Managing Distributed Switch from CLI??

[md41_Montreal]

I have a DvSwitch.

I want to add NEW port groups,

But i do not want to use vCenter.

I have many to add , roughly 800

of the 800, 600 would be port groups with simple vlan no tagging...

the rest 200 would be .1q with 21 vlans per port group... :smileyhappy:

I want to script it...... then drop it into a ssh/shell window

can it be done?

:smileyhappy:

[aruncr07]

Hi,

You can use the powercli command New-VDPortgroup to create port groups on distributed virtual switches. You need to have powercli installed for this.

Try the following command " Get-VDSwitch -Name "MyVDSwitch" | New-VDPortgroup -Name "MyVDPortGroup" -NumPorts 8 -VLanId 4".

You can check the following link for more details. https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.powercli.cmdletref.doc%2FNew-VDPortgroup.html

Thanks,

Arun

[md41_Montreal]

thanks I was able to use the cli and to create my 2045 port groups , while it take some time , it was so much easier... i am now moving over to managing with the cli instead of vcenter ....