Been googling around for some time and not found a method to accomplish total task of using a script to create and deploy cluster
1) Script base to read from CSV and variable creation
############### Variables ########################################
Import-CSV vmhosts.csv | ForEach-Object {
$sacluster = $_.sacluster
$vcenter = $_.vcenter
$cluster = $_.cluster
$datacenter = $_.datacenter
$sapassword = $_.sapassword
$esxpassword = $_.esxpassword
}
################ End Variables ###################################
############## Connect to vCenter ################################
connect-viserver $vcenter
############ End Connect to vCenter ##############################
2) create Cluster
Write-Host "Creating Datacenter $datacenter" -ForegroundColor green
$location = Get-Folder -NoRecursion
New-Cluster -Location $datacenter -Name $cluster -DRSEnabled -DrsAutomationLevel FullyAutomated
3) Add hosts into cluster object / container
Import-CSV vmhosts.csv | ForEach-Object {
$hostname = $_.vmhost
Write-Host "Adding ESX Host $hostname to $datacenter" -ForegroundColor green
Add-VMHost -Name $hostname -Location (Get-cluster $cluster) -User root -Password $esxpassword -Force -RunAsync -Confirm:$false
# Move vSphere host from datacenter level under cluster level
## << Bug in that i want it to place hosts in "$cluster" >>
## Set-VMHost -VMHost $hostname -State "Maintenance"
Get-VMHost -Name $hostname | Move-VMHost -Destination $cluster
}
** Above step three is broken in that "Get-cluster" as location does not work.
| cluster object target |
|---|
PowerCLI C:\HCScripts> Add-VMHost -Name $hostname -Location (Get-Datacenter $cluster) -User root -Password $esxpassword -Force -RunAsync -Confirm:$false Get-Datacenter : 8/1/2016 1:30:03 PM Get-Datacenter Datacenter with name 'cluster' was not found using the specified filter(s). At line:1 char:39 + Add-VMHost -Name $hostname -Location (Get-Datacenter $cluster) -User root -Passw ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (:) [Get-Datacenter], VimException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_OutputHelper_WriteNotFoundError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.GetDat acenter Add-VMHost : 8/1/2016 1:30:03 PM Add-VMHost Value cannot be found for the mandatory parameter Location At line:1 char:1 + Add-VMHost -Name $hostname -Location (Get-Datacenter $cluster) -User root -Passw ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Add-VMHost], VimException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.AddVMHost |
but if I change to dump the hosts NOT into a cluster, but a datacenter, it works fine.
| datacenter object target |
|---|
PowerCLI C:\HCScripts> Add-VMHost -Name $hostname -Location (Get-Datacenter $datacenter) -User root -Password $esxpassw rd -Force -RunAsync -Confirm:$false Name State % Complete Start Time Finish Time ---- ----- ---------- ---------- ----------- AddStandaloneHost_Task Running 0 01:31:53 PM PowerCLI C:\HCScripts> PowerCLI C:\HCScripts> |
It creates Datacenter, Cluster object, but I can't get the hosts to add into the context of the cluster.
I read that the hosts may have to be in maintenance mode and this can have some other script implications, I can address that but at this stage their are no VMs... fresh installations.
Thanks,
