PowerCLI 5 and Distributed Switches

[michigun]

Hi.

I can't find a comandlets tocreating and working with dvSwitches in PowerCLI 5.

Were these commands removed from current version of PowerCLI?

[admin]

Hi,

istributedSwitch  object is returned by Get-VirtualSwitch and can specifiy a parameter "Distributed"

You can modify them using  Set-VirtualSwitch

Check documentation about DistributedSwitch object -> here

The DistributedSwitch object refers to virtual switches and you can use them with:

Get-VM, Get-VMHost, etc

I think all you need is there, only may be with different names if you looked for Get-DistributedVirtualSwitch.

Do these cmdlets cover you cases ?

Best regards,

Leni Kirilov

PowerCLI Team

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[michigun]

Thanks.

But I confused a little - can't find how I can create dvSwitch and several PG on top.

[admin]

Hi,

The cmdlet you need is New-VirtualPortGroup

Check its example:

vswitch =  New-VirtualSwitch -VMHost 10.23.114.234 -Name VSwitch 

$vportgroup =  New-VirtualPortGroup -VirtualSwitch $vswitch  -Name VPortGroup

I think this is what you need.

Best regards,

Leni Kirilov

PowerCLI Team

[michigun]

I need to create Distributed Switch first,

and then several Port Groups.

This command can create only standart switch - I tryed it.

[admin · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You are right. The example is about a standard switch.

Currently there is no suppost for creating virtual distributed switch using PowerCLI cmdlets
but there is a team that is working on them, but they are not released yet.

Best regards,
Leni Kirilov

PowerCLI Team

[michigun]

May be it will helpful for someone:

The Author of the Power CLI book create the special module for working with dvSwitches.

It is possible to buy the book and download this module here.

Who want to buy this book - I strongly recommend to buy the electronic version (I have both version from amazon) - because analog book with 700+ pages with listings is incredible to use.

But the book is useful, I like it.

[admin]

Hi,

thank you for the link to the book.

Although we don't have a separate cmdlet for this functionality

we have posted a blog on how you can do this using the Views.

Check the post here:

http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2010/07/vds-in-powercli-41.html

It has a direct copy-paste function.

I hope you like it.

Best regards,

Leni Kirilov

PowerCLI Team

[michigun]

Thank you, looks very interesting.

[LucD]

Thanks for linking to our book.

I think you will find the dvSwitch module very useful.

You can also have a look at some of my dvSwitch related blog posts.