Powercli 6.5 and Virtual SAN

Storage Module Updates

The PowerCLI Storage module has been a big focus on this release. A lot of functionality has been added around vSAN, VVOLs, and the handling of virtual disks. The vSAN cmdlets have been bolstered to more than a dozen cmdlets which are focused on the entire lifecycle of a vSAN cluster. The entire vSAN cluster creation process can be automated with PowerCLI as well as running tests, updating the HCL database, and much more!

• Get-VsanClusterConfiguration
• Get-VsanDisk
• Get-VsanDiskGroup
• Get-VsanFaultDomain
• Get-VsanResyncingComponent
• Get-VsanSpaceUsage
• New-VsanDisk
• New-VsanDiskGroup
• New-VsanFaultDomain
• Remove-VsanDisk
• Remove-VsanDiskGroup
• Remove-VsanFaultDomain
• Set-VsanClusterConfiguration
• Set-VsanFaultDomain
• Test-VsanClusterHealth
• Test-VsanNetworkPerformance
• Test-VsanStoragePerformance
• Test-VsanVMCreation
• Update-VsanHclDatabase

vSphere 6.5 introduces a new way to handle the management of virtual disks. Instead of managing a VM’s hard disks through the VM, they can now be managed independently with new PowerCLI cmdlets. This allows the handling of a virtual disk’s lifecycle to be decoupled from the lifecycle of a VM. This adds a ton of flexibility!

• Copy-VDisk
• Get-VDisk
• Move-VDisk
• New-VDisk
• Remove-VDisk
• Set-VDisk

From: http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2016/11/new-release-powercli-6-5-r1.html