Automation for - perennially-reserved=true

My friend Vinod Balakrishnan  & I worked on automation for perennially-reserved please see the details below.

A.) Create file with name list and save all "lun" id into it.  Create list based on clusters and luns specific to those clusters.

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B.) CHECK IF All LUNS ARE PRESENT. rUN THIS ON SPECIFIC CLUSTERS AND LUN LIST

cat list | while read line
do
if ! esxcli storage core path list | grep "LUN: $line" >/dev/null
then
echo "Rahim LUN $line IS MISSING"
fi
done

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C.) RUN THIS COMMAND TO SET RESV ON LISTED LUNS IN FILE list on the respective Clusters/ESXI hosts.

cat list | while read line
do
naa=`esxcli storage core path list | egrep -B5 "LUN: $line"  | grep "Device:"  | head -1`
echo $naa
esxcli storage core device setconfig -d "$naa" --perennially-reserved=true
done

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D.) Check if resv has been set on specified luns or not

TO CHECK IF PERENNIAL RESERVATION HAS BEEN SET ON WHICH NAA

esxcli storage core device list | egrep -B18 "Is Perennially Reserved: true" | grep " Device:"  | awk '{print $NF}' | while read line
do
 lunid=`esxcli storage core path list | egrep -A6 "$line" | grep -i lun | head -1`
 echo "$line $lunid"
done


cat list | while read line
do
if ! esxcli storage core path list | grep "LUN: $line" >/dev/null
then
echo "Rahim LUN $line IS MISSING"
fi
done

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to overcome this issue best way to run only 2 commands get the VMware tools installed.

1) To Mount the VMware tools ISO to VM with with VMware powercli

a) open power CLI

b) run the command 

connect-viserver VCENTER_NAME

c) run the below command

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Example: Mount-Tool -VM Rahim_VM1

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For 64bit system: 

D:\Setup64.exe /S /V"/qn

For 32 bit system;

D:\Setup.exe /S /V"/qn

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Put you thought in comments.

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After long time writing post.

Toady found very good automation which can help you start & stop firewall with some small commands.

its very useful for creating script / automation for windows customization 

To check the status of firewall
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To turn of firewall
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To Turn On firewall
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