Hi,
I'm trying to get the NICTeamingPolicy of a specific PortGroup from a particular vSwitch iSCSISwitch to change it's active NIC preference, this works using the code below, however, I also receive a message of deprecation and suggests to use VMHostNetworkAdapter which also has PortGroupName property. The below error does not appear if I only use the command $VMHosts | Get-VirtualPortGroup -Name iSCSI1.
PS C:\Users\Administrator> $VMHosts = Get-Cluster "iSCSI_Cluster" | Get-VMHost
PS C:\Users\Administrator> $VMHosts | Get-VirtualPortGroup -Name iSCSI1 | Get-NicTeamingPolicy | Set-NicTeamingPolicy -MakeNicActive vmnic3
WARNING: The 'PhysicalNic' property of VMHostNetworkInfo type is deprecated. Use 'Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter' cmdlet instead.
VirtualPortGroup ActiveNic StandbyNic UnusedNic FailbackEnabled NotifySwitches
---------------- --------- ---------- --------- --------------- --------------
iSCSI1 {vmnic3} {vmnic4} True True
iSCSI1 {vmnic3} {vmnic4} True True
However, when I try to use the VMHostNetworkAdapter and get its PortGroupName property as follows and use it for Get-NICTeamingPolicy I get an input object error.
PS C:\Users\Administrator> $VMHosts | Get-VirtualSwitch -Name iSCSISwitch | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter | Select-Object -Property PortGroupName | Where {$_.PortGroupName -eq "iSCSI1"} | Get-NICTeamingPolicy
Get-NICTeamingPolicy : The input object cannot be bound to any parameters for the command either because the command does not take pipeline input or the input and its properties do not match any of the parameters that take pipeline input.
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+ ... upName | Where {$_.PortGroupName -eq "iSCSI1"} | Get-NICTeamingPolicy
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (@{PortGroupName=iSCSI1}:PSObject) [Get-NicTeamingPolicy], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InputObjectNotBound,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.Host.GetNicTeamingPolicy
Get-NICTeamingPolicy : The input object cannot be bound to any parameters for the command either because the command does not take pipeline input or the input and its properties do not match any of the parameters that take pipeline input.
At line:1 char:157
+ ... upName | Where {$_.PortGroupName -eq "iSCSI1"} | Get-NICTeamingPolicy
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (@{PortGroupName=iSCSI1}:PSObject) [Get-NicTeamingPolicy], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InputObjectNotBound,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.Host.GetNicTeamingPolicy
When I use the Get-Member it asks for a VirtualSwitch, thus I'm assuming Get-NICTeamingPolicy uses a Switch output, but again it does not ask for switch when used with Get-VirtualPortGroup.
PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-nicteamingpolicy | get-member
get-nicteamingpolicy : 10 Nov 2019 7:59:30 PM Get-NicTeamingPolicy Value cannot be found for the mandatory parameter VirtualSwitch
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+ get-nicteamingpolicy | get-member
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-NicTeamingPolicy], VimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.Host.GetNicTeamingPolicy
The reason for doing this is that there is a Teaming And Failover for the Switch as well (seen below) which is not at all related to the Port Group, and I'm setting Port Group Teaming And Failover for iSCSI Network Port Binding compatibility.
Is there a different command to access it, or am I missing something. This is what I'm trying to set via PowerCLI, the Teaming And Failover Order in the Port Group (seen below).
