I am using the PowerCLI version 12 and have a VM which currently has no network adapter.
There is the Cmdlet Get-CINetworkAdapter but that returns null (because there is no adapter) And there is Set-CINetworkAdapter but again without a CINetworkAdapter to pass in this doesn't work.
Is there a New-CINetworkAdapter I am missing somewhere?
This is currently the code I am using to do this:
$NIC = New-Object -TypeName 'VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.OvfRASD' $NIC.AddressOnParent = '0' $NIC.AutomaticAllocation = New-Object -TypeName 'VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.CimBoolean' $NIC.AutomaticAllocation.Value = $true $NICConnectionString = New-Object -TypeName 'VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.CimString' $connectionAttributes = New-Object 'VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.XmlAttributeCollection' $connectionAttributes.Add('ns5','ipAddressingMode','http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5','POOL') $connectionAttributes.Add('ns5','primaryNetworkConnection','http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5','true') $NICConnectionString.AnyAttr = $connectionAttributes $NICConnectionString.Value = 'None' $NIC.Connection = $NICConnectionString $NIC.Description = 'VMXNET3 ethernet adapter on ''none''' $NIC.ElementName = 'Network adapter 0' $NIC.InstanceID = '0' $NIC.ResourceSubType = 'VMXNET3' $NICResourceType = New-Object -TypeName 'VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.CimRASDResource' $NICResourceType.Value = '10' $NIC.ResourceType = $NICResourceType $vm = Get-CIVM -Name '[VM Name]' $vmVirtualHardwareSection = $vm.ExtensionData.GetVirtualHardwareSection() $vmNetworkCards = $vmVirtualHardwareSection.GetNetworkCards() $vmNetworkCards.Item = $NIC $vmNetworkCards.UpdateServerData()