Hi,
You cannot directly assign a string value to an object; instead, you should add some code to search for an object of the given type with such name.
So, in your case, you can replace
dvPortgroup = "test (dvSwitch)";
with
dvPortgroup = null;
var alldvpg = Server.findAllForType("VC:DistributedVirtualPortgroup");
for each (var pg in alldvpg) { if (pg.name == "test (dvSwitch)") { dvPortgroup = pg; break; }
}
if (!dvPortgroup) {
System.error("Can't find the given portgroup");
}
What this code does is to iterate over all available distributes virtual portgroups and to check if the name of some portgroup matches the desired name. If a match is found, it assigns the found object to your dvPortgroup attribute; if no match is found, it prints an error message.
In production, you may want to implement a more sophisticated search logic, but the main idea is the same - you cannot assign strings to objects, you should search for objects matching some criteria.