Powercli HCX automation

[StuDuncanHPE]

I'm brand new to HCX, so have very limited experience with it.

But running into an issue on how to assign source & desination groups when there's more than one NIC, and more than one subnet.

Roughly, this is what I have:

$SrcPortgroup = ($vm | Get-virtualportgroup).Name

$DstPortgroup = (Get-VDPortgroup -VDSwitch (get-vdswitch | where {$_.Name -like "*$DstPortCluster*"}) | where {$_.Name -like "*$subnet*"}).Name #select the right vds for the right cluster with the right subnet

$SrcNetwork = Get-HCXNetwork -Name $SrcPortgroup -type DistributedVirtualPortgroup -Site $HcxSrcSite

$DstNetwork = Get-HCXNetwork -Name $DstPortgroup -type DistributedVirtualPortgroup -Site $HcxDstSite

$NetworkMapping = New-HCXNetworkMapping -SourceNetwork $SrcNetwork -DestinationNetwork $DstNetwork

$NewMigration = New-HCXMigration -VM $HcxVM -MigrationType RAV -SourceSite $HcxSrcSite -DestinationSite $HcxDstSite `

-TargetComputeContainer $DstCompute -TargetDatastore $DstDatastore -NetworkMapping $NetworkMapping

 

Do I just do a loop of (foreach $NIC) and make $NetworkMapping an array? or do I loop the portgroups & the $SrcPortgroup/$DstPortgroup be arrays? Or do I have to make $NewMigration an array, which seems weird to me, conceptually for just multiple NICs.

 

[StuDuncanHPE]

Turns out you have to loop on $NetworkMapping. And if you don't get all the NICs, it will fail.

 

https://hcx.design/2022/11/18/hcx-powercli-series-understanding-network-mappings-for-workload-migration/

 

My version of it:

$networkAdapterList = @()

$NetworkMapping = @()

$networkAdapterList = $vm | get-networkadapter #vcenter vm, not HCX vm

for($j = 0; $j -le ($networkAdapterList.Count -1); $j++){

$SrcNetwork = $HCXvm.Network[$j] #HCXvm, not vcenter vm

$DstNetwork = Get-HCXNetwork -Name $DstPortgroup -Site $HcxDstSite

$NetworkMapping += New-HCXNetworkMapping -SourceNetwork $SrcNetwork -DestinationNetwork $DstNetwork

}