Set to manual the DRS for a group of VMs

[zenivox]

Hello I need to ensure a group of VMs provided by a txt or csv file (placed on different vClusters) will have their DRS set Manual. So they won't automatically vMotion. I had a look at William Lam post and I used his Disable-vSphereMethod function:

https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2016/07/how-to-easily-disable-vmotion-cross-vcenter-vmotion-for-a-pa...

but apart from not producing any result (no errors either), I'm not sure it is exactly what I'm looking for. It seems that acts on disabling a method which is available for a given VM entity. What I'm trying to achieve is at cluster level I believe. However I cannot find anything in the mob that can help me. I used to help myself with Onyx but we recently migrated to 6.5. I think it is probably PlaceVM but not sure ..

However is there a way to achieve this via pure PowerCLI?

[LucD · Accepted solution]

There are two options here, disable the vMotion altogether (William's post) or disallow automatic vMotion of the VM through DRS.

For the 2nd option you could use the following

Import-Csv -Path C:\Temp\vmnames.csv -UseCulture | %{

    Get-VM -Name $_.Name | Set-VM -DrsAutomationLevel Manual -Confirm;$false

}

Note that this only affects DRS, a user will still be able to 'migrate' the VM through the Web Client or with a Move-VM cmdlet.