HI,
I'm getting an error when recreating a VM, but before I can show what that error is, I need to explain a couple of things. Please bear with me :
We are testing our Disaster/Recovery procedures using VMware clusters located at two different sites by means of Powershell./PowerCLI.
For this, before the actual test, we storage-vmotion the VMs that need to be moved to the other site to a special lun on site 1. Data on this lun is being replicated to site 2 (HDS storage).
Next we bring down those VMs, split the storage path so the lun becomes available for VMware on site 2, and mount the special lun on site 2.
Then we initiate a Create-VM on site 2 so the VMs will become available on site 2.
Next, and this is what my question will be about, we need to reapply the network portgroup settings for each VM.
The particular code for this part is as follows :
$a = @()
$n = Get-Networkadapter -Server $DestinServer -VM $VMName
ForEach ($nic in $n.Name) {
$a += $nic.Substring($nic.Length - 1)
}
ForEach ($nr in $a) {
$str = "Network adapter $nr"
ForEach ($nic in $n) {
If ($str -eq $nic.Name) {
write-host "Setting $str to value " (Get-Variable -Name VMNIC$nr).Value
if ((Get-Variable -Name CNCT$nr).Value -eq "True") {
$connectstate = 1
} else {
$connectstate = 0
}
$nic | Set-NetworkAdapter -StartConnected $connectstate -Confirm:$false
$nic | Set-NetworkAdapter -Portgroup (Get-variable -Name VMNic$nr).Value -Confirm:$false
}
}
}
Earlier in the script I have created variables that contain the name of the network (e.g. $VMNic1 with value VLAN_120, $VMNic2 with value VLAN_100, etc) and whether this NIC was in the connected state (e.g. $CNCT1 with value True, $CNCT2 with value False, etc)
So, in a loop I'm applying the "old" network settings that were in effect on site 1 to the VMs on site 2.
Doing this, I am getting the following error :
The object or item referred DVS d7 ac 3a 50 a1 0c fb b1-a0 98 23 54 d1 cd 22 be cannot be found
(Also, see attached screenprint)
I can't find where this error is coming from, and strangely enough, after having issued the error the command does what I want it to do after all.
At first I thought that the error was generated due to the fact that I was connected to two vCenters (giving me one error and one ok message), but I rewrote my script so I am sure that I am connected to only one vCenter at a time (which is more correct when you are in a real D/R situation anyway). Still got the same message. Also, when reverting the entire situation (going back from site 2 to site 1) I got the same error again, but the command again also just worked.
To make things even more strange: when I replay the entire situation but with different VMs, I do not get the error....
So, in my opinion there is something fishy concerning the specific set of VMs used in the first run and the correlation of those VMs with a Virtual Switch.
A correlation that obviously does not exist with the VMs used in the second test.
Can anyone please tell me where to look for this correlation, and how to handle it in my D/R script ?
Since the command does work, although I get an error first, is it ok to just ignore this error and do a silentlycontinue ?
Hope my story was clear enough...
Thanks,
Hans
Moderator edit by wila: Moved thread to PowerCLI discussions area
