Place a VSAN Witness host into maintenance through PowerCLI

The PowerCLI documentation is actually really good, but sometimes the documentation is just silly aswell. I was trying to make a vSAN Witness host go into Maintenance Mode through PowerCLI and had trouble doing it.

The Set-VMHost command has some parameters you can set for VSAN Data Migration and stuff like that, so i thought maybe it wanted to do something with vSAN even though the GUI is the normal Maintenance Mode dialog box.

When I tried using the Set-VMHost command i got the error A specified parameter was not correct:

Follow me on Github :)

Remember to follow me on Github, since i post a lot of my scripts there. I'm mostly doing PowerShell stuff, so keep an eye out.

I made a repository for VMware for my scripts for VMware - take a look here: https://github.com/NPetersenDK/VMware-Scripts

My Homelab

My homelab is based on 4 hosts and one fileserver (running Windows, for now).

My VMware Installation

I try to be a front runner for running the newest version of everything. So as of now i'm on 6.7U3 on everything. I have 5 hosts in my installation, which one of them is in France (i'm living in Denmark) - i have a 500/500 Mbit connection to it.

My First Post - on a newer installation :)

Welcome to my new blog, i have migrated away from my Hoompas.dk domain which was based of a WordPress server that i quite frankly forgot to patch all the time.

All it's content is now gone and we're starting on a fresh. I'm looking forward to blogging a bit about VMware, and everything else i find nerdy enough to go on here.