As a result of a new VCSA deployment, only a few SPBM policies will be present. Any previously available SPBM polices are lost with the previous VCSA instance.<\/p>\n
PowerCLI cmdlets<\/strong> The named policy is exported as an xml\u00a0file that looks something like this:<\/p>\n The Import-SpbmStoragePolicy\u00a0PowerCLI cmdlet allows administrators to import the SPBM xml.<\/p>\n These 2 cmdlets make it easy to download\/upload an SPBM policy xml file.<\/p>\n What about multiple policies?<\/strong> To export many policies, we’d need to enumerate the policies in vCenter.<\/p>\n Importing many policies would work the same way, but each policy would have to be passed to the cmdlet. The path and xml policy file names could be part of an array, or read directly from a directory.<\/p>\n Grabbing all the files in a path would look something like this:<\/p>\n To handle each of them, we can use Foreach again.<\/p>\n To see what each file contains, we’ll need to parse it.<\/p>\n The Result<\/strong>![](\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoPolicies.png\")
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\nThere is a PowerCLI cmdlet that will allow administrators to export SPBM policies. Basically the cmdlet is “Export the policy named ~whatever~ and put it in X folder<\/em>”<\/p>\nExport-SpbmStoragePolicy -StoragePolicy $policy -FilePath 'folder\\file path'<\/pre>\n
<\/p>\nImport-SpbmStoragePolicy -Name policyname -Description description -FilePath 'folder\\file.xml'<\/pre>\n
\nBut what if you have many policies? These cmdlets work one policy at a time<\/em>.<\/p>\n\r\n# Get a list of all the storage policies on the specified vCenter Server\r\n $StoragePolicies = Get-SpbmStoragePolicy -Server $Server\r\n \r\n # Enumerate the list of storage policies\r\n Foreach($StoragePolicy in $StoragePolicies) {\r\n \r\n# Get the name of the policy that is being exported.\r\n$PolicyName = $StoragePolicy.Name\r\n\r\nExport-SpbmStoragePolicy -FilePath $Path -StoragePolicy $StoragePolicy.Name -Server $Server\r\n }<\/pre>\n$PolicyFiles = Get-ChildItem $FilePath -Filter *.xml<\/pre>\n
Foreach ($PolicyFile in $PolicyFiles)<\/pre>\n
\r\n# Get the PolicyFile Path\r\n$PolicyFilePath = $PolicyFile.FullName\r\n\r\n# Get the contents of the file\r\n$xml = [xml](Get-Content $PolicyFilePath)\r\n\r\n# Grab the name of the policy so it may be set properly in vCenter\r\n$PolicyName = $xml.PbmCapabilityProfile.Name.'#text'\r\n\r\n# Grab the description of the policy so it may be set properly in vCenter\r\n$PolicyDescription = $xml.PbmCapabilityProfile.Description.'#text'\r\n\r\n# Import the policy\r\nImport-SpbmStoragePolicy -Name $PolicyName -Description $PolicyDescription -FilePath $PolicyFile<\/pre>\n
\nAfter a little cleanup and error handling,\u00a0the resulting script can allow the backup and recovery\u00a0of storage policies into a new vCenter instance.<\/p>\n