One of the updated capabilities in the new Site Recovery Manager 5.8 release is the ability to change some recovery settings like the recovery priority and script callouts via the SRM API. With the release of PowerCLI 5.8 R1 these capabilities are also exposed for scripting via the SRM API!
To make it easier to script against the API in PowerCLI I’ve been working on some helper SRM functions and have updated them to support some of the new capabilities.
Here’s a short example using PowerCLI to update the recovery priority of a VM and add a new post recovery call-out.
And here’s some code to perform something similar to what was done in the video using the custom SRM functions [at 2014-11-17].
# Load the custom functions
. ./SrmFunctions.ps1
. ./Examples/ReportConfiguration.ps1
# Connect to protected site VC & SRM
$creds = Get-Credential
$vca = Connect-VIServer vc-w12-01a.corp.local -Credential $creds
$srma = Connect-SrmServer -Server $vca -Credential $creds -RemoteCredential $creds
# Output Current SRM Configuration Report
Get-SrmConfigReport
# get recovery plan
$rp = Get-RecoveryPlan "Anaheim"
# get protected VM
$pvm = $rp | Get-ProtectedVM | Select -First 1
# view recovery settings
$rs = $pvm | Get-RecoverySettings -RecoveryPlan $rp
# update recovery priority
$rs.RecoveryPriority = "highest"
# create new command callout
$srmCmd = New-SrmCommand -Command '/bin/bash /root/failover.sh' -Description 'Run standard linux failover script' -RunInRecoveredVm
# add command as post recovery command callout
Add-PostRecoverySrmCommand -RecoverySettings $rs -SrmCommand $srmCmd
# update the recovery settings on the SRM server
Set-RecoverySettings -ProtectedVm $pvm -RecoveryPlan $rp -RecoverySettings $rs
# validate recovery settings (view in report)
Get-SrmConfigReportProtectedVm