Setting a schedule to vRanger Replication jobs

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#1

Hello guys,
I am looking to create some kind of automation to create vRanger replication jobs for our VMs. I am able to actually create the jobs but only as a ‘Run on Demand’ type of job. I have dug around the internet looking for some way to set this as a scheduled job but have yet to find anyone doing the same. Based on the help output, I have attempted the following with no success.

Adding the schedule during the replication job’s creation

Add-ReplicationJobTemplate -JobName "$JobName" -JobDescription "$Description" -JobEntity $VMInfo -TargetHost $HostInfo -ReplicateName $ReplicaVMName -Type Differential -TargetNetworks $ReplicaNetwork.Name -PrimaryDatastore $ReplicaStorage.name -TargetDatastores $ReplicaStorage.name -Flags $RepFlags -JobSchedule $Schedule

Updating the replication job with an a schedule

get-jobtemplate -Type Replication | where { $_.inventoryNodeName -eq "$VM" }  | Update-ReplicationJobTemplate -JobSchedule $Schedule

Error posted:

Update-ReplicationJobTemplate : {0} type is not supported.  Valid types are VA-HotAdd, VA-Network, COS
Parameter name: vRanger.API.PowerShell.vAPIService.TransportType
At line:1 char:70
+ Get-JobTemplate | where { $_.inventoryNodeName -eq "$VM" }  | Update-Repl ...
+                                                                      ~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (vRanger.API.Pow...ervice.Schedule:Schedule) [Update-ReplicationJobTemp
   late], ArgumentException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : 0,vRanger.API.PowerShell.JobShell.UpdateReplicationJobTemplate

The $schedule variable above is simply taken from an existing replication job with a schedule already in place. Does anyone know of a way to update/add schedules to vRanger using powershell?

#2

Found a workaround.

Since the schedule field had specific references to the newly created job template, I had simply left that ID reference blank. On the job creation command, it had auto-populated the schedule.id field for me.

Final commands:

$tempSchedule=(Get-JobTemplate | where {$_.inventoryNodeName -like "$TempServer"}).schedule
$tempSchedule.ID=""
$tempSchedule.NextRecurrence=$tempSchedule.NextRecurrence.addminutes($RandonMin)
Add-ReplicationJobTemplate -JobName "$JobName" -JobDescription "$Description" -JobEntity $VMInfo -TargetHost $HostInfo -ReplicateName $ReplicaVMName -Type Differential -TargetNetworks $ReplicaNetwork.Name -PrimaryDatastore $ReplicaStorage.name -TargetDatastores $ReplicaStorage.name -Flags $RepFlags -JobSchedule $Schedule