Vmware PowerCLI | Select datastore in "Heartbeat datastores" wizard.

[airaqi]

Hi,

Can i get a help with vmware powercli to check 3 the datastores in "heartbeat datastores" as you can see in the attached shot:

Thanks

[LucD]

You could do something like this

$clusterName = 'cluster'

$cluster = Get-Cluster -Name $clusterName

$haConf = $cluster.ExtensionData.RetrieveDasAdvancedRuntimeInfo()

$haConf.HeartbeatDatastoreInfo |

Select @{N='Datastore';E={(Get-View -Id $_.Datastore -Property Name).Name}},

    @{N='Hosts mounting datastore';E={$_.Hosts.Count}},

    @{N='VMHost';E={(Get-View -Id $_.Hosts -Property Name).Name -join ' | '}}

[airaqi]

Thanks for the quick answer. after executing your answer i got list of two datastores but they are not checked:

what i need to do more to have the boxes checked?

Thanks

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Are all datastores mounted on all ESXi nodes in the cluster?

The numbers don't seem to correspond (4 vs 2).

And do you want to exclude a specific datastore?

The following defines all possible datastores as heartbeat datastores.

If you want to exclude a specific datastore, the code needs to be adapted with a Where-clause.

$clusterName = 'cluster'

$cluster = Get-Cluster -Name $clusterName

$haConf = $cluster.ExtensionData.RetrieveDasAdvancedRuntimeInfo()

$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.ClusterConfigSpec

$Spec.DasConfig = New-Object VMware.Vim.ClusterDasConfigInfo

$haConf.HeartbeatDatastoreInfo |

ForEach-Object -Process {

    $spec.DasConfig.HeartbeatDatastore += $_.Datastore

}

$cluster.ExtensionData.ReconfigureCluster($spec,$true)

[airaqi]

Thanks with some modification in my ESX and your answer i managed to checked them