DRS VM Overrides

[PichuginDK]

I have several VM with names: app, db and etc.

How I can change DRS VM overrides using PowerCLI?

[LucD]

You can use the Set-VM cmdlet with the DrsAutomationLevel parameter.

Something like this

Get-VM -Name app | Set-VM -DrsAutomationLevel Disabled -Confirm:$false

[PichuginDK]

How can I get current VM overrides settings for VM, in (Get-VM -Name app).DrsAutomationLevel  - no information

[LucD]

When there is no explicit setting for a VM, it should say 'AsSpecifiedByCluster', in other words, the cluster default.

Which PowerCLI version are you using?
Do a

Get-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -ListAvailable

[PichuginDK]

-------------------------    Importetd Module   -------------------------

   Get-FunctionVersion                      -    0.0.-1.

   Microsoft.PowerShell.Management          -    3.1.0.

   Microsoft.PowerShell.Security            -    3.0.0.

   Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility             -    3.1.0.

   New-PercentageBar                        -    0.0.-1.

   PowerNSX                                 -    3.0.1118.

   PSReadline                               -    1.2.-1.

   Start-SleepProgress                      -    0.0.-1.

   VAMI                                     -    2.0.0.

   vDocumentation                           -    2.4.0.

   Vi-Module                                -    1.4.7.

   Vi-SDRS                                  -    0.0.-1.

   VMware.Community.CISTag                  -    1.0.0.

   VMware.DeployAutomation                  -    6.7.0.

   VMware.ImageBuilder                      -    6.7.0.

   VMware.PowerCLI                          -    11.5.0.

   VMware.Vim                               -    6.7.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core            -    11.5.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud               -    11.0.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.Common              -    11.5.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.Core                -    11.5.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.Hcx                 -    11.5.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.HorizonView         -    7.10.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.License             -    11.3.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.Nsxt                -    11.5.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.PCloud              -    10.0.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk                 -    11.5.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.Security            -    11.0.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.Srm                 -    11.5.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.Storage             -    11.5.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.StorageUtility      -    1.3.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.Vds                 -    11.2.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.Vmc                 -    11.5.0.

   VMware.VimAutomation.vROps               -    10.0.0.

   VMware.VumAutomation                     -    6.5.1.

   vNugglets.Utility                        -    1.2.0.

   Write-Menu                               -    0.0.-1.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

[LucD]

That's the latest version.
And the following is not returning 'AsSpecifiedByCluster'?

Get-VM -Name app | Select Name,DrsAutomationLevel

[PichuginDK]

PS C:\> Get-VM -Name app | Select Name,DrsAutomationLevel

Name DrsAutomationLevel

---- ------------------

app             Manual

but I do not see these parameters

[LucD]

That property indeed only shows the value of the Automation level field.

If you need to report on other settings, you will have to go into the ExtensionData property.

[PichuginDK]

Can you tell me which ExtensionData you need to watch?

Maybe an example?

[LucD]

Which properties do you want to report on?

[PichuginDK]

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Several of these are HA settings, not DRS.
But in any case, you could do something like this

$clusterName = 'cluster'

Get-Cluster -Name $clusterName -PipelineVariable cluster |

Get-VM -PipelineVariable vm |

Select @{N='Cluster';E={$cluster.Name}},

    @{N='VM';E={$_.Name}},

    @{N='DRS Automation Level';E={$_.DrsAutomationLevel}},

    @{N='VM Restart Priority';E={$_.HARestartPriority}},

    @{N='Additional Delay';E={

        $script:orch = $cluster.ExtensionData.ConfigurationEx.VmOrchestration |

            where{$_.Vm -eq $vm.ExtensionData.MoRef} |

            Select -ExpandProperty VmReadiness

        if(-not $script:orch){

            $script:orch = $cluster.ExtensionData.ConfigurationEx.Orchestration.DefaultVmReadiness

        }

        $script:orch.PostReadyDelay}},

    @{N='After Timeout';E={

        $script:ha = $cluster.ExtensionData.ConfigurationEx.DasVmConfig |

            where{$_.Key -eq $vm.ExtensionData.MoRef} |

            Select -ExpandProperty DasSettings

        if(-not $script:ha){

            $script:ha = $cluster.ExtensionData.ConfigurationEx.DasConfig.DefaultVmSettings

        }

        $script:ha.RestartPriorityTimeout}},

    @{N='Host Isolation';E={$_.HAIsolationResponse}},

    @{N='Permanent Device Loss';E={$script:ha.VmComponentProtectionSettings.VmStorageProtectionForPDL}}

[PichuginDK]

Thank you for what you need!

[PichuginDK]

Everything turned out to be simpler, you can use the "code capture", which is in vSphere HTML5 Web Client

vSphere HTML5 Web Client | VMware Flings

[LucD]

I don't see how this is related?
Code Capture provides code for a single view of 1 VM, not the logic to get the values for all VMs in a cluster.

[terametrix]

Hello:

Regarding this same topic, can someone provide some guidance on how to set parameters for VM Overrides using powercli ? Like say VM Readiness - Ready condition to poweredOn for example ?

[LucD]

You might have a look at https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-PowerCLI-Discussions/Setting-VM-overrides-through-PowerCLI/...