Changing UpLink Names on a VDSwitch at creation via PowerCLI.

[Aspindler34]

Greetings one and All!

I was wondering if anyone out there has figured out how to change the names of the uplinks on the vds creation steps via powerCLI. I do a lot of VDS creation and we have a step where we change the names of the uplinks to our standard names. But i cannot for the life of me find a way to change the names with the available PowerCLI 6.0 Documentation. I am trying to accomplish this on ESXi 6.0 machines, But i would also like it to be "retrofitable" to 5.5 as well.

any help anyone can provide would just be fantastic!

here is one of the commands i have been working with to create the VDSs:

New-VDSwitch -name "testswitch" -LinkDiscoveryProtocol CDP -LinkDiscoveryProtocolOperation Both -MaxPorts 512 -Mtu 9000 -NumUplinkPorts 2 -Version "6.0.0" -Location TestDC

thanks!

[LucD]

Before the VDS cmdlets were introduced, I wrote a New-dvSwitch cmdlet.

In there you can give the basename of the uplinks.

See dvSwitch scripting - Part 1 - Creation‌

Renaming the uplinks of an existing VDS should be possible via the ReconfigureDVS method.

Don't have a sample script handy for that right now

[Aspindler34]

Thanks for the reply! Ill look into this and see where I can go from there.