A powercli script I was using to add a standalone ESXi host to vCenter when running v6.5 apparently doesn't work when running it on an 7.0 install. I'm trying this using PCLI v12.2.
When trying to add the vmk2 interface I get this error:
A specified parameter was not correct: argument[3]
At C:\vmware\deployment\Deploy-C2.ps1:59 char:2
+ $esxcli.network.ip.interface.add($null,$null,"vmk2",$null,$MTU,"v ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (:) [], InvalidArgument
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.ErrorHandling.InvalidArgument
The chunk of script that used to work is below. Is there a more elegant way to do what I'm trying to achieve?
# Create vMotion TCP/IP Stack and vmkernel
Write-host "Creating vmotion TCP/IP Stack and adding vMotion vmkernel." -ForegroundColor Yellow
$esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $VHost
$esxcli.network.ip.netstack.add($null,"vmotion") | Out-Null
New-VirtualSwitch -VMHost $VHost -Name "temp" | Out-Null
New-VirtualPortGroup -VirtualSwitch (Get-VirtualSwitch -VMHost $VHost -Name "temp") -Name "temp" -VLanId "999" | Out-Null
$esxcli.network.ip.interface.add($null,$null,"vmk2",$null,$MTU,"vmotion","temp") | Out-Null
Start-Sleep -Seconds 2
$esxcli.network.ip.interface.ipv4.set($null,"vmk2",$vMotionIP,$Netmask,$null,"static") | Out-Null
Start-Sleep -Seconds 2
$esxcli.network.ip.route.ipv4.add("10.9.99.1","vmotion","default") | Out-Null
Start-Sleep -Seconds 10
Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -PortGroup (Get-VDPortgroup -Name ("vMotion_999").Replace("/","%2f") -VDSwitch $dvSwitch) -VirtualNic (Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -Name "vmk2" -VMHost $VHost) -confirm:$false | Out-Null
Start-Sleep -Seconds 2
Get-VirtualSwitch -Name 'temp' -VMHost $VHost | Remove-VirtualSwitch -Confirm:$false | Out-Null
Also, is there a convenient method in PowerCLI to copy NFS4 mount points from another host so I can mount them on this host? The previous method I used was with NFS3 but with NFS4 I've got multiple IPs to the backend storage so the same command doesn't work.
Thanks in advance.
