Ever have a VMware View Replica shown in vSphere Client but unable to move, edit, or delete it? I have. First assume you really know what your doing and you need to modify it. Normally VMware View attempts to protect you from yourself and protects your replicas, even from you. But sometimes you may need to mofity them anyway and to do so you'll need to remove the protection.
To do this you will need to use the SviConfig Command on the View Composer server. The Syntax on it usage isn't to hard but the inventory path wasn't very clear. Thus the problem is figuring out the syntax in order to remove the connection. As a Solution This is a Powershell script that will display the correct syntax to remove the VMware View Protection from the replica. SviConfig usage for unptotectentity are as follows:
sviconfig -operation=unprotectentity
-VcUrl=https://<VirtualCenter address>/sdk
-Username=<VirtualCenter account name>
-Password=<VirtualCenter account password>
-InventoryPath=/<Datacenter name>/[vm|host]/<folder name>/<vm name>
-Recursive=[true|false]
What I wrote is a powershell Script that generates the unprotect commands. The script requires the VMware vSphere PowerCLI to be installed but doens't have to be run from the View Composer server. This script only creates the commands, it does not execute sviconfig in anyway. Instead it Creates the commands and puts them in a text file then shows you the text file.
Download UnprotectVmwareViewReplicas.ps1
Example Output
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| Output of Unprotect Replicas Commands |
UnprotectVmwareViewReplicas.ps1
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#
# Purpose: Build Commands to remove Unprotection VMware View Replicas
# Created By: Chris Towles
# Site: http://www.christowles.com
# When: 11/23/2010
# Version: 1.1
# Change List
#
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$vCenter = Read-Host "Please enter your Vmware VSphere IP or DNS Name"
$ViewComposer = Read-Host "Please enter ViewComposer IP or DNS Name"
$VMwareUserName = Read-Host "Please enter your Vmware VSphere UserName - shown in the in the command but is not used."
$VMwarePassword = Read-Host "Please enter your Vmware VSphere Password - shown in the in the command but is not used."
function Get-VMFolder ($VirtualMachine) {
$FoundVMs = Get-VM $VirtualMachine -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ( $FoundVMs -ne $null) {
foreach($vm in $FoundVMs){
$NetFolder = Get-View $vm.Folder
$folderPath = @()
$folderPath += $NetFolder.Name
$folder = $null
$folder = Get-Folder -Id $NetFolder.Parent | select -Index 0 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$folderPath += Get-ParentFolder $folder
[string] $path = ""
foreach ($part in $folderPath) {
$path = "/$part" + $path
}
$path + "/$vm"
}
}
}
Function Get-ParentFolder ($NetFolder) {
$NetFolder.Name
if($NetFolder.ParentID -ne $null)
{
if($NetFolder.ParentID -match 'DataCenter-*'){
$NetFolder.Parent.Name
}
else{
$folder = Get-Folder -Id $NetFolder.ParentID
Get-ParentFolder $folder
}
}
}
Connect-VIServer $vCenter
$VMPaths = Get-VMFolder "replica*"
$CommandString = @()
$CommandString += "CD C:\Program Files (X86)\VMware\VMware View Composer\"
$CommandString += ""
Write-host "Found the following Replicas"
foreach($vmpath in $VMPaths) {
$vmpath
$CommandString += "sviconfig -operation=unprotectentity -VcUrl=https://$ViewComposer/sdk -Username=$VMwareUserName -Password=$VMwarePassword -InventoryPath=$vmpath -Recursive=false"
$CommandString += ""
}
$Tempfile = "$Env:TEMP\" + "unprotectentity.txt"
Remove-Item $Tempfile -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #delete file incase it already exists
####### Open the File to display the commands #######
Set-Content $Tempfile $CommandString
Start notepad $Tempfile -Wait
Remove-Item $Tempfile -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
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CD C:\Program Files (X86)\VMware\VMware View Composer\ sviconfig -operation=unprotectentity -VcUrl=https://vcenter2/sdk -Username=user -Password=pass -InventoryPath=///replica-5ef2d325-e627-476e-8c33-0b63e6adaaf5 -Recursive=false
VC server connection established successfully.
ReplyDeleteLooking for the entity on the VC server.
SviConfig finished with an error. Exit code: 11
Entity not found.
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ReplyDeleteWorked like a charm, thanks!!
ReplyDeleteReally useful script. Thank you.
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