PowerCLI Cookbook

Creating rules to maintain memberships of DRS groups using a custom function

In this recipe, you will create a list of rules that leverage the Update-VmDrsGroup function that you created in the previous recipe in order to keep assignments up to date in a very dynamic environment. These rules can be defined and then set as a scheduled job in PowerShell to ensure that the assignments are up to date at all times, even if administrators move a virtual machine to a different location.

Getting ready

To begin this recipe, you will need a PowerCLI window and the function that you created in the previous recipe. You will also need an active connection to a vCenter Server. All of the cmdlets will update groups on the cluster, BigCluster. You will need to ...