As explained in Automating vFRC deployment with PowerCLI post a few steps are required in order to register the VMware.VimAutomation.Extensions module.
After that several new cmdlets become available:
Get-VsanDisk
Get-VsanDiskGroup
New-VsanDisk
New-VsanDiskGroup
Remove-VsanDisk
Remove-VsanDiskGroup
The following script allows you to automate the creation of a VSAN enabled cluster in just one click.
Here the steps performed by the script:
-Import VSAN cmdlets in PowerCLI session in order to use new cmdlets.
-Connect to vCenter Server.
-Create a Datacenter.
-Create a VSAN enabled Cluster.
-Insert and assign license to VSAN cluster (this is optional but in my vLab I was not able to claim VSAN disks without prior licensing VSAN solution).
-Add all hosts participating in VSAN cluster.
-Add a VSAN vmkernel to each host vSwitch.
Prior launching PowerCLI script make sure you correctly set required variables.
Here is the script, I've also added it on my GitHub repository:
Download Automating VSAN.ps1 from GitHub
#Registering VSAN PowerCLI module
$p = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("PSModulePath")
echo $p #Show your current path to modules
$p += ";C:\Users\Paolo\WindowsPowerShell\Modules" #Add your custom location for modules
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PSModulePath",$p)
#Variable declaration
$vCenterIPorFQDN="192.168.243.40"
$vCenterUsername="Administrator@vsphere.local"
$vCenterPassword="vmware"
$DatacenterFolder="DCFolder"
$DatacenterName="VSANDC"
$ClusterName="NewCluster"
$VSANHosts= @("192.168.243.137","192.168.243.142","192.168.243.141") #IP or FQDN of hosts participating in VSAN cluster
$HostUsername="root"
$HostPassword="mypassword"
$vSwitchName="vSwitch0" #vSwitch on which create VSAN enabled vmkernel
$VSANvmkernelIP= @("10.24.45.1","10.24.45.2","10.24.45.3") #IP for VSAN enabled vmkernel
$VSANvmkernelSubnetMask="255.255.255.0" #Subnet Mask for VSAN enabled vmkernel
$vsanLicense="XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX" #VSAN License code
Write-Host "Importing PowerCLI VSAN cmdlets" -foregroundcolor "magenta"
Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.Extensions
Write-Host "Connecting to vCenter" -foregroundcolor "magenta"
Connect-VIServer -Server $vCenterIPorFQDN -User $vCenterUsername -Password $vCenterPassword
Write-Host "Creating Folder" -foregroundcolor "magenta"
Get-Folder -NoRecursion | New-Folder -Name $DatacenterFolder
Write-Host "Creating Datacenter and Cluster" -foregroundcolor "magenta"
New-Cluster -Location (
New-Datacenter -Location $DatacenterFolder -Name $DatacenterName
) -Name $ClusterName -VsanEnabled:$true -VsanDiskClaimMode Automatic
$i = 0 #Initialize loop variable
Write-Host "Licensing VSAN cluster" -foregroundcolor "magenta"
#Credits to Mike Laverick - http://www.mikelaverick.com/2013/11/back-to-basics-post-configuration-of-vcenter-5-5-install-powercli/
$datacenterMoRef = (Get-Cluster -Name NewCluster | get-view).MoRef
$serviceinstance = Get-View ServiceInstance
$LicManRef=$serviceinstance.Content.LicenseManager
$LicManView=Get-View $LicManRef
$licenseassetmanager = Get-View $LicManView.LicenseAssignmentManager
$licenseassetmanager.UpdateAssignedLicense($datacenterMoRef.value,$vsanLicense,"Virtual SAN 5.5 Advanced")
foreach ($element in $VSANHosts) {
Write-Host "Adding" $element "to Cluster" -foregroundcolor "magenta"
Add-VMHost $element -Location $ClusterName -User $HostUsername -Password $HostPassword -RunAsync -force:$true
Write-Host "One minute sleep in order to register" $element "into the cluster" -foregroundcolor "magenta"
Start-Sleep -s 60
Write-Host "Enabling VSAN vmkernel on" $element "host" -foregroundcolor "magenta"
if ($i -le $VSANHosts.Length) {
New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost (Get-VMHost -Name $element) -PortGroup VSAN -VirtualSwitch $vSwitchName -IP $VSANvmkernelIP[$i] -SubnetMask $VSANvmkernelSubnetMask -VsanTrafficEnabled:$true
}
$i++
}
Other blog posts in VSAN Series:
VSAN Part1 - Introduction
VSAN Part2 - Initial Setup
VSAN Part3 - Storage Policies
VSAN Part4 - Automate VSAN using PowerCLI
