Add and Remove VMs from app group via PS

[ThomasMc]

Having a little dig about to see if you could do this and are coming up with nothing, anyone know how to do this in powershell? or link the VSB job to another app group?

[Sethbartlett]

I am not seeing a way to add/remove VM's from an application group or even how to grab VMs out of an application group. I will have to do some digging...

[ThomasMc]

Cheer Seth, I thought I wasn't drilling in enough to get what I was looking for but like yourself couldn't find much from the current cmdlets. Funny thing is, the script that I'm doing is only missing this and a silly reset vcenter alarm to green to make it fully work.

[Sethbartlett]

You could always create a new application group on the fly and remove the old one and possibly add it back to the SureBackup job

[ThomasMc]

You could always create a new application group on the fly and remove the old one and possibly add it back to the SureBackup job

That was my original thinking but couldn't find how to change the SB Job App group or find its current App Group

1. Create New App Group with New vCenter Location
2. Edit vCenter SB Job changing Old App Group Name -> New App Group Name

[ThomasMc]

Only thing I can see is if I delete the App Group and SB Job and then recreate them both

[Sethbartlett]

What kind of script are you writing/what are you wanting to do? I might be able to help in another manner.

[ThomasMc]

It sort of goes like this

completed
1. vMotion vCenter VM
2. VM emigrating alarm triggers script
3. Waits for vMotion to complete
4. Find which host the VM was moved to
5. Update vCenter backup job

incomplete
6. update SB job somehow
7. Reset vCenter alarm to green and send report


What I've found is if the sb job is tied to the backup file it spins up 2 vCenter VMs on its next run(due to there being 2 of them in the file) and if its tied to the VI Host then it will be verifying the older backups

[ThomasMc]

This is what I have should I need to ditch App and SB

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$newhost = "ESXiHOST"
$appgroup = "vCenter App Group"
$vcvmname = "vcenter01.lab.local"
$vlab = "Virtual Lab 1"
$sbjobname = "Verify vCenter"

$fold = Get-VSBApplicationGroup | ?{$_.Name -eq $appgroup }

Remove-VSBApplicationGroup -AppGroup $fold -Confirm:$false

$newvsbserver = Get-VBRServer | ?{$_.Name -eq $newhost }
$newvsbobjt = Find-VBRObject -Server $newvsbserver | ?{$_.Name -eq $vcvmname }
Add-VSBApplicationGroup -Name $appgroup -Vm $newvsbobjt -Server $newvsbserver


$findvlab = Get-VSBVirtualLab | ?{$_.Name -eq $vlab }
$gnappgroup = Get-VSBApplicationGroup | ?{$_.Name -eq $appgroup }

Add-VSBJob -Name $sbjobname -VirtualLab $findvlab -AppGroup $gnappgroup

The Remove-VSBApplicationGroup seems to remove the App Group AND SB Job when ran(not sure if that by design or not but I can use to my advantage)

[Sethbartlett]

That would work. Seems pretty crazy but does work

[ThomasMc]

Wondering if you could help me out with this last bit, I'm trying to change the "Run Manually" from true to false, so far I've tried;

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$sbjob = Get-VSBJob | ?{$_.Name -eq "Verify vCenter"}
$sbjobopt = $sbjob.GetOptions()

$sbjobopt.RunManually = $false
"RunManually" is a ReadOnly property.

Set-VSBJobOptions -Job $sbjob -RunManually $false
Set-VSBJobOptions : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'RunManually'.

[Sethbartlett]

I'm not even sure of a Run Manually setting in the GUI. Why not just do:

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Get-VSBJob | ?{$_.name -eq "My Job"} | Start-VSBJob

[ThomasMc]

It controls this checkbox in the GUI



What I'm doing is
Reading the old Schedule info
Destroy old app group and job
Create new app group and job
update job with old schedule
enable schedule **


Suppose I could just run it from windows tasks if I can't get that to change

[Sethbartlett]

Here is what you would want to do:

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$OldJob = Get-VSBJob | ?{$_.name -eq "Old Sb Job" }
$Schedule = $OldJob.GetScheduleOptions()
# Delete job, create new job
$NewJob = Get-VSBJob | ?{$_.name -eq "New Job"}
$NewJob.SetScheduleOptions($Schedule)

This should give you all your scheduling information. Which you probably know this part. The other part you will want to do is this:

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$opt = $OldJob.GetOptions()
$NewOptions = New-Object Veeam.Backup.Model.CDRJobOptions -ArgumentList ($true, $opt.ShutdownTestVms, $opt.EmailNotification, $opt.EmailNotificationAddresses, $opt.SnmpNotification, $opt.LinkWithJobs, $opt.RunningVmsNumber)
$NewJob.SetOptions($NewOptions)

I am our unsupported powershell guy, but this will do exactly what you need. The constructor for Options looks like this:

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public CDRJobOptions(bool runManually, bool shutdownTestVms, bool emailNotification, string emailNotificationAddresses, bool snmpNotification, bool linkWithJobs, int runningVmsNumber)

[ThomasMc]

Awesome, thanks Seth

[ThomasMc]

Thanks again Seth, just thought I would add that if your using the above in a script then use

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$newjob.EnableScheduler()

at the end, for some reason when my script is doing the bizz it puts the job in a disabled state