Extract All vSS & VDS details for all vCenters

[SCharchouf]

In order to remedy a large network configuration issue, I need to collect vSS & VDS details across all vCenters.

I'm not sure if we can collect both Standard switch and distributed switch in one shot and the output should contain the below information:

• HostName
• Type : Standard or Distributed
• vSwitch MTU
• version
• Name
• Uplink /ConnectedAdapter
• PortGroup
• VLAN ID
• Active adapters
• Standby Adapters
• Unused Adapters
• Security Promiscuous/MacChanges/ForgedTransmits

 

 

 

 

[LucD]

You can collect all that in 1 report, but the code might become quite complex.

What do you mean by 'Version' in case of a VSS?
What do you mean by 'Unused Adapters'?

Do you intend to list all pNIC that are not used in the Switch or Portgroup?

On VDS the concept of active/standby pNIC does not really exist.
The teaming is done through the Uplinks.

And, more importantly, what do you already have?
I'm pretty sure a lot of the information you are after is already present in this community.

[SCharchouf]

yep I confirm that the code might be complex 

What do you mean by 'Version' in case of a VSS? my bad as the version is related to vDS, 
What do you mean by 'Unused Adapters'? unfortunately the current configuration has some unused Uplink

 

Do you intend to list all pNIC that are not used in the Switch or Portgroup? it should be the case

 

I have the 2 below scripts, but not able to mix them in order to collect what I need

 

Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -vmkernel |
% { $vnet=$_ ; get-vdportgroup -vmhostnetworkadapter $vnet |
%{"$($vnet.vmhost.parent)`t$($vnet.vmhost)`t
$($vnet.name)`t$($vnet.ip)`t$($vnet.subnetmask)`t
$($_.name)`t$($_.vdswitch)`t$($_.vlanconfiguration)" |
out-file .\temp\output.txt -append } }

Get-VirtualPortgroup -standard |
% { $pg=$_ ; get-vmhostnetworkadapter -portgroup $pg |
% { "$($_.vmhost.parent)`t$($_.vmhost)`t$($_.name)`t
$($_.ip)`t$($_.subnetmask)`t$($pg.name)`t
$($pg.virtualswitch.name)`t$($pg.vlanid)" |
 out-file .\temp\output.txt -append }}

Any comments or recommendation are always welcome

 

[LucD]

