Cannot find any way to change network adapter speed in Powercli

[bbarbee9]

Hi,

I have been lookin thru the powerCLI reference located here

Online Documentation - Cmdlet Reference - VMware {code}

I see the command Set-NetworkAdapter, but I do not see anyway to control speed.

Here is a screenshot of what settings I am trying to modify

Thanks in advance

Brian

[LucD · Accepted solution]

No cmdlet for that, you'll have to use the API.

Something like this for example.

Note that the values need to be in Mbps

$vmName = 'MyVM'

$nicName = 'Network adapter 1'

$limitGbps = 8

$reservationGbps = 2

$vm = Get-VM -Name $vmName

$nic = Get-NetworkAdapter -VM $vm -Name $nicName

$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

$dev = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec

$dev.Operation = [VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation]::edit

$dev.Device = $nic.ExtensionData

$dev.Device.ResourceAllocation.Limit = $limitGbps * 1KB

$dev.Device.ResourceAllocation.Reservation = $reservationGbps * 1KB

$spec.DeviceChange += $dev

$vm.ExtensionData.ReconfigVM($spec)

[bbarbee9]

Again, Thank you LucD