Activation of failure tolerance Logging on VMkernel ports via command line

Hello

I am putting together an automated script to configure network settings for a large deployment of ESXi 4.1 (among others), but I hit a road block, define the parameters of vmkernal on one of the vSwitches.

I use 13 July 2010 download the vsphere cli version and following (+ - facilitated assistance) reference guides

http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vSphere4/R40/vsp_40_vcli.PDF P35

http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vSphere4/R41/vsp4_41_vcli_inst_script.PDF P117

I've been reviewing documentation 4.0 and 4.1 and both list the commands of vicfg-vmknic to create and edit a port vmkernel I integrated and tested with success, including how to activate the checkbox vMotion, but there is not a command to enable logging of tolerance to the outages.

What is a hidden command? I tried various permutations of enable-fault_tolerance_logging; Enable-ft etc. and have had no luck.

Is there another way to generate scripts this setting?

I am aware that onyx might be able to help, but it is still in beta (as far as I know) and I prefer not to go down this road for a production environment.

I doubt I'm the first to ask this question, but have been unable to find a satisfactory answer with a whole bunch of search strings in the vmware forums or google. If there is another discussion group which is more suited to this request, I'd appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction.

Richard Kuczma

VCP 3.5 and 4.0

I tested FT enable and disable host ESXi 4.1 connection before committing the change.

Can you provide me with the exact syntax that you use? Errors while trying to run the script?

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