Disabling or Enabling SIOC for one or more vCenters using PowerCLI

The Get-SIOC function can be used with two parameter sets. First the VMHost parameter set will retrieve the SIOC settings on a specific host.

Get-SIOC (Get-VMHost esx41)

This will return the SIOC settings for that specific host. Your output will look something like this.



You can of course use the Get-SIOC function a pipeline as well.

Get-VMHost | Get-SIOC | ft -Autosize

This will give a nice tabular overview


With the Datastore parameter set you get the SIOC settings for a specific datastore

Get-SIOC -Datastore DS1

And again this can be used in a pipeline

Get-Datastore | Get-SIOC

To change your SIOC settings on a datastore you can do

Set-SIOC  -Datastore (Get-Datastore DS1) -Enabled:$true -Threshold 30

Or in a pipeline

Get-Datastore -Name "DS*" | Set-SIOC -Enabled:$true -Threshold 30

Notice that the Set-SIOC function doesn’t return anything !