Scenario 23

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Scenario 23

Scenario:

You are the administrator of a large vSphere environment where management automation is extremely important. You need to produce PowerCLI to implement various changes to large sets of VMs. You need to create a PowerCLI script that can be used to change the connection state for all network adapters for all VMs.

Requirements:

Use PowerCLI scripts to perform each of the following:

Connect to vCenter Server.
Retrieve a list of all virtual network adapters from all VMs and store it in an object variable.
Display the current connection state of each adapter in the list.
Toggle the state of each adapter.
Re-display the current connection state of each adapter.

Environment Information:

vCenter Server = vcenter-01

Objective: : 8.1 Execute VMware Cmdlets and Customize Scripts Using PowerCLI

Guide Reference(s):

Chapter 1 – PowerCLI - Usage

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Solution

Use PowerCLI to run these commands:

Connect-VIServer vcenter-01

$MyNetAdapters = get-vm | Get-NetworkAdapter
foreach ($NIC in $$MyNetAdapters) { $NIC.ConnectionState }

foreach ($NIC in $$MyNetAdapters)
{ if ($NIC.ConnectionState.Connected)
{Set-NetworkAdapter $NIC -Connected:$false -Confirm:$false}
else
{Set-NetworkAdapter $NIC -Connected:$true -Confirm:$false}
}

$MyNetAdapters = get-vm | Get-NetworkAdapter
foreach ($NIC in $$MyNetAdapters) { $NIC.ConnectionState }