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I am experimenting with the Protection Domain Cmdlets and trying to use New-NTNXProtectionDomain. I am running into some issues and I hope there is someone around to point me in the right direction.



New-NTNXProtectionDomain prints "protectionDomainName cannot be null" when I run it without any parameters, but the parameter protectionDomainName doesn't seem to exist.



New-NTNXProtectionDomainprotectionDomainName cannot be null

The help doesn't show how to use the Cmdlet:



Get-Help New-NTNXProtectionDomain -fullNAMENew-NTNXProtectionDomainSYNOPSISAdd a Protection Domain.SYNTAXDESCRIPTIONPARAMETERSThis cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216). INPUTSOUTPUTSRELATED LINKS

Intellisense gives some more info, but nothing that resembles "protectionDomainName":



Hey Koen,



I just ran some tests in the lab here, and it seems that the cmdlet uses the -Input flag for protectionDomainName. It also doesn't accept the PD Name without the flag, which it should. Here's what I ran in my lab:



connect-nutanixcluster [CVM_IP]



And then



$n = Get-NutanixClusterNew-NTNXProtectionDomain -Input testDomain -NutanixClusters $n



or:



New-NTNXProtectionDomain -Input testDomain2 -Servers [CVM_IP]



Now we can see the PDs created:



Get-NTNXProtectionDomain -name testDomain



name : testDomain



Get-NTNXProtectionDomain -name testDomain2



name : testDomain2



I'm going to file a bug on this, the flag should be more intuative (having a -name flag would be much better), but in the mean time -input should work.
@cbrown Thanks for your thorough reply.
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