{"id":3400,"date":"2015-12-22T14:04:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T20:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2015-12-22T21:56:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T03:56:38","slug":"vsan-spbm-compliance-powercli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/vsan-spbm-compliance-powercli\/","title":{"rendered":"VSAN, SPBM Compliance, & PowerCLI"},"content":{"rendered":"

I very often tear down\/distress my “lab” environment while working on docs\/testing code\/trying to replicate issues\/etc. I was trying to recreate an issue the other day and decided to replace my vCenter Appliance. I deleted the VCSA, but left some of the other VMs, as they had some services I needed like DNS.<\/p>\n

After deploying the a new VCSA, I noticed an error in the Cluster’s Monitor tab, under Virtual SAN, specific to my VSAN objects. \u00a0The Compliance status for all my old VM’s was “Out of Date.”<\/p>\n

I clicked on a single VM, picked my VM storage policy, and selected the VM home and clicked OK. I could have just as easily selected Apply to all. Not hard, but potentially time consuming in the case of a lot of objects.<\/p>\n

\"noncompliant\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I thought for a second. I’d rather not do this for each of these objects\u2026 Plus, I’ll likely tear down the VCSA again\u2026 So why not script it?<\/p>\n

I looked at 2 PowerCLI cmdlets to handle this. Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration<\/a><\/strong> shows the currently assigned SPBM policy, along with whether it is compliant or not, and the last time it was checked. Set-SpbmEntityConfiguration<\/a><\/strong> sets SPBM configuration data for VMs, HardDisks, and cluster objects.<\/p>\n

My PowerShell\/PowerCLI is a little rusty, but I was able to crank out a one liner for the\u00a0task.<\/p>\n

Set-SpbmEntityConfiguration -Configuration (Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration | \r\nWhere-Object {$_.ComplianceStatus -eq 'outOfDate'}) -StoragePolicy $_.StoragePolicy<\/pre>\n
\"compliant\"<\/a><\/p>\n
I didn’t really sort those objects, but adding “Sort -Property Id” to the Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration call would clean it up. Hard disks would then be listed under their VM’s home entity.<\/p>\n
Refreshing the Web Client, all of the objects show as Compliant.<\/p>\n
Also, in the script, I’m only reapplying policies to objects that are out of compliance.<\/p>\n
\"showcompliance\"<\/a><\/p>\n
A quick check using “Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration” shows that all my VM’s are compliant with their assigned Storage Policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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