Where are vFRC cmdlets for PowerCLI 6?

[WIjamman]

In 5.5 we added a fling to PowerCLI to enable VSAN and vFRC Cmdlets.

Get-HardDiskVFlashConfiguration

Get-VMHostVFlashConfiguration

Set-HardDiskVFlashConfiguration

Set-VMHostVFlashConfiguration

Now that we are on the vSphere 6 platform the Cmdlets are not built into PowerCLI 6 nor will the old VMware.VimAutomation.Extensions import...

Am I missing something?

Does anyone know how to use PowerCLI 6 to modify vFRC?

[dgwhite]

Any resolution to this? I can use the VimAutomation.Extensions as well.

This is the version I'm running:

PowerCLI Version

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   VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.0 Release 2 build 3056836

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Component Versions

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   VMWare AutoDeploy PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2358282

   VMWare ImageBuilder PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2358282

   VMware vSphere PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 3052101

   VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 3052101

   VMware VDS PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 3052101

   VMware vCloud Director PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 3041812

   VMware HA PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2591578

   VMware License PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2998043

   VMware vCloud Air PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 3041812

   VMware PowerCLI Component for Storage Management 6.0 build 2966225

   VMware vROps PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 3056837

   VMware vSphere Update Manager PowerCLI 6.0 build 2943165

Thx,

Dan

[yoda2013]

I have the same issue - I had scripts that used Get-HardDiskVFlashConfiguration that don't work anymore with the v6.0

Any help. Anybody?

Thanks.

Krish.

[vThinkBeyondVM]

Hi All,

   I just over-viewed PowerCLI 6.0 reference and I do not see any CMDLETs for managing vFRC.

Below are the ESXCLI commands to manage the same

Monitoring vSphere Flash Read Cache

ESXCLI Commands

Some time back, I have written Java samples using vSphere API@vFRC. It may help you.

vThinkBVM-scripts/GetvFlashReadCacheRunTimeInfoForVM.java at master · vThinkBeyondVM/vThinkBVM-scrip...

vThinkBVM-scripts/GetvFlashResourceInfoOnHost.java at master · vThinkBeyondVM/vThinkBVM-scripts · Gi...

If you must need this management using PowerCLI, we can write scripts using View-Objects. Also, I will take this feedback and pass to the PowerCLI team in order to add cmdlets.

Let me know if you want me to write vFRC management scripts using View-Object, I would be happy to help.

[andyclure]

Is there anyway to actually get this configured in PowerCLI? We use PowerCLI for all our automation so have invested masses of time and money getting this working, no when we come to enable flash read cache on 600 VMs we can't use our tool of choice because VMware, in their wisdom, think it's OK to remove the functionality that was once there in PowerCLI 5.5.

getting very frustrated with VMware at the moment. There seems to be an ever increasing list of bugs with no fix and features which cannot be managed. What on earth are we paying support subscriptions for????

[alanrenouf]

Andy,

Im sorry you are experiencing these issues, the VFRC cmdlets have always been part of the PowerCLI Extensions which can be downloaded from here: PowerCLI Extensions – VMware Labs

It looks like there was an issue with the wording on that fling which I have now fixed, please do let me know if you have an issues accessing the fling and getting it to work with the later versions of PowerCLI.

Alan