.ps1

[nicholas1982]

I see... Do I need to change Get-dvSwitch to Get-VDSwitch ?

[RvdNieuwendijk]

The Get-dvSwitch function and Get-VDSwitch cmdlet return different type of objects. So you better use the Get-dvSwitch function.

[nicholas1982]

Great, it works, I just used the whole script, I didn't realize the functions were needed at first.

Using the new cmdlets in Powercli 5.1 R2 is it possible to create multiple DV portgroups with specified number of ports?

[nicholas1982]

Its ok just worked it out New-VDPortgroup -VDSwitch "DLS1" -Name PG905 -NumPorts 1

[nicholas1982]

I do have one other question, I'm trying to run the script that creates the PVLAN, but just so I can add additional secondary vlans, I get an error cause its tries to create the primary again. what would be the way to just add secondary vlans?

[RvdNieuwendijk]

Using Luc's functions I created a new function Set-dvSwPVLAN that you can use to add an additional secondary vlan.

function Set-dvSwPVLAN{
param($dvSw, $primaryNr, [int[]] $secondaryNr, [string[]] $secondaryType)

$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSConfigSpec

# Primary
$pvlan = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPvlanConfigSpec

# Secondaries
for($i = 0;$i -lt $secondaryNr.Count; $i++){
  $pvlan = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPvlanConfigSpec
  $pvlan.operation = "add"
  $pvlan.pvlanEntry = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPvlanMapEntry
  $pvlan.pvlanEntry.primaryVlanId = $primaryNr
  $pvlan.pvlanEntry.pvlanType = $secondaryType[$i].ToLower()
  $pvlan.pvlanEntry.secondaryVlanId = $secondaryNr[$i]
  $spec.PvlanConfigSpec += $pvlan
}

$dvSw.UpdateViewData()
$spec.ConfigVersion = $dvSw.Config.ConfigVersion
$taskMoRef = $dvSw.ReconfigureDvs_Task($spec)

$task = Get-View $taskMoRef
while("running","queued" -contains $task.Info.State){
  $task.UpdateViewData("Info")
}
}

[nicholas1982]

Thanks, I'm not sure where im going wrong

function Get-dvSwitch{

  param($dcName,$dvSwName)

  $dcNetFolder = Get-View (Get-Datacenter $dcName | Get-View).NetworkFolder

  $found = $null

  foreach($net in $dcNetFolder.ChildEntity){

  if($net.Type -eq "VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitch"){

  $temp = Get-View $net

  if($temp.Name -eq $dvSwName){

  $found = $temp

  }

  }

  }

  $found

}

function New-dvSwPVLAN{

  param($dvSw, $primaryNr, [int[]] $secondaryNr, [string[]] $secondaryType)

  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSConfigSpec

  # Primary

  $pvlan = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPvlanConfigSpec

  $pvlan.operation = "add"

  $pvlan.pvlanEntry = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPvlanMapEntry

  $pvlan.pvlanEntry.primaryVlanId = $primaryNr

  $pvlan.pvlanEntry.pvlanType = "promiscuous"

  $pvlan.pvlanEntry.secondaryVlanId = $primaryNr

  $spec.PvlanConfigSpec += $pvlan

  # Secondaries

  for($i = 0;$i -lt $secondaryNr.Count; $i++){

  $pvlan = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPvlanConfigSpec

  $pvlan.operation = "add"

  $pvlan.pvlanEntry = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPvlanMapEntry

  $pvlan.pvlanEntry.primaryVlanId = $primaryNr

  $pvlan.pvlanEntry.pvlanType = $secondaryType[$i].ToLower()

  $pvlan.pvlanEntry.secondaryVlanId = $secondaryNr[$i]

  $spec.PvlanConfigSpec += $pvlan

  }

  $dvSw.UpdateViewData()

  $spec.ConfigVersion = $dvSw.Config.ConfigVersion

  $taskMoRef = $dvSw.ReconfigureDvs_Task($spec)

  $task = Get-View $taskMoRef

  while("running","queued" -contains $task.Info.State){

  $task.UpdateViewData("Info")

  }

}

$datacenterName = "DC1"

$dvSwitchName = "VDS1"

$dvSw = Get-dvSwitch $datacenterName $dvSwitchName

New-dvSwPVLAN $dvSw 900 910 "community"

[nicholas1982]

Hey, its all good found the problem, i had it set to New-dvSwPVLAN rather than Set-dvSwPVLAN, Thanks again for all your help guys, really appreciate it. This will make it much easier for us to migrate to the vDS with PVLANS

function Get-dvSwitch{

  param($dcName,$dvSwName)

  $dcNetFolder = Get-View (Get-Datacenter $dcName | Get-View).NetworkFolder

  $found = $null

  foreach($net in $dcNetFolder.ChildEntity){

  if($net.Type -eq "VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitch"){

  $temp = Get-View $net

  if($temp.Name -eq $dvSwName){

  $found = $temp

  }

  }

  }

  $found

}

function Set-dvSwPVLAN{

param($dvSw, $primaryNr, [int[]] $secondaryNr, [string[]] $secondaryType)

$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSConfigSpec

# Primary

$pvlan = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPvlanConfigSpec

# Secondaries

for($i = 0;$i -lt $secondaryNr.Count; $i++){

  $pvlan = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPvlanConfigSpec

  $pvlan.operation = "add"

  $pvlan.pvlanEntry = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPvlanMapEntry

  $pvlan.pvlanEntry.primaryVlanId = $primaryNr

  $pvlan.pvlanEntry.pvlanType = $secondaryType[$i].ToLower()

  $pvlan.pvlanEntry.secondaryVlanId = $secondaryNr[$i]

  $spec.PvlanConfigSpec += $pvlan

}

$dvSw.UpdateViewData()

$spec.ConfigVersion = $dvSw.Config.ConfigVersion

$taskMoRef = $dvSw.ReconfigureDvs_Task($spec)

$task = Get-View $taskMoRef

while("running","queued" -contains $task.Info.State){

  $task.UpdateViewData("Info")

}

}

$datacenterName = "DC1"

$dvSwitchName = "DVS1"

$dvSw = Get-dvSwitch $datacenterName $dvSwitchName

Set-dvSwPVLAN $dvSw 900 918 "community"

Set-dvSwPVLAN $dvSw 900 916 "community"

Set-dvSwPVLAN $dvSw 900 920 "community"