How to get IP from a VMkernel port please

[Ross_Walter]

hi!

I am writing a script to get the IP address and subnet mask for a VMkernel port (NFS ports for storage connectivity) for our host servers, to save their config prior to upgrading to v4.1. the script is almost done but I'm having difficulties with some parts of my script. For example:

   #get the NFS VMkernel port IP address details for each host
   $NFSportgroups = Get-VirtualPortGroup -vmhost $hostsvr | Where {$_.name -match "nfs-"}   # our NFS port names are preceeded with "nfs-"

   foreach ($pg in $NFSportgroups)
   { 
      $NFSip = ??

      $NFSsubnet = ??
   }

Similarly, I'm having difficulties getting a host server IP, subnet, gateway and VMotion IP for ESXi4 hosts - my script works fine for ESX3.5 hosts, so please provide assistance with the code I need for this too!

thanking you in advance!

Ross

[Yasen Kalchev]

Hi,

In order to get VMKernel IP information you need to examine VMKernel virtual netwrok adapter using Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter cmdlet:

Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMKernel -vmhost $hostsvr | Where {$_.PortGroupName -match "nfs-"}

Regards,

Yasen Kalchev

PowerCLI Dev team

[LucD]

The answer to the 2nd question is similar

Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost $hostsvr | where {$_.PortgroupName -like "Management*"}

Btw I think Yasen's line should say

Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter  -VMKernel -vmhost $hostsvr | Where {$_.PortgroupName -match "nfs-"}

Update: I see Yasen corrected the line

Message was edited by: LucD

[Arnim Lieshout]

There's a small error in Yasen's example. The code should read:

Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMKernel -VMHost $vmhost | Where {$_.PortGroupName -match "nfs-"}

why not create an overview for all VMkernel ports, so you have ESXi management ports too, in one run. Simply remove the Where statement.

Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMKernel -VMHost $vmhost | Select Name,PortGroupName,IP,SubnetMask