Try something like this

Get-VMHost -PipelineVariable esx |
ForEach-Object -Process {
    Get-VirtualSwitch -VMHost $esx -PipelineVariable sw |
    ForEach-Object -Process {
        Get-VirtualPortGroup -VirtualSwitch $sw -PipelineVariable pg |
        ForEach-Object -Process {
            New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property ([ordered]@{
                VMHost = $esx.name
                Switch = $sw.Name
                Type = $sw.GetType().Name -replace 'Impl',''
                Mtu = $sw.mtu
                Portgroup = $pg.Name
                VlanId = &{
                    if($_ -is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Host.Networking.DistributedPortGroupImpl]){
                        if($_.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.Vlan -is [VMware.Vim.VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitchPvlanSpec]){
                            $_.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.Vlan.PvlanId
                        }
                        elseif($_.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.Vlan -is [VMware.Vim.VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitchVlanSpec]){
                            if($_.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.Vlan.VlanId -is [VMware.Vim.NumericRange[]]){
                                [string]::Join(',',($_.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.Vlan.VlanId | %{"$($_.Start)-$($_.End)"}))
                            }
                            else{
                                $_.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.Vlan.VlanId
                            }
                        }
                    }
                    else{$_.VlanId}}
                Uplink = &{
                    if($_ -is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Host.Networking.DistributedPortGroupImpl]){
                        $vds.ExtensionData.Config.UplinkPortPolicy.UplinkPortName -join ','
                    }
                    else{
                       'na'
                    }                    
                }
                ConnectedAdapter = &{
                    if($pg -is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Host.Networking.DistributedPortGroupImpl]){
                        $vds = $esx.ExtensionData.Config.Network.ProxySwitch | where{$_.DvsUuid -eq $sw.ExtensionData.Uuid}
                        ($vds.UplinkPort | ForEach-Object -Process {
                            $uplink = $_
                            $pnic = $vds.Spec.Backing.PnicSpec | where{$uplink.Key -eq $_.UplinkPortKey}
                            if($pnic){
                                "$($uplink.Value):$($pnic.PnicDevice)"
                            }
                            else{"$($uplink.Value):-"}
                        }) -join ','
                    }
                    else{
                       $sw.Nic -join ','
                    }
                }
                ActiveNic = &{
                    if($_ -is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Host.Networking.DistributedPortGroupImpl]){
                        'na'
                    }
                    else{
                        if($pg.ExtensionData.Spec.Policy.NicTeaming.NicOrder -ne $null){
                           $pg.ExtensionData.Spec.Policy.NicTeaming.NicOrder.ActiveNic -join ','
                        }
                        else{
                            $sw.ExtensionData.Spec.Policy.NicTeaming.NicOrder.ActiveNic -join ','
                        }
                    }                    
                }
                StandByNic = &{
                    if($pg -is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Host.Networking.DistributedPortGroupImpl]){
                        'na'
                    }
                    else{
                        if($pg.ExtensionData.Spec.Policy.NicTeaming.NicOrder -ne $null){
                           $pg.ExtensionData.Spec.Policy.NicTeaming.NicOrder.StandByNic -join ','
                        }
                        else{
                            $sw.ExtensionData.Spec.Policy.NicTeaming.NicOrder.StandByNic -join ','
                        }
                    }                    
                }
                SwPromicious = &{
                    if($pg -is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Host.Networking.DistributedPortGroupImpl]){
                        $sw.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.SecurityPolicy.AllowPromiscuous.Value
                    }
                    else{
                        $sw.ExtensionData.Spec.Policy.Security.AllowPromiscuous
                    }
                }
                SwMacChanges = &{
                    if($pg -is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Host.Networking.DistributedPortGroupImpl]){
                        $sw.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.SecurityPolicy.MacChanges.Value
                    }
                    else{
                        $sw.ExtensionData.Spec.Policy.Security.MacChanges
                    }
                }
                SwForgedTransmits = &{
                    if($pg -is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Host.Networking.DistributedPortGroupImpl]){
                        $sw.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.SecurityPolicy.ForgedTransmits.Value
                    }
                    else{
                        $sw.ExtensionData.Spec.Policy.Security.ForgedTransmits
                    }
                }
                PgPromicious = &{
                    if($pg -is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Host.Networking.DistributedPortGroupImpl]){
                        $pg.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.SecurityPolicy.AllowPromiscuous.Value
                    }
                    else{
                        $pg.ExtensionData.Spec.Policy.Security.AllowPromiscuous
                    }
                }
                PgMacChanges = &{
                    if($pg -is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Host.Networking.DistributedPortGroupImpl]){
                        $pg.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.SecurityPolicy.MacChanges.Value
                    }
                    else{
                        $pg.ExtensionData.Spec.Policy.Security.MacChanges
                    }
                }
                PgForgedTransmits = &{
                    if($pg -is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Host.Networking.DistributedPortGroupImpl]){
                        $pg.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.SecurityPolicy.ForgedTransmits.Value
                    }
                    else{
                        $pg.ExtensionData.Spec.Policy.Security.ForgedTransmits
                    }
                }
            })
        }
    }
}

 

[SCharchouf]

I added
$results = @() at the begin of the script
$results | export-csv -Path .\Output.csv -NoTypeInformation at the end
the file is created but is empty,
i think i'm wrong

[LucD]

The script doesn't use a $results variable.
All objects are in the pipeline, you can just pipe the object to your Export-Csv cmdlet.

[Sabri CHARCHOUF]

 

I find this script and it provide good details, unfortunately I'm not able to generate a CSV/Excel is that possible?

for this script can we add information like physical switch Name and switch Ports?

 

[LucD]

See my previous answer, you should be able to add (pipe) at the end to an EXport-Csv cmdlet.

Physical info is only present when CDP, or similar, is actived.

[Sabri CHARCHOUF]

Thank you very much I'm able to export the report

the CDP is activated on the switch so it's possible to add the information?

[LucD]

Extracting the CDP info is not a problem, but I'm not sure how to present that in the output.

The following, CDS only, would perhaps be a better solution.
See Re: Collect vDS Portgroup, VMNIC and CDP informati... - VMware Technology Network VMTN

[Sabri CHARCHOUF]

Thanks 

 

to the previous script can we add at least IP adress?

[Sabri CHARCHOUF]

Hello 

II'm using the above script to collect details for network, unfortunately the active standby output show always "na" despite the Configuration is active/standby, I do have any idea what could be the issue? 

 

[LucD]

It is rather simple, I didn't implement that in the code at the time.

[Sabri CHARCHOUF]

 

Thank you I will try to add that include it 

[Sabri CHARCHOUF]

 

I didn't find the way to show the information for ActiveNic/StandByNic

would you please assist on this?

[momox1]

Hello LucD,

I'm somehow still getting the vlan ID colon empty. Any hint?

 

Thank you

[LucD]

Are you using VSS or VDS, or a mix?
ANd for VDS, which type of VLANs?

[momox1]

I'm using VDS and VLAN type.

No Private or trunking vlans.

With this part of code, I get what I want, but cannot integrate it to the code for the moment.

$vlanId = $portGroup.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.Vlan.VlanId

Thank you

[LucD]

That is exactly what the snippet is doing for a VDS portgroup with a regular VLAN.
Not sure why you wouldn't see the VLANid