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[KristianW]

Made a small script (with help from interweb) to add NFS datastore to all ESXhosts in cluster.

Code:

foreach
($ESXhost in get-cluster <CLUSTER>| get-vmhost

{

New-datastore –nfs –vmhost $ESXhost –name <DATASTORENAME> –path /<PATH> –nfshost <NFSHOST>

}

#change <CLUSTER> to your clustername
#change <DATASTORENAME>, <PATH> and <NFSHOST> to desired settings.

NFSHOST can be ip-address or simply hostname


On a side note:
Anyone capable of adding some functionallity to the script?
I got 2 datacenters, with 3 clusters all together.

What I would like is an addon/fix - where I can do this with one script and three different settings for the individual clusters.

[esarakaitis]

try using the where-object function...

so where $cluster.name -eq "abc", do these settings

[KristianW]

try using the where-object function...

so where $cluster.name -eq "abc", do these settings

Putting my head out here... Something like this??

Code:

foreach ($ESXhost in Get-Cluster | Get-VMHost
        where $cluster.name -eq "DEV"
                $Path="dd_dev"
                $NFSip="192.168.1.250"
        where $cluster.name -eq "TEST"
                $Path="dd_test"
                $NFSip="192.168.1.251"
        where $cluster.name -eq "Prod"
                $Path="dd_prod"
                $NFSip="192.168.1.252"
        {
        New-Datastore -Nfs -VMHost $ESXhost -Name $Path -Path /backup -NfsHost $NFSip
        }
 

[esarakaitis]

looks good, did it work? I'm guessing you'll need to increment $path