Using PowerCLI to change performance metrics

[bbarbee9]

Hi,

We have recently purchased a VxRail system for testing purposes.

I am trying to control IOPS and Network speed VIA PowerCLI.

We are on vsphere 6.7 but will be upgrading to 7.0 this week.

So far I have found the following commands googling  but I get errors when I try to use them.

First is the IOPS control

Get-VM 'vm_name' | Get-VMResourceConfiguration | Set-VMResourceconfiguration -configuration DiskResourceConfiguration -DiskLimitIOPerSecond <Value>

Set <Value> to what you want the IOPS to be.

when I try this I get the following

Set-VMResourceConfiguration : Cannot bind parameter 'Configuration'. Cannot convert the "DiskResourceConfiguration" value of type "System.String" to

type "VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.VM.VMResourceConfiguration".

At line:1 char:94

+ ... esourceconfiguration -configuration DiskResourceConfiguration -DiskLi ...

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

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Set-VMResourceConfiguration], ParameterBindingException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.SetVMResourceConfiguration

The second is network speed.  We are trying to control latency in the network without using 3rd party tools.

Here is the command for this.

Set-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName IOPSnNic -MaximumBandwidth 5000000

and here is the error

Set-VMNetworkAdapter : The term 'Set-VMNetworkAdapter' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check

the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

At D:\Users\Brian.Barbee\Documents\Dell\Powershell\Untitled5.ps1:1 char:1

+ Set-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName IOPSnNic -MaximumBandwidth 5000000

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

    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Set-VMNetworkAdapter:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

If these are not the correct commands can you please send me the proper command and syntax?

Thanks in advance

Brian

[Scott Vessey]

Moderator: Thread moved to the PowerCLI area.

[LucD]

You are passing the Configuration value over the pipeline, so no need to explicitly specify it.

Get-VM 'vm_name' |

Get-VMResourceConfiguration |

Set-VMResourceconfiguration -DiskLimitIOPerSecond <Value>

The 2nd snippet uses Set-VMNetworkAdapater, which is not a PowerCLI cmdlet but a cmdlet from the Hyper-V module.

I suggest you check the VxRail docs to find how this should be done with PowerCLI

[bbarbee9]

Thank you for the clarification.