Hi,
We are doing a storage port re-balancing and as part of that i want to disable FEW storage paths from each ESXi from ONE ESXi host cluster as the storage team assigned new storage paths to the same set of LUN's. I could see all new paths now. Storage team want to pull back the old paths. I want to disable the old paths from a set of ESX Hosts(part of same cluster) before storage team pull back the paths.
I have 60 paths for each HBA and 2 HBA's for each ESXi host which makes a total of 120 paths. Storage team gave the storage path information which i have to disable and i could see them on each HBA.
I tried doing it from powercli script but for some reason it is not working.
We are using ESXi 5 Update 3.
Is there an easy way to do this without manually disabling 120 times for ESXi host?
-Shivaji
Would you mind sharing the script you used, and the eventual messages it produced ?
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LucD,
I dont get any output.
$tgtHBA = "vmhba2"
$tgtPortWWN = "5764617912562315608"
Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk | where {$_.RuntimeName.Contains($tgtHBA)} |Get-ScsiLunPath | where
{$_.Extensiondata.Transport.PortWorldWideName -eq $tgtPortWWN} |Set-ScsiLunPath -Active:$false
Here is the link i followed. This was updated by you in 2011 🙂
Re: Disabling paths to migrate all FC storage connections to specified port on HBA
-Gurram
From where are you running that script ? From the PowerCLI prompt ?
Any error messages ?
Which vSphere and PowerCLI version are you using ?
Just ran that script, and it seems to work without a hitch for me.
The script should output something like this (the State property is the one to watch for)
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Ok. Good.
I have PowerCLI 5.1 release 1 and ESXi 5.0.0, 1311175
Can you please share me the exact script.
-Gurram
I am running the script from vCenter server.
-Gurram
Ok, I think I know what happens.
You placed that script in a PS1 file, correct ?
You seem to call the PS1 file from the PowerCLI prompt, but it looks as if you typed "<dot><blank>\disable_paths.ps1".
Is that correct ?
If the PS1 file is stored in the folder where you are located (C:\Scripts\PowerCLI\Shivaji), then you should type
.\disable_paths.ps1
at the PowerCLI prompt. No blank between the dot and the back-slash.
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yes it is a PS1 file but there is no blank in between dot and back-slash.
-Gurram
Is your PowerShell execution poicy set correctly ? Do a
Get-ExecutionPolicy
Are you connected to a vSphere server ? Do a
$global:DefaultVIServer
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Get-ExecutionPolicy shows unrestricted
$global:DefaultVIServer shows my vCenterServer.
Then I'm afraid I'm at the end of my ideas.
The only thing I could suggest, try to execute the lines in the PS1 file, one by one directly from the PowerCLI prompt.
Curious to see if that works.
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