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Friday, December 20, 2019

VMware PowerCLI 101 - part6 - vSphere networking

Networking is one of the important factors for ensuring service availability. Incorrect network configurations will lead to the unavailability of data and services and if this happens in a production environment it will negatively affect the business. 

In this article, I will briefly explain how to use PowerCLI to work with basic vSphere networking.

Connect to vCenter server using:
Connect-VIServer <IP address of vCenter>


VM IP


To get all IP details of a VM:
(Get-VM -Name <VM name>).Guest.IPAddress




VM network adapters, MAC, and IP


To get all network adapters, MAC address and IP details of a VM:
(Get-VM -Name <VM name>).Guest.Nics | select *



OR

(Get-VM -Name <VM name>).ExtensionData.Guest.Net


VDS


To get all the Virtual Distributed Switches (VDS):
Get-VDSwitch



To get all the details of a specific VDS:
Get-VDSwitch -Name <VD Switch name> | select *




To get VDS security policy:
Get-VDSwitch -Name <VD Switch name> | Get-VDSecurityPolicy | select *



VD Port group


To get all port groups of a specific VDS:
Get-VDPortgroup -VDSwitch <VD Switch name>



To get all the details of a specific port group in a VDS:
Get-VDPortgroup -VDSwitch <VD Switch name> -Name <Port group name> | select *




VD Port


To get all VD ports of a specific VD port group in a VDS:
Get-VDSwitch <VD Switch name> | Get-VDPortgroup <Port group name> | Get-VDPort

To get only active VD ports of a specific VD port group in a VDS:
Get-VDSwitch <VD Switch name> | Get-VDPortgroup <Port group name> | Get-VDPort -ActiveOnly


To get all details of a specific VD port in a VDS:
Get-VDPort -Key <Value> -VDSwitch <VD Switch name> | select * 




VM connected to a VD port


To get the VM that is connected to a VD port:
(Get-VDPort -Key <Value> -VDSwitch <VD Switch name>).ExtensionData.Connectee
Get-VM -Id <VM Id>



Find VM using NIC MAC


Get-VM | where {$_.ExtensionData.Guest.Net.MacAddress -eq '<MAC Address>'}


Hope it was useful. Cheers!


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