Add ip route in vRO

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I am trying to add a new route to our ESXi host using vRO. I've tried a few different things, but nothing seems to be working. My current script successfully launches a task to 'update the IP route table configuration', but the changes are not applied.

Before anyone suggests it, I am already calling a powershell script to use the 'New-VMHostRoute' cmdlet, but I want to do this via the API, and remove powershell altogether.

Has anyone done this before?

Current script:

var configmanager = host.configManager;
var networkSystem = configmanager.networkSystem;
var netStackArray = networkSystem.networkConfig.netStackSpec;

for each (var netStack in netStackArray) {

System.log(netStack.netStackInstance.name);
if (netStack.netStackInstance.name == "defaultTcpipStack") {
  var routeTableConfig = netStack.netStackInstance.routeTableConfig;
 
  //Build IP route entry
  myRoute = new VcHostIpRouteEntry() ;
  myRoute.deviceName = "vmk0" ;
  myRoute.gateway = "192.168.1.1";
  myRoute.network = "192.168.1.0";
  myRoute.prefixLength = 24 ;
 
  var myVcHostIpRouteOp = new VcHostIpRouteOp() ;
  myVcHostIpRouteOp.changeOperation = "add" ;
  myVcHostIpRouteOp.route = myRoute ;
 
  // Add Ip route entry to the array of routes
  routeTableConfig.ipRoute.push(myVcHostIpRouteOp);
 
  // Apply change to host
  networkSystem.updateIpRouteTableConfig(routeTableConfig);
 

}
}

[iiliev · Accepted solution]

Something like the following should work. The main difference compared to your code is how the new route entry is added - instead of pushing it to the existing array with routes (such modification of existing arrays may not work as expected), a new array is prepared combining the new route + existing route entries.

var configmanager = host.configManager;
var networkSystem = configmanager.networkSystem;
var netStackArray = networkSystem.networkConfig.netStackSpec;

for each (var netStack in netStackArray) {

System.log(netStack.netStackInstance.name);
if (netStack.netStackInstance.name == "defaultTcpipStack") {
  var routeTableConfig = netStack.netStackInstance.routeTableConfig;

  //Build IP route entry
  myRoute = new VcHostIpRouteEntry() ;
  myRoute.deviceName = "vmk0" ;
  myRoute.gateway = "192.168.1.1";
  myRoute.network = "192.168.1.0";
  myRoute.prefixLength = 22 ;

  var myVcHostIpRouteOp = new VcHostIpRouteOp() ;
  myVcHostIpRouteOp.changeOperation = "add" ;
  myVcHostIpRouteOp.route = myRoute ;

  // Add Ip route entry to the array of routes
  var config = new VcHostIpRouteTableConfig([myVcHostIpRouteOp].concat(routeTableConfig.ipRoute), routeTableConfig.ipv6Route);

  // Apply change to host
  networkSystem.updateIpRouteTableConfig(config);

}
}

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Thank you Ilian Iliev. That worked like a charm.