Deploy 500 Edge Gateways in 500 Seconds

I am working on a few vCloud and NSX API scripts that collect data about Edge Gateways and needed to test how they work at scale. With this little PowerShell script leveraging NSX API I created 500 Edges in 500 seconds. And yes – I cheated as they were in undeployed state.

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$NumberOfEdges = 500
$Username = "admin"
$Password = "default"
$NSXManager="nsx01.fojta.com"


$auth = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($Username + ":" + $Password))
$head = @{"Authorization"="Basic $auth"}
$Request = "https://$NSXManager/api/4.0/edges"


$count=0
DO
{
$count++
$body = "
<edge>
	<datacenterMoid>datacenter-2</datacenterMoid>
	<name>$count</name>
	<description>TEST</description>
	<vnics>
		<vnic>
			<label>vNic_0</label>
			<name>vnic0</name>
			<addressGroups/>
			<mtu>1500</mtu>
			<type>internal</type>
			<isConnected>false</isConnected>
			<index>0</index>
			<enableProxyArp>false</enableProxyArp>
			<enableSendRedirects>true</enableSendRedirects>
		</vnic>
		<vnic>
			<label>vNic_1</label>
			<name>vnic1</name>
			<addressGroups/>
			<mtu>1500</mtu>
			<type>internal</type>
			<isConnected>false</isConnected>
			<index>1</index>
			<enableProxyArp>false</enableProxyArp>
			<enableSendRedirects>true</enableSendRedirects>
		</vnic>
		<vnic>
			<label>vNic_2</label>
			<name>vnic2</name>
			<addressGroups/>
			<mtu>1500</mtu>
			<type>internal</type>
			<isConnected>false</isConnected>
			<index>2</index>
			<enableProxyArp>false</enableProxyArp>
			<enableSendRedirects>true</enableSendRedirects>
		</vnic>
		<vnic>
			<label>vNic_3</label>
			<name>vnic3</name>
			<addressGroups/>
			<mtu>1500</mtu>
			<type>internal</type>
			<isConnected>false</isConnected>
			<index>3</index>
			<enableProxyArp>false</enableProxyArp>
			<enableSendRedirects>true</enableSendRedirects>
		</vnic>
		<vnic>
			<label>vNic_4</label>
			<name>vnic4</name>
			<addressGroups/>
			<mtu>1500</mtu>
			<type>internal</type>
			<isConnected>false</isConnected>
			<index>4</index>
			<enableProxyArp>false</enableProxyArp>
			<enableSendRedirects>true</enableSendRedirects>
		</vnic>
		<vnic>
			<label>vNic_5</label>
			<name>vnic5</name>
			<addressGroups/>
			<mtu>1500</mtu>
			<type>internal</type>
			<isConnected>false</isConnected>
			<index>5</index>
			<enableProxyArp>false</enableProxyArp>
			<enableSendRedirects>true</enableSendRedirects>
		</vnic>
		<vnic>
			<label>vNic_6</label>
			<name>vnic6</name>
			<addressGroups/>
			<mtu>1500</mtu>
			<type>internal</type>
			<isConnected>false</isConnected>
			<index>6</index>
			<enableProxyArp>false</enableProxyArp>
			<enableSendRedirects>true</enableSendRedirects>
		</vnic>
		<vnic>
			<label>vNic_7</label>
			<name>vnic7</name>
			<addressGroups/>
			<mtu>1500</mtu>
			<type>internal</type>
			<isConnected>false</isConnected>
			<index>7</index>
			<enableProxyArp>false</enableProxyArp>
			<enableSendRedirects>true</enableSendRedirects>
		</vnic>
		<vnic>
			<label>vNic_8</label>
			<name>vnic8</name>
			<addressGroups/>
			<mtu>1500</mtu>
			<type>internal</type>
			<isConnected>false</isConnected>
			<index>8</index>
			<enableProxyArp>false</enableProxyArp>
			<enableSendRedirects>true</enableSendRedirects>
		</vnic>
		<vnic>
			<label>vNic_9</label>
			<name>vnic9</name>
			<addressGroups/>
			<mtu>1500</mtu>
			<type>internal</type>
			<isConnected>false</isConnected>
			<index>9</index>
			<enableProxyArp>false</enableProxyArp>
			<enableSendRedirects>true</enableSendRedirects>
		</vnic>
	</vnics>
	<appliances>
		<deployAppliances>false</deployAppliances>
	</appliances>
</edge>"

$Response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Request -Method 'Post' -Headers $head -ContentType "application/xml" -Body $body
Write-Host -NoNewline "#";
} Until ($count -ge $NumberOfEdges)
Write-Host
Write-Host "I have created $count Edges"
get-date

Well and you probably do not want to delete them by hand either.

Get-Date
$Username = "admin"
$Password = "default"
$NSXManager="nsx01.fojta.com"

$auth = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($Username + ":" + $Password))
$head = @{"Authorization"="Basic $auth"}
$Request = "https://$NSXManager/api/3.0/edges"

$r = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri ($Request+"?startIndex=0&pageSize=1000") -Headers $head -ContentType "application/xml" -ErrorAction:Stop

foreach ($Edge in ([xml]$r.content).pagedEdgeList.edgePage.edgeSummary)
{
$edgeId = $Edge.objectId
If ($Edge.description -eq "TEST")
	{
	$count++
	$Response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri ($Request+"/"+$edgeId) -Method 'Delete' -Headers $head -ContentType "application/xml"
	Write-Host Deleting Edge $edgeId
	}
}
Write-Host
Write-Host "I have deleted $count Edges"
Get-Date

Note: You need at least PowerShell 3.0.