PowerCLI & host name

[Mike-S]

Hello,

I am in the process of upgrading my ESX 3.5 hosts to ESXi 4. I am creating a powershell script to automate the setup of the virtual switches , port groups, NTP etc. All is going well but I can not determine how to set the host name or Search Domains for the ESXi host using PowerCLI commands.

Can somebody please assist me?

Cheers

[DougBaer]

I do not believe there is a cmdlet for this. You're talking about the NetworkSystem.

Connect-VIServer ESX_HOSTNAME
$HS = Get-View -VIObject (Get-VMHost ESX_HOSTNAME)
$NS = Get-View $HS.ConfigManager.NetworkSystem
$NS.DnsConfig

You'll probably need to create a HostDnsConfig object and pass it to UpdateDnsConfig.

If that isn't enough to nudge you in the right direction, this may be:

$dnsconfig = $NS.NetworkConfig.DnsConfig # copy the existing values

$dnsConfig.hostName = "MYHOSTNAME"
$dnsConfig.domainName = "MYLAB.LOCAL"
$dnsConfig.SearchDomain = ("MYDOMAIN.AZ.US","AZ.US")

$NS.UpdateDnsConfig($dnsConfig)

Good luck

[admin]

(Moved to PowerCLI community)

You can get this with Get-VMHostNetwork.

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