PowerShell Script for Distaster Recovery

Hello all --

I'm trying to create a DR script for restoring our ESX images using
Vizioncore's esxRanger product. I have the below script hardcoded in a BAT
file but was looking for a way to make the script more dymanic. Basically,
many of the command-line options could change depending on the server image
being restored. Items such as VLAN for network cards, LUN name on SAN,
source path of backup image, etc.

Initially, I was thinking that I'd like to put this in an XML file and have
a node by server with all the standard items that I could pull.

I know I could just leave the below in a BAT file and just do a
search/replace when things change, but what fun would that be?

Any help or insight would be appreciated.

"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
X:\ESX\20080223\VMECOM03\VMECOM03_1.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig
-registervm -destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK3;VMECOM03_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;VMECOM03_2-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;"
-networkname ethernet0,DRVLAN249;ethernet1,DRVLAN254; -temp VMECOM03
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
Y:\ESX\20080223\VMECOM07\VMECOM07_4.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig
-registervm -destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK3;VMECOM07-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;VMECOM07_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;"
-networkname ethernet0,DRVLAN249;ethernet1,DRVLAN500; -temp VMECOM07
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
Z:\ESX\20080223\VMECORP01\VMECORP01_4.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig
-registervm -destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK4;VMECORP01-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK4;VMECORP01_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK4;"
-networkname ethernet0,DRVLAN249;ethernet1,DRVLAN500; -restoreas VMECORP01
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
W:\ESX\20080223\VMECORP02\VMECORP02_4.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig
-registervm -destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK1;VMECORP02-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK1;VMECORP02_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK1;"
-networkname ethernet0,DRVLAN249;ethernet1,DRVLAN500; -temp VMECORP02
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
W:\ESX\20080223\VMECORP04\VMECORP04_4.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig
-registervm -destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK1;VMECORP04-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK1;VMECORP04_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK1;"
-networkname ethernet0,DRVLAN249;ethernet1,DRVLAN500; -temp VMECORP04
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
W:\ESX\20080309\VMIMSAPP01\VMIMSAPP01_2.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig
-registervm -destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK3;VMIMSAPP01-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;VMIMSAPP01_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;"
-networkname ethernet0,DRVLAN16;ethernet1,DRVLAN254; -temp VMIMSAPP01
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
W:\ESX\20080219\VMDMZAD01\VMADDMZ01_3.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig
-registervm -destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK3;VMADDMZ01-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;" -networkname
ethernet0,DRVLAN249; -temp VMDMZAD01
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
Z:\ESX\20080220\VMNAV01\VMNAV01_3.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig -registervm
-destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK3;VMNAV01-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;VMNAV01_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;"
-networkname ethernet0,DRVLAN16;ethernet1,DRVLAN254; -temp VMNAV01
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
Z:\ESX\20080220\VMNAV02\VMNAV02_3.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig -registervm
-temp VMNAV02 -destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK3;VMNAV02-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;VMNAV02_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;"
-networkname ethernet0,DRVLAN16;ethernet1,DRVLAN254;
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
W:\ESX\20080220\VMNAV04\VMNAV04_3.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig -registervm
-destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK3;VMNAV04-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;VMNAV04_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;"
-networkname ethernet0,DRVLAN16;ethernet1,DRVLAN254; -temp VMNAV04
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
W:\ESX\20080220\VMNAV05\VMNAV05_3.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig -registervm
-destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK1;VMNAV05-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK1;VMNAV05_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK1;"
-networkname ethernet0,DRVLAN16;ethernet1,DRVLAN254; -temp VMNAV05
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
W:\ESX\20080310\VMNAV06\VMNAV06_2.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig -registervm
-destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK1;VMNAV06-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK1;VMNAV06_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK1;"
-networkname ethernet0,DRVLAN16;ethernet1,DRVLAN254; -temp VMNAV06
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
Z:\ESX\20080222\VMNAV07\VMNAV07_4.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig -registervm
-destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK2;VMNAV07-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK2;VMNAV07_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK2;"
-networkname ethernet0,DRVLAN16;ethernet1,DRVLAN254; -temp VMNAV07
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
W:\ESX\20080310\VMNAV08\VMNAV08_2.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig -registervm
-destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK1;VMNAV08-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK1;VMNAV08_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK1;"
-networkname ethernet0,DRVLAN16;ethernet1,DRVLAN254; -temp VMNAV08
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
W:\ESX\20080305\VMDNSDMZ01\VMDNSDMZ01_1.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig
-registervm -destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK1;VMDNSDMZ01_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK1;" -networkname
ethernet0,DRVLAN249;ethernet1,DRVLAN500; -temp VMDNSDMZ01
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
W:\ESX\20080219\VMDMZAD02\VMADDMZ02_3.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig
-registervm -destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK4;VMADDMZ02-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK4;" -networkname
ethernet0,DRVLAN249; -temp VMDNSDMZ02
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
W:\ESX\20080219\VMWEB01\VMWEB01_3.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig -registervm
-destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK3;VMWEB01-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK3;" -networkname
ethernet0,DRVLAN249;ethernet1,DRVLAN500; -temp VMWEB01
"C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger
Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe -restore -local
W:\ESX\20080305\VMDNSDMZ01\VMDNSDMZ01_1.tvzc.info -forcepoweroff -restoreconfig
-registervm -destserver dresx01.mke.fiserv.net -destvmfs "VM's
Configuration,SRVVASTDISK1;VMDNSDMZ01_1-flat.vmdk,SRVVASTDISK1;" -networkname
ethernet0,DRVLAN249;ethernet1,DRVLAN500; -temp VMDNSDMZ01

dm3281 wrote: #1, you need to grab the VI toolkit at http://vmware.com/go/powershell. Has
little to do with this particular scenario (mostly because you're using a third
party tool), but you will love it I'm sure.
Powershell is pretty handy with XML, but most people don't like to use it as a
datasource simply because the editing is moderately annoying. If you've got a
schema in mind, post that and we can give you a concrete example. Otherwise,
I'd stick to spreadsheets or flat text files for now.

For the record, XML in Posh is this easy (example file is an NMAP scan):

PS> [xml]$data = get-content $xmlfile
PS> $data

xml xml-stylesheet #comment nmaprun
--- -------------- -------- -------
version="1.0" href="nmap.xsl" typ... Nmap 4.21ALPHA4 sc... nmaprun

PS> $data.nmaprun

verbose : verbose
scanner : nmap
runstats : runstats
taskprogress : taskprogress
scaninfo : scaninfo
startstr : Thu Oct 25 14:12:13 2007
args : C:\Program Files\Nmap\nmap.exe -oX file.xml 192.168.0.4
host : host
debugging : debugging
start : 1193335933
version : 4.21ALPHA4
xmloutputversion : 1.01
No fun at all.

Send me your email address in email or twitter (http://twitter.com/halr9000) and
I'll send you a script privately (that I'm not allowed to publish widely). this
script reads stuff from a flat file in a manner similar to what you'd need to do.


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