I've got a lab put together with three different Sites A, B, and C. Each has it's own vCenter (working on an SRM project).
I put together a script that SnapShot's a VM in site B, but keep running into an error. Thing is, it works in site A and site C just fine. And, it works when run in the PowerGui Script Editor for Site B! But, when I run it in PowerCLI, I get this error:
New-Snapshot : 10/19/2011 1:18:30 AM New-Snapshot An item with the same key has already been added.
At C:\SRMScripts\VMClone.ps1:31 char:27
+ $clonesnap = New-Snapshot <<<< -Name "DO NOT DELETE - Clone Snapshot" -VM $vm
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [New-Snapshot], VimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.NewSnapshot
The other odd thing is that even when it throws this error, vCenter still takes the SnapShot of the VM with no error in vCenter. But because the command doesn't return a SnapShot object, the subsequent steps fail.
Here's the code up until the point where the error occurs. Help is appreciated:
param (
[parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$SourceName,
[parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$vcRecoveryServer,
[parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$testNetwork
)
connect-viserver $vcRecoveryServer
$vm = Get-VM $SourceName
$clonesnap = $null
# Create new snapshot for clone
try{
$clonesnap = New-Snapshot -Name "DO NOT DELETE - Clone Snapshot" -VM $vm
} catch {
#Most of the time when this fails, the SnapShot was still created, lets see if it's there
Start-Sleep -Seconds 120
$clonesnap = Get-Snapshot -Name "DO NOT DELETE - Clone Snapshot" -VM $vm -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue
} finally {
if($clonesnap -eq $null){throw "Failed creating SnapShot."}
}
