Add-SCVirtualizationManager

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01/03/2016

Add-SCVirtualizationManager

Adds a VMware vCenter Server to VMM.

Syntax

Parameter Set: Default
Add-SCVirtualizationManager [-ComputerName] <String> -Credential <VMMCredential> [-Certificate <ClientCertificate> ] [-Description <String> ] [-EnableSecureMode <Boolean> ] [-JobVariable <String> ] [-PROTipID <Guid]> ] [-RunAsynchronously] [-TCPPort <UInt32]> ] [-VMMServer <ServerConnection> ] [ <CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

The Add-SCVirtualizationManager cmdlet adds a VMware vCenter Server to your Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) environment so that VMM can connect to the vCenter Server and import its data. After you add the vCenter Server to VMM, you need to add the VMware ESX hosts associated with the vCenter Server before VMM can manage the virtual machines deployed on those hosts.

The default port used to connect to a VMware VirtualCenter Server computer is TCP port 443.

Parameters

-Certificate<ClientCertificate>

Specifies a security certificate object.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-ComputerName<String>

Specifies the name of a computer that VMM can uniquely identify on your network. Valid formats are:

-- FQDN
-- IPv4 or IPv6 address
-- NetBIOS name

Aliases	none
Required?	true
Position?	1
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-Credential<VMMCredential>

Specifies a credential object or, for some cmdlets, a Run As account object that contains the user name and password of an account that has permission to perform this action.

For more information about the PSCredential object, type Get-Help Get-Credential.

For more information about Run As accounts, type Get-Help New-SCRunAsAccount.

Aliases	none
Required?	true
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	True (ByValue)
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-Description<String>

States a description for the specified object.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-EnableSecureMode<Boolean>

Indicates whether VMM communicates with VMware ESX hosts and Citrix XenServer hosts in secure mode. The default value is $True.

Aliases	SecureMode
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-JobVariable<String>

Specifies that job progress is tracked and stored in the variable named by this parameter.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-PROTipID<Guid]>

Specifies the ID of the Performance and Resource Optimization tip (PRO tip) that triggered this action. This parameter lets you audit PRO tips.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-RunAsynchronously

Indicates that the job runs asynchronously so that control returns to the command shell immediately.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-TCPPort<UInt32]>

Specifies a numeric value that represents a TCP port.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-VMMServer<ServerConnection>

Specifies a VMM server object.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	True (ByValue)
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -OutBuffer, and -OutVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=113216).

Inputs

The input type is the type of the objects that you can pipe to the cmdlet.

Outputs

The output type is the type of the objects that the cmdlet emits.

VirtualizationManager

Examples

Example Example 1: Add a VMware vCenter Server to VMM

The first command gets the Run As account object named RunAsAccount03, and then stores the object in the $RunAsAccount variable. The required credentials for this operation are either a local Administrator account or a domain account with administrator rights on the vCenter Server that you want to add as a virtualization manager to VMM.

The second command obtains the security certificate from vCenterrServer01, and then stores it in the $Cert variable.

The last command adds the virtualization manager object named vCenterServer01 to the VMM database, imports the security certificate object, and specifies that VMM will use TCP port 443, the default port, to connect to that server. As the last command is processed, $Credential provides your Run As credentials to Add-SCVirtualizationManager.

PS C:\> $RunAsAccount = Get-SCRunAsAccount -Name "RunAsAccount03"
PS C:\> $Cert = Get-SCCertificate -Computername "vCenterServer01.Contoso.com"
PS C:\> Add-SCVirtualizationManager -ComputerName "vCenterServer01.Contoso.com" -Certificate $Cert -TCPPort 443 -Credential $RunAsAccount

Example Example 2: Add multiple VMware vCenter Servers to VMM

The second command stores the strings vCenterServer01.Contoso.com and vCenterServer02.Contoso.com, which are the names of two VMware vCenter Servers, in the $Servers variable.

The last command adds the two servers to VMM and specifies that VMM will import the security certificates and use TCP port 443, the default port, to connect to the virtualization manager service on vCenterServer01 and vCenterServer02. As this command is processed, $Credential provides your Run As credentials to Add-SCVirtualizationManager.

For more information about the standard Windows PowerShell Foreach statement, type Get-Help about_ForeEache.

PS C:\> $Credential = Get-SCRunAsAccount -Name "RunAsAccount03"
PS C:\> $Servers = "vCenterServer01.Contoso.com", "vCenterServer02.Contoso.com"
PS C:\> Foreach ($Server in $Servers) {$Cert = Get-SCCertificate -Computername $Server;  Add-SCVirtualizationManager -ComputerName $Server -Certificate $Cert -TCPPort 443 -Credential $Credential}

Get-SCVirtualizationManager

Read-SCVirtualizationManager

Remove-SCVirtualizationManager

Set-SCVirtualizationManager

Restart-SCJob

Get-SCCertificate

Get-SCRunAsAccount

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