Today’s fun thing: utilizing powershell to test stuff in VMware. There are a few cool things I have been able to piece together with Powershell and VMware -hopefully some of those will make it into a brief series.

Function 1: PowerCLI

$vm = get-vm testVM
$VLANs = "3","5","08","09","11","18","22","35","59","106","112","201","202","222"
foreach ($vlan in $VLANs){
     $vm |Get-NetworkAdapter|Set-NetworkAdapter -networkname "VLAN $vlan" -Confirm:$false
     write-host "Press any key to continue..."
     $null = $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")
}

Function 2: Testing VM

$VLANs = "3","5","08","09","11","18","22","35","59","106","112","201","202","222"
foreach ($vlan in $VLANS) {
     .\set-StaticIP.ps1 -ip 10.10.$vlan.254 -gtw 10.1.$vlan.254
     start-sleep 5
     $ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
     $rslt = $ping.send("10.10.3.3")
     if ($rslt.status.tostring() -eq "Success"){
          write-host "Vlan $vlan tested ok"
     }
     else {​
          write-host "Vlan $vlan ping test failed"
     }
     write-host "Press any key to continue..."
     $null = $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")
}

Script 1: set-StaticIP.ps1

param(  [string]$ip,
     [string]$mask = "255.255.255.0",
     [string]$gtw = "192.168.1.254",
     [string]$dns1 = "192.168.1.1",
     [st​ring]$dns2
     )
$NICs = Get-WMIObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration | where{$_.IPEnabled -eq "TRUE"}
Foreach($NIC in $NICs) {
     if ($ip){
          $no = $NIC.EnableStatic($ip, $mask)
     }
     $no = $NIC.SetGateways($gtw)
     if($dns2){
          $dns ="$dns1,$dns2"
     }
     $no = $NIC.SetDNSServerSearchOrder($dns)
     $no = $NIC.SetDynamicDNSRegistration("FALSE")
}

Explanation