PowerShell – Getting Started

Hey Wally,

Did you download and install the Zerto PS CMDlets from the software download section in MyZerto? I’d also recommend checking out the documentation section and reading the “Automating Zerto Virtual Replication with PowerShell and REST APIs Whitepaper v2.0.pdf” which removes the need to use the PS CMDlets for 95% of use cases. Any further questions let me know. Thanks,

Joshua

@Wally – Hopefully you got the cmdlets installed and are up and running.  If you are still working on this, I also went as far as creating a profile so the snapIn loads when I start PowerShell:

<!–?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?–>

Sorry, to correct the above (I can’t edit my posts here for some reason with Chrome).

What I added to the profile was:

Add-PSSnapIn Zerto.PS.Commands

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

.$profile

I have yet to come across ANY “downloads section” in MyZerto.  The only ‘menu’ choices are Home, Forums, Knowledge Base, Technical Documentation and Training.  Can someone please provide the actual link that takes a person to a download for the PowerShell cmdlets?  I keep getting lost in the various pages where I thought downloads might be, only to get further lost in the weeds.

Hi Miguel V,

At the top of the myZerto page (this page) you should see some navigation tabs that will bring you where you need to go.

Under the “Technical Documentation” tab, you will find the Automation Whitepaper here (“White Paper – Automating Zerto Virtual Replication with PowerShell & REST APIs”).

Also, if you see (you mentioned you don’t see it? I’m checking into this separately) a “Support & Downloads” tab, this is where you’ll find the download for the “Zerto Virtual Replication Cmdlets.”

Gene (thanks!) provided some guidance above on installing them. I was going to provide more, but I don’t believe that’s even what you need/are asking.

I hope this helps you to move forward!

~Harry

Hi Harry,

I have installed the zerto powershell cmdlets. But I am not able to run any of the command.

Here is the error , I am  getting

Get-CheckPoints : System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: An error occurred while receiving the HTTP response to http://10.0.0.211:9669/ZvmService/SiteController. This could be
due to the service endpoint binding not using the HTTP protocol. This could also be due to an HTTP request context being aborted by the server (possibly due to the service shutting
down). See server logs for more details. —> System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive. —> System.IO.IOException:
Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. —> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An existing connection
was forcibly closed by the remote host

Hey All,

I am getting the same endpoint binding issue, i am reviewing the Rest API Guide sounds like thats the way to go here. Do i run the scripts for the Rest APIs on my ZVM’s?

Could someone provide a default Rest API script to , for example “get-protectiongroups” so i can have a baseline to work off?

Thanks guys!

Hey Guys this is what im working w/ right now ,

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add-pssnapin zerto.ps.commands

Get-ProtectionGroups -SiteName $zertosite -ZVMIP $ZertoServer -ZVMPort $ZertoPort  -Username $ZertoUser -Password $ZertoPassword -SiteName $zertosite

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and i get a 503 error

and

http://IP:9669/ZvmService/SiteController is unavailable

thanks