Saturday, July 24, 2021

PowerCLI Script to add NIC to virtual machines

 PowerCLI Script to add NIC to virtual machines


#Connect to vcenter server

Connect-viserver vcenter_server

#Get the network name as input

$VLAN = Read-Host "Enter the Network Name"

#Get the list of virtual machines from the servers.txt 

$vm = gc c:\temp\servers.txt

#Assign a new NIC to all the VM listed in servers.txt with VMXNET3 as type

Get-VM $vm | New-NetworkAdapter -Type Vmxnet3 -NetworkName $VLAN -WakeOnLan:$true -StartConnected:$true -Confirm:$false

#Disconnect from vcenter server

Disconnect-VIServer vcenter_server -Confirm:$False

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