Enabling Network IO Control (NIOC) through PowerCLI
Here's a short one. One of my customers is using the VMware Distributed vSwitch in multiple vCenter inventories. Since each vCenter maintains its own instance of the vSwitch, I was tasked with putting together an easy and repeatable process to create identically configured vSwitches across all of these environments. In other words, I was asked for a script! Most of the process is very well documented online, but there was one aspect of the config that was a struggle: enabling NIOC via PowerCLI. It's a simple checkbox in the GUI, but near as I can tell, there was no simple way to enable it in a PowerShell script. Like so often in life, LucD has the answer . This specific nugget of information is a bit buried, so I figured that I'd put together a quick note expanding on it. There's an API method, EnableNetworkResourceManagement(), that can toggle that setting for the DVS, but that method doesn't exist under the normal PowerCLI DVS object. ...