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VMware: Add PortGroup to all hosts in cluster with PowerCLI

Today we configured a new VLAN on the physical switches, now we need to configure a portgroup with vlan id on multiple ESX hosts in our cluster. To do this by hand it will cost 3 minutes per host, to script this.. you configure this in 10 seconds!

The script:

^{Get-Cluster “clustername” | Get-VMHost | Get-VirtualSwitch -Name “vSwitch0” | New-VirtualPortGroup -Name “VLAN-23-Citrix Provisioning” -VLanId 23}

Voila!

Sander

Sander Daems is founder and author of this blog and working as a Lead (Sr.) Consultant / Technical Project Lead at Unica ICT Solutions. Sander has 15+ years experience in IT, primary focus: virtualization, security and modern worksplace.

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Tags: Cluster, Portgroup, PowerCLI, Script, VMware, vSphere

17 thoughts on “VMware: Add PortGroup to all hosts in cluster with PowerCLI”

pcmrbztt says:

pcmrbztt (Quote)">05/05/2011 at 15:45 pcmrbztt(Quote)

Nice oneliner, always handy
getoks says:

getoks (Quote)">07/05/2011 at 12:42 getoks(Quote)

Great
John says:

John (Quote)">29/05/2011 at 03:43 John(Quote)

Excellent, this is not a default policy isnt it?
Dirch says:

Dirch (Quote)">10/08/2011 at 17:05 Dirch(Quote)

Thank you – saved me a lot of work. Maybe I should have spend some more time looking into scripts than add VLANs mindlessly 🙂
Jean-Baptiste says:

Jean-Baptiste (Quote)">07/12/2011 at 13:16 Jean-Baptiste(Quote)

Thank you.
It is realy helpfull.
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Dave says:

Dave (Quote)">21/10/2014 at 11:10 Dave(Quote)

Just started in VMware scripting and this is a great one-liner! Thanks for sharing 🙂
tom says:

tom (Quote)">24/06/2015 at 04:32 tom(Quote)

Thank you, you’re still helping someone….. 🙂
Jack says:

Jack (Quote)">15/10/2015 at 14:36 Jack(Quote)

Hi
it doesn’t work for me.
after I apply command i get prompt like that: “>>”.
nothing executes.
Jack says:

Jack (Quote)">15/10/2015 at 14:48 Jack(Quote)

ok, i know.
I had to write vSwitch0 without quotation marks.
Takahiro says:

Takahiro (Quote)">21/12/2015 at 03:51 Takahiro(Quote)

Thanks =0)
Grzeg says:

Grzeg (Quote)">08/03/2016 at 15:15 Grzeg(Quote)

REALLY nice! Thank you for sharing.
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Mahesh says:

Mahesh (Quote)">30/09/2016 at 02:12 Mahesh(Quote)

Thanks. It saves a lot of time.
vivek says:

vivek (Quote)">02/08/2017 at 06:15 vivek(Quote)

thanks, its saved my time.
karunagaran says:

karunagaran (Quote)">15/02/2018 at 11:59 karunagaran(Quote)

Hi,
Can anyone tell me how to add multiple vlan/port groups to one esxi host using csv. Please share me the csv format and script.