How to get RPO?

[Juan Palmero]

Hello everyone.

I've been working with PowerCLI for some time to automate may VMware tasks. However, I've never used it to retrieve information from Virtual Replication or SRM servers. 

I now need to retrieve the RPO from approximately 30 VMs that are being replicated to a remote DR site and have some questions. I've created a basic script to retrieve information following the excellent article "Managing SRM and VR with PowerCLI 13.1" by Pavel Dimitrow: Managing-SRM

# Connect to local and remote Vr servers
$vrConnection = Connect-VrServer -Server $localVr -Credential $creds -RemoteServer $remoteVc -RemoteCredential $creds

$remotePairing = $vrConnection.ConnectedPairings[$remoteVc].Pairing
$remotePairing

$replicatedVms = Invoke-VrGetLocalVms -PairingId $remotePairing.PairingId -VcenterId $remotePairing.LocalVcServer.Id -FilterProperty 'Name' -Filter "*"

Disconnect-VrServer -Server $vrConnection

I can successfully connect to the Vr servers:

Meta           : 
PairingId      : manually removed for privacy
LocalVcServer  : VMware.Bindings.Vr.Model.ServerInfo
RemoteVcServer : VMware.Bindings.Vr.Model.ServerInfo
LocalVrms      : VMware.Bindings.Vr.Model.ServerInfo
RemoteVrms     : VMware.Bindings.Vr.Model.ServerInfo

Unfortunately I'm getting a permissions error on the Invoke-VrGetLocalVms command. 

Invoke-VrGetLocalVms : 403: Forbidden error calling GetLocalVms: {"error_code":"3.1","message":"Permission to perform 
this operation was denied.\nYou do not hold privilege \"Profile-driven storage > Profile-driven storage view\" on 
folder \"Datacenters\"","op_id":"811a9ccf-73c9-4968-9ecf-0210250c05f3"}
At C:\PS\RTO-Report.ps1:39 char:17
+ ... licatedVm = Invoke-VrGetLocalVms -PairingId $remotePairing.PairingId  ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Invoke-VrGetLocalVms], PermissionDeniedApiException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : VMware.Binding.OpenApi.Client.Exceptions.PermissionDeniedApiException,VMware.Sdk.Vr.Api.R 
   eplicationApi.InvokeVrGetLocalVms 

Note that this is the first time that this installation is trying to implement automation using PowerShell, and I'm wondering if there are any server side settings that need to be changed.

Thank you.

[LucD]

Did you check that the account you are using has the required privileges?
As documented in Assign VRM Replication Viewer Role (vmware.com)

[Juan Palmero]

Thank you LucD for your tip. I am not an administrator but I asked one of the Domain Admins to run my script with his credentials and he got the same error. I will forward your answer so they can check. Unfortunately, as I mentioned, I'm in an installation where there is very little knowledge of automation, using PowerShell or any other tools. 

Also, as I mentioned in my post, I've done some PowerShell/PowerCLI but not using VR/SRM and wondering if my approach is correct. There are very few script examples out there.

Again, thank you for your help.

JP

[LucD]

I wanted to look at the underlying REST API method, but unfortunately, the site currently shows

API Details Page is temporarily unavailable.