To add a vm into a drs rule VMHostAffinity

[chiisaryuu]

Hi,

How do I add a VM in a VMHostAffinity drs rule with powercli?

I tried with follows commands:

    $vm = Get-VM M2-MVVIEW1

    Set-DrsRule -Rule $affinityRule -VM $vm -Enabled $true;

but it didn't work, show a error message

    Set-DrsRule : 16/11/2016 12:02:54    Set-DrsRule        Unsupported rule type. Only VMAffinityRule and VMAntiAffinityRule types are

    supported.   

    At line:1 char:1

    + Set-DrsRule -Rule $affinityRule -VM $vm -Enabled $true

    + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Set-DrsRule], InvalidArgument

        + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ViCore_ComputeResourceServiceImpl_SetDrsRule_UnsupportedRuleType,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands

       .SetDrsRule

[LucD]

How did you get the rule in the $affinityRule variable?

Is there only one object in that variable?

[chiisaryuu]

follow:

$affinityRule | select *

VMIds             : {VirtualMachine-vm-4025, VirtualMachine-vm-4027, VirtualMachine-vm-4057, VirtualMachine-vm-4068...}

AffineHostIds     : {HostSystem-host-421, HostSystem-host-423, HostSystem-host-425, HostSystem-host-427...}

AntiAffineHostIds :

Key               : 202

Uid               : /VIServer=domain\user@vcdp7:443/Cluster=ClusterComputeResource-domain-c26/DrsVMHostAffinityRule=202/

Cluster           : VDI_Cluster_01

ClusterId         : ClusterComputeResource-domain-c26

ClusterUid        : /VIServer=domain\user@vcdp7:443/Cluster=ClusterComputeResource-domain-c26/

Name              : VMS_TO_HOSTS_MM2

Enabled           : True

Mandatory         : False

Type              : VMHostAffinity

ExtensionData     : VMware.Vim.ClusterVmHostRuleInfo

Client            : VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.VimClient

[LucD · Accepted solution]

You're trying to change a VM to Host affinity rule, that is currently not supported by the DRSRule cmdlets in PowerCLI.

We, Matt and myself, wrote a module that will allow you to create and maintain all DRS rules.

See the DRSRule module.

[chiisaryuu]

tks LucD,

But I can not run this module.

Show this message:

Get-ClusterObjFromClusterParam : The term 'Get-ClusterObjFromClusterParam' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script

file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

At C:\Users\me\DRSRule\DRSRule-Latest\DRSRule.psm1:155 char:5

+     Get-ClusterObjFromClusterParam -Cluster $Cluster | ForEach-Object ...

+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Get-ClusterObjFromClusterParam:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

[LucD]

That function is defined in the DRSRuleUtil module.

This is a nested module in the DRSRule module, as defined in the DRSRule.manifest.

I notice you loaded the DRSRule module in a user directory, is that directory listed in the $env:PSModulePath variable?

[chiisaryuu]

LucD, it was very helpfull!

Tks again.