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New-VBRIndividualComputerContainer

Short Description

Creates a scope of computers for a protection group.

Applies to

Product Edition: Community, Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus

Syntax

New-VBRIndividualComputerContainer -CustomCredentials <VBRIndividualComputerCustomCredentials[]> [<CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

This cmdlet creates the VBRIndividualComputerContainer object. This object contains a scope of computers. Use this object to create a protection group with the Add-VBRProtectionGroup cmdlet.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

Required

Position

Accept
Pipeline
Input

Accept
Wildcard
Characters

CustomCredentials

Specifies computers and credentials for authenticating with them.

Accepts VBRIndividualComputerCustomCredentials[] type.

True

Named

True (ByValue
ByProperty
Name)

False

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information about common parameters, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=113216.

Return Type

VBRIndividualComputerContainer

Example 1

This example shows how to create a scope of computers for a protection group.

You will need to perform the followings steps:

  1. Run New-VBRIndividualComputerCustomCredentials to specify credentials for authenticating with computers for which you want to create a protection scope. Use the ForEach statement to apply the same credentials to multiple computers. Save the result to the $computers variable.
  2. Run New-VBRIndividualComputerContainer with the $computers variable.

$computers = @("172.19.51.53", "sup-v8931") | ForEach { New-VBRIndividualComputerCustomCredentials -HostName $_ -Credentials "support\jsmith" }

New-VBRIndividualComputerContainer -CustomCredentials $computers

Example 2

This example shows how to create a protection group with a scope of computers.

You will need to perform the following steps:

  1. Create a scope of computers:
  • Run New-VBRIndividualComputerCustomCredentials to specify credentials for authenticating with computers. Use the ForEach statement to apply the same credentials to multiple computers. Save the result to the $computers variable.
  • Run New-VBRIndividualComputerContainer with the $computers variable. Save the result to the $compscope variable.
  1. Create a protection group. To do this, run Add-VBRProtectionGroup with the $compscope variable.

$computers = @("172.19.51.53", "sup-v8931") | ForEach { New-VBRIndividualComputerCustomCredentials -HostName $_ -Credentials "support\jsmith" }

$compscope = New-VBRIndividualComputerContainer -CustomCredentials $computers

Add-VBRProtectionGroup -Name "Computers" -Container $compscope

Related Commands

New-VBRIndividualComputerCustomCredentials

Add-VBRProtectionGroup