Help with new-vmhostnetworkadapter command

[BarryCoombs]

Hi,

Have only started playing with the vi toolkit / powershell in the last couple of days and am really enjoying it! After playing around with lots of scripts I am starting to write my own automation script for setting up new hosts. I am doing ok but have got stuck with this command.

If I type

new-vmhostnetwork adapter -vmhost testhost.demo -virtualswitch iscsi -portgroup vmkernel -ip 172.16.100.1 -subnetmask 255.255.255.0

I get the following error

New-VMHostNetworkAdapter : Cannot bind parameter 'VirtualSwitch'. Cannot convert value "iscsi" to type "VMware.VimAutomation.Types.Host.VirtualSwitch". Error: "Invalid cast from 'System.String' to 'VMware.VimAutomation.Types.Host.VirtualSwitch'."

I'm probably mis-understanding part of the help.

Cheers

Barry

VCP

[admin · Accepted solution]

Hi Barry, you've stumbled across an inconsistency in the toolkit.

Many objects can be identified simply by name. For instance, you can say New-VM -Datastore mydatastore and the proper datastore will be used.

There are some objects that do not support this. Unfortunately VirtualSwitch is one of them. I believe PortGroup is as well.

To deal with this, use this pattern:

-virtualswitch (get-virtualswitch iscsi)

-portgroup (get-virtualportgroup mygroup)

This behavior is going to improve in future versions of the toolkit, but this is the way to go for now.

[BarryCoombs]

Worked a treat, many thanks

VCP