Couple of CLI commands, is there a Power CLI alternative?

[BarryCoombs]

Hi,

We have some PowerCLI build scripts that I have created for building vSphere enviroments, two of the only elements I havent been able to automate are as follows

enable CDP on the vSwitches

Currently we use the following command from the CLI

esxcfg-vswitch -B both vSwitch?

Teaming the VMK's with the iSCSI HBA from the CLI

esxcli swiscsi nic add -n vmk? vmhba??

Am I able to complete these two steps with PowerCLI and if not will I be able to do it with vSphere 5 and PowerCLI 5?

Cheers

Barry

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Afaik there are no public API to perform these functions.

But you can use Robert's vCLI wrapper and call the commands from your PS script.

[BarryCoombs]

Cheers Luc  I will take a look

[alanrenouf]

Have you also tried Get-ESXCLI for the second one ?