Add-SCVirtualizationManager

Adds a VMware vCenter Server to VMM.

Description

The Add-SCVirtualizationManager cmdlet adds a VMware vCenter Server to your System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) environment so that VMM can connect to the vCenter Server and import its data. After you add the vCenter Server to VMM, you need to add the VMware ESX hosts associated with the vCenter Server before VMM can manage the virtual machines deployed on those hosts. 

The default port used to connect to a VMware VirtualCenter Server computer is TCP port 443.

For more information about Add-SCVirtualizationManager, type: "Get-Help Add-SCVirtualizationManager -online".

Parameters

ComputerName

Required? true
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? 0
Specifies the name of a computer that VMM can uniquely identify on your network. Valid formats are: FQDN, IPv4 or IPv6 address, or NetBIOS name.

NOTE: See the examples for a specific cmdlet to determine how that cmdlet specifies the computer name.

Credential

Required? true
Accept Pipeline Input? true (ByValue)
Position? named
Specifies a credential object or, for some cmdlets, a Run As account object that contains the user name and password of an account that has permission to perform this action. Or, in the case of Restart-SCJob, has permission to complete a restarted task. 

For more information about the PSCredential object, type: "Get-Help Get-Credential". 
For more information about Run As accounts, type: "Get-Help New-SCRunAsAccount".

Certificate

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies a security certificate object.

Description

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
States a description for the specified object.

EnableSecureMode

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Indicates whether VMM communicates with VMware ESX hosts and Citrix XenServer hosts in secure mode. The default value is $True.

JobVariable

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies that job progress is tracked and stored in the variable named by this parameter. 

PROTipID

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies the ID of the PRO tip that triggered this action. This allows for auditing of PRO tips.

RunAsynchronously

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Indicates that the job runs asynchronously so that control returns to the command shell immediately. 

TCPPort

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies a numeric value that represents a TCP port. 

VMMServer

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? true (ByValue)
Position? named
Specifies a VMM server object.

Examples

1: Add a VMware vCenter Server to VMM.
PS C:\> $RunAsAccount = Get-SCRunAsAccount -Name "RunAsAccount03"
PS C:\> $Cert = Get-SCCertificate -Computername "vCenterServer01.Contoso.com"
PS C:\> Add-SCVirtualizationManager -ComputerName "vCenterServer01.Contoso.com" -Certificate $Cert -TCPPort 443 -Credential $RunAsAccount 
The first command gets the Run As account object named RunAsAccount03 and stores the object in the $RunAsAccount variable. The required credentials for this operation are either a local Administrator account or a domain account with administrator rights on the vCenter Server that you want to add as a virtualization manager to VMM. 

The second command obtains the security certificate from vCenterrServer01 and stores it in the $Cert variable.

The last command adds the virtualization manager object named vCenterServer01 to the VMM database, imports the security certificate object, and specifies that VMM will use TCP port 443 (the default port) to connect to that server. As the last command is processed, $Credential provides your Run As credentials to Add-SCVirtualizationManager. 
2: Add multiple VMware vCenter Servers to VMM.
PS C:\> $Credential = Get-SCRunAsAccount -Name "RunAsAccount03" 
PS C:\> $Servers = "vCenterServer01.Contoso.com", "vCenterServer02.Contoso.com"
PS C:\> ForEach ($Server in $Servers) {$Cert = Get-SCCertificate -Computername $Server;  Add-SCVirtualizationManager -ComputerName $Server -Certificate $Cert -TCPPort 443 -Credential $Credential}
The first command gets the Run As account object named RunAsAccount03 and stores the object in the $RunAsAccount variable. The required credentials for this operation are either a local Administrator account or a domain account with administrator rights on the vCenter Server that you want to add as a virtualization manager to VMM. 

The second command stores the strings "vCenterServer01.Contoso.com" and "vCenterServer02.Contoso.com", which are the names of two VMware vCenter Servers, in the $Servers variable.

The last command adds the two servers to VMM and specifies that VMM will import the security certificates  and  use TCP port 443 (the default port) to connect to the virtualization manager service on vCenterServer01 and vCenterServer02. As this command is processed, $Credential provides your Run As credentials to Add-SCVirtualizationManager.  

For more information about the standard Windows PowerShell foreach loop statement, type: Get-Help about_ForEach.

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