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Manage vSAN using Powercli

Powercli is a command line tool which based on Windows PowerShell. We can use it for automate our tasks. This article will show some of the valuable comnmads we can use to manage our vSAN infrastructure.

1. First will check what are the  available command in powercli relate to the vSAN

Syntax

Get-command *vsan*

2. We can check the health of vSAN cluster

Syntax

Get-Cluster|testVsanClusterHeath|fl

3. We can get the vSAN cluster configuration using below command

Get-VsanClusterConfiguraiton|fl

4. Using Get-VsanDiskGropu command we can get disk group details

How to configure SMB share on vSAN

1. First we need to enable file services on vSAN cluster

a. Login to the vCenter

b. Select the cluster

c. Click on Configure

d. Click on Services

e. Click on Enable  on File services

2. Click on Next

3. We need to provide below details

Powercli run commands inside the vm without network connectivity

We need to run some commands inside one of the vm , but its not connect to the network

First we need to connect to the vCenter using powercli

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1. Get a putty session to vCenter appliance

2. Run belwo command

3. Select Option 03 and it will generate new password for SSO admin

Powershell script to get VM details with CSV name

$getallvms=(get-vm -ComputerName (Get-ClusterNode))

$result=@()

foreach ($item in $getallvms)

{

$vmname=$item.Name

$vmfullpath=$item.ConfigurationLocation

$vmpathtrim=$vmfullpath.Substring(18)

$pathindex=$vmpathtrim.indexof(“\”)

$csvpathfrom=$vmpathtrim.substring(0,$pathindex)

$properties=@{

Name=$vmname

Path=$csvpathfrom

 #Write-Host $item.name

 }

 $result+=New-Object psobject -Property $properties

}

$result |Sort-Object path

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