Change the Notes to custom for guests attributes field
People,
I need a way via Powershell (I know I could probably do via SQL, but I would avoid editing the VC DB directly) to go through a server cluster and be able to edit any guest VM that has a custom attribute defined in the Notes field. Our problem is that we use Platespin for all of our P2V and he puts this long text string after each conversion in the Notes field:
"Virtual Machine created by PowerConvert 7.0.0.5157 08/08/2008 23:47:46.
We want to shorten the chain to a something simple, since it appears on reports and causes problems with the formatting, something like "P2V 08/08/2008 23:47:46.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you.
You can use the - operator replace like this
$text = "Virtual Machine created by PowerConvert 7.0.0.5157 on 8/8/2008 11:47:46 PM" $pattern = "Virtual Machine created by PowerConvert 7.0.0.5157" $newtext = $text -replace $pattern, "P2V" $newtext
If the model is not constant, then we use a regular expression for the matching process.
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