Disable system swap settings esxi

[bansne]

Hi,

Is there a way to disable system swap setting on each esxi in vCenter Server.

i can do one by one using Esxi-->Configure-->System swap. But how to do for all in cluster.

i can only see option to find where it is active.

foreach($esx in Get-VMHost){

  $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $esx

  $esxcli.sched.swap.system.get() | Select @{N='VMHost';E={$esx.Name}},HostLocalSwapActive

}

not much of use.

[LucD]

Did you try like this?

$clusterName = 'cluster'

Get-Cluster -Name $clusterName |

Get-VMHost |

ForEach-Object -Process {

    $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $_ -V2

    $swap = @{

        datastoreenabled= $false

        hostcacheenabled = $false

        hostlocalswapenabled = $false

    }

    $esxcli.sched.swap.system.set.Invoke($swap)

}

[bansne]

sure let me give this a try...

Regards

[bansne]

Hi,

It worked , getting output like below , and setting is disabled on cluster

true

true

true

true

true

true

true

true

true

is there way to give details like hostname and on which host its true and on which it was not applicable.

lastly is there single liner to restart services.sh on all host. after above is done.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

If you can use the SSH service on each ESXi node and if you have the Posh-SSH module installed, you could do

$clusterName = 'cluster'

$user = 'root'

$pswd = 'VMware1!'

$cmd = 'services.sh restart'

$cred = New-Object -TypeName PSCredential -ArgumentList $user,(ConvertTo-SecureString -String $pswd -AsPlainText -Force)

Get-Cluster -Name $clusterName |

Get-VMHost |

ForEach-Object -Process {

    $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $_ -V2

    $swap = @{

        datastoreenabled= $false

        hostcacheenabled = $false

        hostlocalswapenabled = $false

    }

    $esxcli.sched.swap.system.set.Invoke($swap) |

    Select @{N='VMHost';E={$esxcli.VMHost.Name}},

        @{N='Swap Change Success';E={$_}},

        @{N='Service Restart Exit Status';E={

            $oldState = Get-VMHostService -VMHost $esxcli.VMHost.Name | where{$_.Key -eq 'TSM-SSH'}

            if(-not $oldState.Running){

                Start-VMHostService -HostService $oldState -Confirm:$false

            }

            $session = New-SSHSession -ComputerName $esxcli.VMHost.Name -Credential $cred –AcceptKey -ConnectionTimeout 15

            $result = Invoke-SSHCommand -SSHSession $session -Command $cmd

            Remove-SSHSession -SSHSession $session | Out-Null

            if(-not $oldState.Running){

                Stop-VMHostService -HostService $oldState -Confirm:$false

            }

            $result.ExitStatus

        }}

}

[bansne]

awsome , let me run this and get back to you

Thanks alot

[bansne]

thanks for all your help. Worked like charm.

Not sure after services.sh ideally it should disconnect and reconnect host but didn't do it this time. Wonder if it is actually restarting service.

[LucD]

You could check in the /var/log/ jumpstart-stdout.log