Comments on: Customisation: Lesson 4 – PortGroups

By: Alan Renouf

Alan Renouf — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:33:50 +0000

@Daniel
Nice one, I like it, im so glad people are getting something from these, sometimes it feels like you just blog to yourself

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:04:27 +0000

Wrote a little PS based on this article and thought I would share. In a hosting environment like our I am always adding VLAN’s/Portgroups which you can imagine becomes tedious even on only 6 hosts. Enjoy

$VCUser = Read-Host “User ID: ”
$VCPassword = Read-Host “Password: ”
$portgroupname = Read-Host “Enter the name of the PortGroup:”
$vlanid = Read-Host “Enter the VLAN ID”

Connect-VIServer -Server vcolo.iconz.co.nz -User $VCUser -Password $VCPassword
$ESXHost = Get-VMHost | Sort-Object -Property Name

ForEach($objHost in $ESXHost){
$VSwitch = Get-Virtualswitch -VMHost (Get-VMHost $objHost) | where-object { $_.Name -match “Vswitch1″ }
Write-Host “Adding Virtual Port Group” $portgroupname “with VLAN Tag” $vlanid “to” $objHost
New-VirtualPortGroup -Name $portgroupname -VirtualSwitch $VSwitch -VLanId $vlanid -WhatIf
}

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:54:51 +0000

Ha ha, thanks very much – there is always one isnt there

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:21:10 +0000

Just a quick note, a VLAN id’s of “16810″ and “16812″ are not really valid:)

Otherwise fantastic article!

By: Barry Coombs

Barry Coombs — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:53:27 +0000

Fantastic Alan, really clearly written can’t wait to have a play with this.

Cheers

Barry