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Issue with New-OrgNetwork in vCloud 5.1

Hi,

I'm trying to create an OrgVDC Network for my newly created OrgVDCs via PowerCLI. Unfortunately I'm getting an erorr stating:

New-OrgNetwork : 3/21/2013 2:03:45 PM    New-OrgNetwork        The requested operation is not supported on vCloud Director versions greater than
1.5.

I am referencing: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/PowerCLI51/html/New-OrgNetwork.html

Command I am using is:

New-OrgNetwork -Direct -Name 'MyOrgDirectNetwork' -Org 'MyOrganization' -ExternalNetwork 'MyExternalNetwork' -Description "None"

Please tell me this is not a another bug and I'm doing something wrong. I really do not want to go creating 20 OrgVDC networks manually.

Thanks!

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Pavel_Dimitrov
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Here's a quick example of crearting an Isolated OrgVdc network:

$orgVdcNet = New-Object 'VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.OrgVdcNetwork'
$orgVdcNet.Name = 'TmpOrgVdcNet'
$orgVdcNet.Configuration = New-Object 'VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.NetworkConfiguration'
$orgVdcNet.Configuration.IpScopes = New-Object 'VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.IpScopes'

$ipscope = New-Object "VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.IpScope"
$ipscope.Gateway = '192.168.0.1'
$ipscope.Netmask = '255.255.255.0'

$orgVdcNet.Configuration.IpScopes.IpScope += $ipscope

$orgVdcNet.Configuration.FenceMode = 'isolated'


$orgVdcView = Get-OrgVdc Org1Vdc1 | Get-CIView


$result = $orgVdcView.CreateNetwork($orgVdcNet)

Get-OrgNetwork $result.Name

Name          Gateway         Org             ExternalNetwork       NetworkType
----          -------         ---             ---------------       -----------
TmpOrgVdcNet  192.168.0.1     Organization1                         Isolated

I know that it's a hassle building the configuration of the OrgVdcNetwork by hand, but still you can prepare a function that'll work for your needs.

Hope that this example will give you an idea what to do.

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jake_robinson_b
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If you reference the newest R2 docs (http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/PowerCLI51R2/html/index.html) it says:

"You can run this cmdlet only against vCloud Director 1.5.x environments."

Cheers,

Jake Robinson

Solutions Architect

Bluelock, LLC

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Thread moved to vCloud Director PowerCLI


Blog: lucd.info  Twitter: @LucD22  Co-author PowerCLI Reference

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So there is no way to automate the creation of new OrgVDC Networks? Why automate the creation of Orgs, OrgVDCs then have to go manually create OrgVDC Networks?

Thanks!

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Pavel_Dimitrov
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It's still possible to create OrgVdc Network, using the PowerCLI cloud views.

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Thanks Pavel, could you provide me with an example or point me in the right direction, to an online reference or something....

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Pavel_Dimitrov
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Here's a quick example of crearting an Isolated OrgVdc network:

$orgVdcNet = New-Object 'VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.OrgVdcNetwork'
$orgVdcNet.Name = 'TmpOrgVdcNet'
$orgVdcNet.Configuration = New-Object 'VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.NetworkConfiguration'
$orgVdcNet.Configuration.IpScopes = New-Object 'VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.IpScopes'

$ipscope = New-Object "VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.IpScope"
$ipscope.Gateway = '192.168.0.1'
$ipscope.Netmask = '255.255.255.0'

$orgVdcNet.Configuration.IpScopes.IpScope += $ipscope

$orgVdcNet.Configuration.FenceMode = 'isolated'


$orgVdcView = Get-OrgVdc Org1Vdc1 | Get-CIView


$result = $orgVdcView.CreateNetwork($orgVdcNet)

Get-OrgNetwork $result.Name

Name          Gateway         Org             ExternalNetwork       NetworkType
----          -------         ---             ---------------       -----------
TmpOrgVdcNet  192.168.0.1     Organization1                         Isolated

I know that it's a hassle building the configuration of the OrgVdcNetwork by hand, but still you can prepare a function that'll work for your needs.

Hope that this example will give you an idea what to do.

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Awesome thanks Pavel Dimitrov Smiley Happy I'll test it out this weekend!

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Thanks Pavel your script worked for an Isolated OrgVdc network.

I am trying to create an OrgVDC bridged network but can't seem to get it working, I always get errors on creation. Do you have a sample for scripting a bridged network with cloud views?

Thanks!

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jamesbowling
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Did you ever figure this out?  I am trying to create a natRouted network as well and having an issue.

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Nope never got a response. Ended up manually creating them.

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jamesbowling
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Just for kicks, here is a working script for creating a natRouted OrgNetwork:

$orgName = "1001"

$orgNetName = "1001-Test"

$org = Get-OrgVdc $orgName | Get-CIView

$edgeGateway = Search-Cloud -QueryType EdgeGateway | Get-CIView | where {$_.name -like "$orgName*"}

$mynetwork = new-object vmware.vimautomation.cloud.views.orgvdcnetwork

$mynetwork.name = $orgNetName

$mynetwork.edgegateway = $edgeGateway.id

$mynetwork.configuration = new-object vmware.vimautomation.cloud.views.networkconfiguration

$mynetwork.configuration.fencemode = "natRouted"

$mynetwork.configuration.ipscopes = new-object vmware.vimautomation.cloud.views.ipscopes

$scope = new-object vmware.vimautomation.cloud.views.ipscope

$scope.gateway = "192.168.2.1"

$scope.netmask = "255.255.255.0"

$scope.dns1 = "192.168.2.1"

$scope.ipranges = new-object vmware.vimautomation.cloud.views.ipranges

$scope.ipranges.iprange = new-object vmware.vimautomation.cloud.views.iprange

$scope.ipranges.iprange[0].startaddress = "192.168.2.100"

$scope.ipranges.iprange[0].endaddress = "192.168.2.200"

$mynetwork.configuration.ipscopes.ipscope += $scope

$result = $org.CreateNetwork($mynetwork)

Some portions of this are dependent on naming conventions for EdgeGateways but it will at least give you what you would need to modify it.

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