31 January 2011

Enable SIOC On All Datastores

After reading what Duncan at Yellow-Bricks.com had to say about enabling SIOC (Storage I/O Control) on all datastores here and here, we were inspired to write a script to avoid having to do it by hand on the 370 datastores in our environment. Of course, LucD already has a SIOC script but it was written before VMware fixed the StorageResourceManager bug in PowerCLI 4.1.1 that he had to use a workaround for. LucD's script allows you to both query and set values--we just wanted one that enabled SIOC on all datastores that supported it as quickly as possible. In addition, we wanted to schedule it (this script is not schedule-ready) to run on a regular basis so that it can enable SIOC on newly created datastores without admins having to worry about it.

This is what we ended up with:
## Script function: Enable SIOC (Storage I/O Control) on all datastores that support it and do not already have it enabled.
## Author: vNugglets.com


## Set up specification to enable SIOC
$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.StorageIORMConfigSpec
$spec.Enabled = $True

## Create an array of datastore view objects that are SIOC capable and that do not already have it enabled
$arrSIOCableDatastores = @(Get-View -ViewType Datastore -Property Capability.StorageIORMSupported,IormConfiguration,Name -Filter @{"Capability.StorageIORMSupported" = "True"; "IormConfiguration.Enabled" = "[^(True)]"})

## Loop through each SIOC-ready datastore view (if any), then on the first run grab the "view" of the StorageResourceManager (this is needed to use the ConfigureDatastoreIORM_Task method to enable/disable SIOC) and finally, enable SIOC on the datastore
$arrSIOCableDatastores | ForEach-Object -Begin {$viewStorageRM = Get-View -Id "StorageResourceManager-StorageResourceManager"} {
$viewStorageRM.ConfigureDatastoreIORM_Task($_.MoRef, $spec)
}

Of course, if you want to disable SIOC on all of your datastores you need to only modify two pieces of code:

Line 7: Simply change $True to $False.
Line 10: Remove the caret (^) on the second part of the filter so it finds datastores that already have SIOC enabled.

Depending on what you are looking for, you may choose LucD's script over this one, or maybe you'll use both since his contains two functions and gives you more granular control on which datastores to enable/disable SIOC.

4 comments:

  1. Hi there,

    How do I set the "Limit - IOPs" for the VM "vm48" on all the virtual disks it has attached to it using PowerCLI?

    (Manually this is done via vCenter > Select "vm48 > Edit Settings > Resources > Disk)

    regards
    marc

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  2. Marc,

    Looks like you posted the same question over at LucD's blog and that he's already answered the question for you. If you somehow haven't seen it, go check it out at http://www.lucd.info/2010/10/20/automate-sioc/#comments. I can't think of anything to add to his response.

    - AC

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  3. In PowerCLI 5.1 you can do: Get-Datastore | Set-Datastore -StorageIOControlEnabled:$true -Confirm:$false -RunAsync

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