Comments on: PowerCLI: Set-dvSwitch

By: afokkema

afokkema — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:41:51 +0000

Thanks for the tip.

By: VirtualizationCOE

VirtualizationCOE — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:52:53 +0000

We solved our own issue with the help of Onyx. You need to add some additional device specs to maintain your previous NICS settings:

Here is the updated code:

$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
$devChange = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec
$devChange.operation = “edit”

$dev = New-Object (“VMware.Vim.” + $tgtdev.GetType().Name)
$dev.deviceInfo = New-Object VMware.Vim.Description
$dev.deviceInfo.label = $tgtdev.DeviceInfo.Label
$dev.deviceInfo.summary = $tgtdev.DeviceInfo.Summary
$dev.Backing = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualEthernetCardDistributedVirtualPortBackingInfo
$dev.Backing.Port = New-Object VMware.Vim.DistributedVirtualSwitchPortConnection
$dev.Backing.Port.PortgroupKey = $dvPGKey
$dev.Backing.Port.SwitchUuid = $dvSwitchUuid
$dev.Key = $tgtdev.Key

$dev.connectable = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConnectInfo
$dev.connectable.startConnected = $tgtdev.connectable.startConnected
$dev.connectable.allowGuestControl = $tgtdev.connectable.allowGuestControl
$dev.connectable.connected = $tgtdev.connectable.connected
$dev.connectable.status = $tgtdev.connectable.status
$dev.controllerKey = $tgtdev.controllerKey
$dev.unitNumber = $tgtdev.unitNumber
$dev.addressType = $tgtdev.addressType
$dev.macAddress = $tgtdev.MacAddress
$dev.wakeOnLanEnabled = $tgtdev.wakeOnLanEnabled

$devChange.Device = $dev
$spec.deviceChange = $devChange

$taskMoRef = $vm.ReconfigVM_Task($spec)

By: VirtualizationCOE

VirtualizationCOE — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:05:33 +0000

We are using this to migrate VM’s from standard vSwitches to vDS. The only problem we are having is that the MAC addresses seem to change on the NICs after migration. Is there a way to avoid this?

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