Tag: Rules

 

I was trying to create a DRS Rule creation script but after a short search on the PowerCLI communities, I found some excellent stuff from @LucD. These are two scripts for Exporting and importing DRS rules.

To export your DRS-Rules, you can run the next script. The only thing you have to change is <cluster-name> to your cluster name.

#DRS-export-rules.PS1

$outfile = "C:\rules.txt"
Remove-Item $outfile
$clusterName = <cluster-name>
$rules = get-cluster -Name $clusterName | Get-DrsRule

foreach($rule in $rules){
  $line = (Get-View -Id $rule.ClusterId).Name
  $line += ("," + $rule.Name + "," + $rule.Enabled + "," + $rule.KeepTogether)
  foreach($vmId in $rule.VMIds){
    $line += ("," + (Get-View -Id $vmId).Name)
  }
  $line | Out-File -Append $outfile 
}

 

The import script looks like this:

#DRS-import-rules.PS1

$file = "C:\rules.txt"
$rules = Get-Content $file

foreach($rule in $rules){
  $ruleArr = $rule.Split(",")
  if($ruleArr[2] -eq "True"){$rEnabled = $true} else {$rEnabled = $false}
  if($ruleArr[3] -eq "True"){$rTogether = $true} else {$rTogether = $false}
  get-cluster $ruleArr[0] | `
    New-DrsRule -Name $ruleArr[1] -Enabled $rEnabled `
    -KeepTogether $rTogether `
    -VM (Get-VM -Name ($ruleArr[4..($ruleArr.Count - 1)])) 
}

 

If you want to create a new DRS-Rules, you only have to create your own rules.txt file like this:

<cluster-name>True,True,<vmname>,<vmname2>,<vmname3> <cluster-name>,False,True,<vmname>,<vmname2>

Now run the Import DRS-Rules script and in a blink of an eye, the new rules are created.

 

Source: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/195733?start=10&tstart=0