PortGroup is not accessible from this host

[plaman]

I have a fully automated script that has been working for the past few months, with no issues, but now when I am trying to deploy a new VM i receive an error message "PortGroup is not accessible from this host "even though the portgroup is available on the host  

I am using powercli 12.2.0 build 17538434

any suggestions would be appreciated 

[fabio1975]

Ciao 

Haven't you run out of ports allocated for the PortGroup? Is The PortGroup  Elastic or Fixed?

[LucD]

Without seeing your actual code, it is impossible to determine what goes wrong.
Does a 

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Get-VirtualPortgroup -Name <your-pg> -VMHost <your-ESXi-node>  -Standard

return anything? 

[plaman]

 

your thoughts please 

[LucD]

That is not the same error you started this thread with?

Btw, a screenshot is not very helpful when sharing code, I'm really not going to type in that code from a screenshot.

[plaman]

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 $linuxSpec = New-OSCustomizationSpec -OSType Linux -Name $VMName -DnsServer $DNS1,$DNS2 -DnsSuffix $Domain -Domain $Domain -Type Persistent -NamingScheme fixed -NamingPrefix $ServerName -Server $vcentre

                               

                # $linuxSpec = New-OSCustomizationSpec -OSType Linux -Name $VMName -Domain $Domain -DnsSuffix $Domain -Type Persistent -DnsServer $DNS1,$DNS2 -NamingScheme fixed -NamingPrefix $NetBios

               

                 write-host "CREATING NEW CUSTOMISATIONS NIC MAPPING SPECIFICATION FOR YOUR VM" -ForegroundColor Yellow          

                

                Get-OSCustomizationNicMapping $linuxSpec|Set-OSCustomizationNicMapping -IpMode UseStaticIP -IpAddress $IP -SubnetMask $SubNetMask -DefaultGateway $Gateway  -Server $vcentre

                 write-host "Passed point1 Get-OSCustomizationNicMapping"

               New-VM -Name $VMname -Template $OS -Location $Application  -VMHost  $HostName -Portgroup  (Get-VirtualPortGroup -Name $PortGroup -VMHost $HostName).Name -Datastore $Datastore -Server $vcentre -OSCustomizationSpec $linuxSpec -ErrorAction Stop

                 write-host "Passed point2 New-VM"

                Start-VM  $VMname |Wait-Tools -TimeoutSeconds 180

                write-host "Passed point3 Start-VM "

              #Check if the deploymnet is completed

  $CustomisationStatus= Check-Customisation -VMname $VMName

   write-host "the CustomisationStatus is $CustomisationStatus"

  if ($CustomisationStatus -notlike ("SUCCESSFUL")) {

  write-host "Send email the server $VMName  Customisation has failed"}

#check the vm

  $PingWaitCounter=[int]"0"

do {$VMReady=Check-VM-Ready-Status -vmname $vmname -IP $IP

         Start-Sleep -Seconds 2

         $PingWaitCounter = $PingWaitCounter +2

         Write-Host "WAITING FOR SERVER TO RESPOND, NOW WAITING $PingWaitCounter" -ForegroundColor Red

        } Until ((($VMReady[0] -eq "OK") -and ($VMReady[1]-eq"Success") -and ($VMReady[2] -eq "Started")) -or ($PingWaitCounter -eq "100"))

      if ($PingWaitCounter -eq "100") {

     Write-Host "Need to send email, the server $VMName is not responding to ping, please check the Status " -ForegroundColor Red }

  #server will restart automatically one more time for the Customisation to take effect

write-host "passed this point" -ForegroundColor Yellow

    do{

     $VMReady=Check-VM-Ready-Status -vmname $vmname -IP $IP

     Start-Sleep -Seconds 2

     $WaitCounter=$WaitCounter+2

     }Until   ((($VMReady[0] -eq "OK") -and ($VMReady[1] -eq "Success")) -or ($WaitCounter -eq "100"))  

      

      if (($VMReady[0]  -eq "OK") -and ($VMReady[1] -eq "Success") )

      {write-host "The $vmname server is ready to accept commands" -ForegroundColor Green}

 

[LucD]

Which error are you getting?
You have mentioned two different errors.

[plaman]

with the above code, i am getting the "could not find virtualportgroupbase with name"

if I change the -portgroup to "-Portgroup  (get-vdportgroup -Name $PortGroup).Name " I get the error in titled in the thread 

[LucD]

Try changing the Portgroup parameter to

-Portgroup  (Get-VDPortgroup -Name $PortGroup)

passing the actual object and not the string with the name.

Also, make sure that the ESXi node in $Hostname is added to the VDS that contains the portgroup.

[plaman]

using the above command will result “PortGroup is not accessible from this host".

before I select the $hostname I check if the host has access to that port group.

we just added another cluster to the same vcentre using the same port group names. hence when I run the   

-Portgroup  (Get-VDPortgroup -Name $PortGroup)

The result will return the 2 protogroups with the same name

[LucD]

Then you will have to explicitly select the correct VDS.

-Portgroup  (Get-VDSwitch -Name <VDS-name> -VMHost <esx-name> | Get-VDPortgroup -Name $PortGroup)

Btw, the info that you have 2 portgroups with the same name would have helped at the beginning of this thread