Creating Protection Groups

[filipsmeets]

Hi

I'm trying to script the creation of Protection Groups based on Clusters found in AD.

#Find clusters.
$AD = Get-VBRADDomain -ServerName $domainc -Credentials $credentials
$root = Find-VBRADEntity -Domain $AD
$clustersMX = Find-VBRADEntity -Domain $AD -Root $root -Recurse -Type Cluster |Where-Object{$_.Name -like ($site + "*MX*")}

#Create containers to be used in the Protection groups.
$scopeMX = New-VBRADContainer -Domain $AD -Entity $clustersMX -MasterCredentials $credentials -ExcludeVMs $false

When creating the containers, I would like to set the ExcludeVMs to $false but this is not possible.

New-VBRADContainer : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'False'.
At line:1 char:12
+ $scopeMX = New-VBRADContainer -Domain $AD -Entity $clustersMX -Master ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-VBRADContainer], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Cmdlets.NewVBRADContainer

#Create Protection Group
Add-VBRProtectionGroup -Name $clustersMX.Name.Substring(0,14) -Container $scopeMX -Description $descrMX -DeploymentOptions $options -AdvancedOptions $advoptions -NotificationOptions $notify

The ExcludeVMs property is ReadOnly:

>$scopeMX.ExcludeVMs = $false
'ExcludeVMs' is a ReadOnly property.
At line:1 char:1
+ $scopeMX.ExcludeVMs = $false
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PropertyAssignmentException

[jhoughes]

You need to set the Exclude VMs parameter with a colon like this:

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$scopeMX = New-VBRADContainer -Domain $AD -Entity $clustersMX -MasterCredentials $credentials -ExcludeVMs:$false

[filipsmeets]

It worked. Thx!