I was asked if it was possible to set the VMKernel Nic MTU in PowerCLI, after looking on the internet there were several people showing how to do this but some of them were very complicated, maybe this has got easier over time as with each release of PowerCLI one of the things the PowerCLI Dev team looks at is how to make things easier for the end user?
Anyway, I thought I would show my one line solutions for listing and setting the MTU for the VMKernel Nics for multiple hosts,
Listing the MTU for each VMKernel Nic
Setting the MTU to 9000 for each VMKernel Nic
The Code
Listing the MTU for each VMKernel Nic
Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter | Where { $_.GetType().Name -eq "HostVMKernelVirtualNicImpl" } | Select VMHost, Name, MTU
Or an even easier way of doing this (but you cant expand it to change the MTU easily is:
Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostNetwork | Select -ExpandProperty VirtualNic | Select VMHost, Name, MTU
Setting the MTU to 9000 for each VMKernel Nic
Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter | Where { $_.GetType().Name -eq "HostVMKernelVirtualNicImpl" } | Foreach { $_ | Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -Mtu 9000 -Confirm:$false }
I am often asked how people can get started with PowerCLI, one of the main places to start is obviously with the underlying PowerShell and how better to learn than from the man who invented it!
