Powershell cmdlet for Failover in Live environment

Hey Thulasiraman,

In order to do this you need to use the REST API call:

https://zvm_ip:port/v1/vpgs – POST Methods Creates a VPG or performs actions on a specific VPG.

https://zvm_ip:port/v1/vpgs/{protectionGroupIdentifier}/Failover

You can also see some examples in my blog post here:

https://virtuallysober.com/2014/03/26/scripting-a-recovery-plan/

Thanks,

Joshua

Can some one specify the format of {protectionGroupIdentifier}, or how can we retrieve that from vpg

Hi Shirish – you can retrieve identifiers via the VPG API. Here is the reference for that API: http://s3.amazonaws.com/zertodownload_docs/Latest/Zerto%20Virtual%20Replication%20Zerto%20Virtual%20Manager%20%28ZVM%29%20-%20vSphere%20Online%20Help/index.html#page/RestfulAPIs%2FStatusAPIs.5.107.html%23 — Justin

Thanks Justin, i tried this with no luck.

Can some one confirm if VPGidentifier is same as protectiongroupidentifier.

My goal is to run failovertest using api call and i need protectiongroupidentifier and checkpoint  details to post

that request.

Does any one have this script with powershell readily available for failovertest? if so i can use it as reference.

Thanks

Hi, we have just published a CLI utility that allows you to perform both live and failover tests using a CSV with your VPGs in it – so far we have tested it with a customer who has 80+ VPGs and it makes performing a test as simple as running one short command line 🙂

The live failover has been tested but only with a handful of VPGs, however should scale without issues as its almost the same code.

Check out https://www.zerto.com/myzerto/forums/topic/zerto-failover-cli-utility/

Or visit our github page directly at https://github.com/assurestor

Hi Jason,

When I try to use/run your ZertoFailover Utility, I keep getting the following:

ERROR  Unable to authenticate with ZVM API

I have inputted my [vCenter] and [ZVM] details into the zertoFailover.ini file.

I am trying to run this Utility from our Windows ZVM Server using Powershell 7.3.0

I am not sure what I am doing wrong here, but any advice or direction would be much appreciated.

Thank you.