apd and pdl_powercli

[jvm2016]

Hi Luc,

have you tried to increase apd value in seconds through powercli .if yu could suggest some way and if it is recommended to change default value of 120 seconds

[LucD]

Afaik, the default value is 140 seconds.

You can change that value with this snippet.

But note that this timeout is only used when Misc.APDHandlingEnable is set to 1.
Cormac has a great post on this, see vSphere 5.1 Storage Enhancements – Part 4: All Paths Down (APD)

$clusterName = 'cluster'

Get-Cluster -Name $clusterName |

Get-VMHost |

ForEach-Object -Process {

    Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity $_ -Name 'Misc.APDTimeout' |

    Set-AdvancedSetting -Value 150 -Confirm:$false

}

If this is advisable?
It all depends (doesn't it always).
The blog post VM Component Protection (VMCP) describes the concept in detail and should allow one to make a decission.
I would, in any case, advise checking with support before changing any of these settings.