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Specify Resource Pools during VPG creation

Ted B
May 13, 2017 12:38:32 AM
Hi all!

I’m am trying to figure out how to specify a Resource Pools when creating the VPG using the script from the Automating Zerto whitepaper v2.0. All I am able to do is pick the parent cluster, but not anything underneath it.

As an example, the options presented via $VISiteInfoCMD2 from the script (run after a successful VPG setup via the script) only shows the top level options. I do see options in the script for:
```
""ResourcePoolIdentifier"":null
```
However, I do not see where I can pull that information from or specify it in the CSV.

Any help pointing me in the right direction would be great.

Thanks!

Ted
Harry S
May 16, 2017 10:06:27 AM

Hi Ted,

Have you tried to retrieve the Resource Pool information via the examples on page 21 in the whitepaper?

<code class=”EnlighterJSRAW” data-enlighter-language=”shell”>Getting resource pool info
$VIResourcePoolsURL = $baseURL+”virtualizationsites/$VPGRecoverySiteIdentifier/resourcepools”
$VIResourcePoolsCMD = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $VIResourcePoolsURL -TimeoutSec 100 -Headers $zertoSessionHeader -ContentType $TypeJSON

Here is some additional information from page 22 (under “Getting recovery info”):

<code class=”EnlighterJSRAW” data-enlighter-language=”shell”>$VPGResourcePoolIdentifier = $VPGSettings.Recovery.ResourcePoolIdentifier

and

<code class=”EnlighterJSRAW” data-enlighter-language=”shell”># Getting resource pool name
$VPGResourcePoolName = $VIResourcePoolsCMD | Where-Object {$_.ResourcePoolIdentifier -eq $VPGResourcePoolIdentifier} | select -ExpandProperty ResourcepoolName

and from page 23 to use the property when adding:

<code class=”EnlighterJSRAW” data-enlighter-language=”shell”>$VPGArrayLine | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name “VPGDefaultHostIdentifier” -Value $VPGDefaultHostIdentifier
$VPGArrayLine | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name “VPGResourcePoolName” -Value $VPGResourcePoolName
$VPGArrayLine | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name “VPGResourcePoolIdentifier” -Value $VPGResourcePoolIdentifier

So, I believe you can continue on with that section to come up with what you’re trying to accomplish. I don’t see those xls samples showing Resource Pools (in the “VPG, VM, VDISK, VNIC & Re-IP Settings Report), but if you can query them and export, you can use those names when creating a VPG (assuming since I haven’t personally tested).

Hopefully this gets your going in the right direction.

~Harry

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Ted B
May 17, 2017 12:08:24 AM
That’s exactly what I needed!

I hadn’t run that Settings Report (on Page 19) before. That’s exactly what I was looking for. I was kinda expecting it to a property of the ClusterIdentifier; however when it wasn’t there, I wasn’t sure where to go.

In case anyone wants to do the same:

Under the section # Running the creation process by VPG, as a VPG can contain multiple VMs, in the foreach loop I added:
```
$ResourcePool =$VPG.ResourcePool
```
Under the section # Getting Identifiers for VPG settings, I added:
```
$VISiteInfoURL5 = $BaseURL+"virtualizationsites/$TargetSiteIdentifier/resourcepools"
$VISiteInfoCMD5 = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $VISiteInfoURL5 -TimeoutSec 100 -Headers $zertosessionHeader -ContentType $ContentType
$ResourcePoolIdentifier = $VISiteInfoCMD5 | Where-Object {$_.ResourcepoolName -eq $ResourcePool} | select ResourcePoolIdentifier -ExpandProperty ResourcePoolIdentifier
```
Under the section # Building JSON Request for posting VPG settings to API, I removed the null in ResourcePoolIdentifier and added the $ResourcePoolIdentifier variable to look like this:
```
""ResourcePoolIdentifier"":""$ResourcePoolIdentifier""
```
You will also need a ResourcePool column added to the VPGs CSV to pull that info from.

Thanks for your help, Harry!

Ted

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