power cli to create distributed port group

[ajkbond]

can some one help me with a powercli command to create a distributed port group but i also need to select uplink 3 & 4 as active teaming and failover and uplink 1 & 2 as unused uplink

or power cli comand to create a distributed port group by copying settings from another vlan but name and vlan ID i will provide. i need to create lot of vlan so any help to script it also is appreciated.

esxi and vcenter 6.5 ui

Below command will help if i can specify vlan id as well in comand. currently vlan ID its taking from ReferencePortgroup.

$myReferncePortroup = Get-VDPortgroup -Name "MyReferencePortGroup"

Get-VDSwitch -Name "MyVDSwitch" | New-VDPortgroup -Name "MyVDPortGroup" -ReferencePortgroup $myReferncePortroup

[LucD]

You will have to use a Set-VDPortgroup to change the VlanId

$myReferncePortroup = Get-VDPortgroup -Name "MyReferencePortGroup"

$pg = Get-VDSwitch -Name "MyVDSwitch" |

New-VDPortgroup -Name "MyVDPortGroup" -ReferencePortgroup $myReferncePortroup

Set-VDPortgroup -VDPortgroup $pg -VlanId $vlanId -Confirm:$false

[ajkbond]

Thanks Luc D

if i need to create for 100 vlan, how the script will looks like and how do i give the input file with vlan name and vlan ID.

[LucD]

Do you have that information available in a CSV file?

Do you use the same ReferencePortGroup for all the new VDPortgroups?
Are all VDPortgroups on the same VDSwitch?

Ideally, that should be in a CSV file.
Something similar to this

VDPortgroup,VLANId,VDSwitch,VDReferencePortgroup

pg1,100,vds1,pgRef1

pg2,101,vds1,pgRef1

pg3,102,vds2,pgRef2

[ajkbond]

yes same reference group can be used and yes all VDPortgroups on the same VDSwitch

[ajkbond]

can i create a csv file like below

cluster,vSwitch,VLANname,VLANid

Maintenance,Test01,test01,100

save above as MyVLANs.csv

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Script like below

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$InputFile = .\MyVLANs.csv

$MyVLANFile = Import-CSV $InputFile

$myReferncePortroup = Get-VDPortgroup -Name "test01"

ForEach ($VLAN in $MyVLANFile) {

$MyCluster = $VLAN.cluster

$MyvSwitch = $VLAN.vSwitch

$MyVLANname = $VLAN.VLANname

$MyVLANid = $VLAN.VLANid

get-cluster $MyCluster  | Get-VDSwitch -Name $MyvSwitch |

New-VDPortgroup -Name $MyVLANname -ReferencePortgroup $myReferncePortroup

Set-VDPortgroup -VDPortgroup $pg -VlanId $MyVLANid -Confirm:$false

}

dose this work? if not can you give me a good one.

[LucD]

Or even simpler, no intermediate variables, and all in one pipeline construct.

$InputFile = .\MyVLANs.csv

$MyVLANFile = Import-CSV $InputFile

$myReferencePortroup = Get-VDPortgroup -Name "test01"

ForEach ($VLAN in $MyVLANFile) {

    Get-Cluster -Name $VLAN.cluster  | Get-VDSwitch -Name $VLAN.vSwitch |

    New-VDPortgroup -Name $VLAN.VLANname -ReferencePortgroup $myReferencePortroup |

    Set-VDPortgroup -VlanId $VLAN.VLANid -Confirm:$false

}

[ajkbond]

Thanks LucD your help is much appreciated.

i just removed  get- cluster because it gave me below error.

Get-VDSwitch : The input object cannot be bound to any parameters for the command either because the command does no

take pipeline input or the input and its properties do not match any of the parameters that take pipeline input.

At line:1 char:33

+ Get-Cluster -Name Maintenance | Get-VDSwitch TestSwitch

+                                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (Maintenance:PSObject) [Get-VDSwitch], ParameterBindingException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InputObjectNotBound,VMware.VimAutomation.Vds.Commands.GetVDSwitch

without that it worked fine since we have only one switch with same name in my env it was fine for me.

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$MyVLANFile = Import-CSV .\MyVLANs.csv

$myReferencePortroup = Get-VDPortgroup -Name "test01"

ForEach ($VLAN in $MyVLANFile) {

    Get-VDSwitch -Name $VLAN.vSwitch |

    New-VDPortgroup -Name $VLAN.VLANname -ReferencePortgroup $myReferencePortroup |

    Set-VDPortgroup -VlanId $VLAN.VLANid -Confirm:$false

}

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Thanks again for your help.