Unprotect a VM using UnprotectVms(VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference[] vms) Method

[winsolo]

Is there a way to call these methods to unprotect and unassociate a particular VM from a protection group?

I was looking at one of the old blogs about it in PowerCLI 5.5 R2 and the Site Recovery Manager API - VMware vSphere Blog and wasn't able to construct a way to unprotect VM from a group, although I was just able to get all the VMs with their protection groups associated with.

$SrmConnection=Connect-SrmServer

$SrmApi = $SrmConnection.ExtensionData

$ProtectionGroups = $SrmApi.Protection.ListProtectionGroups()

foreach($PG in $ProtectionGroups) {

    $PG.ListProtectedVMs() | Select @{N='ProtectionGroup';E={($PG.GetInfo().Name)}},VmName,State,PeerState

}

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Using the protectiongroup you have in $pg, can't you do.

$vm = Get-VM -Name MyVM

$pg.UnprotectVms($vm.ExtensionData.MoRef)

Or if you want to unprotected all VMs in a group

$pg.ListProtectedVms() |

ForEach-Object -Process {

    $pg.UnprotectVms($_.vm.MoRef)

}

Or alternatively

$protVM = $pg.ListProtectedVms()

$pg.UnprotectVms($protVM.vm.MoRef)

[winsolo]

Even though $PG and $vm do have values, calling the method $pg.UnprotectVms($vm.ExtensionData.MoRef) doesn't work.

[winsolo]

Sorry, I used a wrong value. Instead of using "get-vm TESTVM21" for $vm, I used the value of "$ProtectionGroups[3].ListProtectedVms()"

It works.