Post date: Nov 12, 2013 4:50:30 PM
For new deployments you may have hundreds of Portgroups to ad to a VDS. This allows to mass deploy and configure some additional security from a .csv list. This assumes you have only 1 VDS in you environment otherwise modify $VDSwitch to select the correct VDS you wish to add PGs too. You could also add another column for vdswitch to include multiple VDSwitches.
There is a limit to the number of ports a single VDS can have. To eliminate over port provisioning, count how many interfaces will be needed per portgroup for the portcount column.
*** Ok there is an issue with this that I am now aware of. Setting the dvUplink to reject reject reject WILL prevent a VM's traffic... as the uplink normally says "uplink" I'm currently using Get-VDPortgroup | ?{$_.Name -notlike "*uplink*"} to work-around this.
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#Author: Kris
#MassAddVDS-PG.ps1 v1 - 11/8/2013
#
#Create a .CSV with the following Columns
#NAME VLAN PORTCOUNT
#
#Useage: MassAddVDS-PG.ps1 ./PortGroupList.csv
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param(
[parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[string[]]$filename
)
#Getting List of PGs from .csv
$PGs = Import-CSV $filename -UseCulture
$VDSwitch = Get-VMhost | Get-VDSwitch
#Add VPGs to VDS
ForEach($PG in $PGs){$VDSwitch | New-VDPortgroup -Name $PG.Name -NumPorts $PG.Portcount -VlanId $PG.VLAN}
#Set REJECT REJECT REJECT
#$VDSwitch | Get-VDPortgroup | Get-VDSecurityPolicy | Set-VDSecurityPolicy -MacChanges $False -ForgedTransmits $False