Sorting VM's into Resource Pools

[piercj2]

Hi

I have a list of VM's, Resource Pools, CPU Share Level in the RP and, Memory Share Level forthe Resource Pools

Below is an example

$list contains

VmName	ResourcePool	CpuShare	MemShare
MyVM1	Low Priority	Low	Low
MyVM2	Normal Priority	Normal	Normal
MyVM3	High Priority	High	High

All the VM's exist within the same Cluster but, are not necessarily in the correct Resource Pool

All of the Resource Pools may not even exist

How can I check to see if a Resource Pool exists within the Cluster,

• if it doesn't, have it created with the correct CPU/Mem Share levels (no Custom Levels defined)
• Move the respective VM into it

What I've come up with is

$list = import-csv $BiggerListofVMDetails | select VmName, ResourcePool, CpuShare,MemShare

foreach ($item in $list) {

     if (  (get-cluster $cluster | get-resourcepool | select Name) -ne $item.ResourcePool ) {

          write "The RP does not exist in the Cluster, need to create it"

          new-resourcepool -location $cluster -name $item.ResourcePool -CpuShareLevel $item.CpuShare -MemShareLevel $item.MemShare

          write "the RP has been created, time to move the VM into it"

     }

     move-vm $item.VmName -destination $item.ResourcePool

}

Thanks

[LucD]

You could use a Try-Catch construct, something like this

foreach($item in Import-Csv $BiggerListofVMDetails){

    Try{

        Get-ResourcePool -Name $item.ResourcePool -EorroAction Stop

    }

    Catch{

        Write-Host "The RP does not exist in the Cluster, need to create it"

        New-ResourcePool -Name $item.ResourcePool -CpuShareLevel $item.CpuShare -MemShareLevel $item.MemShare

        Write-Host "the RP has been created, time to move the VM into it"

    }

    Move-VM $item.VmName -Destination $item.ResourcePool

}