Find virtual machines on specific clusters

There are a number of clusters were trying to move away from virtual machine. I'd like to understand what VM (and their associated properties as $_.) Folder) that can be found on these groups. The following code takes a long time to run (he gets the number of old hosts rather quickly).

to connect-VIServer $VMServer
$VM2Move = @)

#Exclude virtual machines and hosts on the new groups
$AllOldHosts = get-vmhost-location $Location | where {$_ .parent-NotLike "newcluster01" - or $_ .parent-NotLike 'newcluster02'}
$OldHostTally = $AllOldHosts.count
Write-Host "is the number of hosts on old clusters: $OldHostTally.
#The of the $AllHosts that are desired properties are manufacturer, model, name, State, StorageInfo, Version
#The properties you want from virtual machines are host, name, PowerState, ProvisionedSpaceGB, record, Version

{Foreach ($OldHost to $AllOldHosts)
$VM = get-VMHost $OldHost | get - vm | Select name, folder, host, Powerstate, Version
$VM2Move += $VM
}

$VM2Move | Export Csv OldVM.csv - NoTypeInformation

When I get to the end of the pipeline 'select name, folder, host, Powerstate, Version', I get the following text:

Write-Host: error internal Win32 'not enough memory is available for procedures.
"SS this command" 0x8 occurred when writing memory console at the heart of the current output buffer
position of SLEEP. Contact the Microsoft Support Services.
To the chariot of C:\Documents and Settings\userID\My Documents\scripts\HostTally.ps1:54
: 11
+ Write-Host < < < < "$VM2Move".
+ CategoryInfo: WriteError: (:)) [Write-Host], HostException)
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId: WriteConsole, Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Write
HostCommand

I am still awating the output by using the statement select (still takes way too long).

How it should be written? Any improvements would be appreciated. It seems the only link between cluster and VM is through the host. The virtual computer object has a property of the host and the VM-Host object has a Parent pointing to the cluster property.

Hello, JohnnyScript-

Welcome to the communities.

There are a few things to make it who can help speed up your code.

Since you already have objects VMHost Get-VMHost calling on line 4 of your code, you should not use Get-VMHost still once for each unique host (or any host)
There are a few variables that you need not, as the $VM2Move to the concatenation of data table and the $VM table of the selected objects
While we are cleaning things, we must not use Get-VMHost at all, really - Get-Cluster will suffice

So, with a bit of a re-write, you could generate data of OldVM.csv with something like:

## get all clusters not named the two given names&{Get-Cluster | ?{"newcluster01","newcluster02" -notcontains $_.Name} | %{    ## this cluster object, to be used later    $oThisCluster = $_    ## get the VMs in this cluster, and select a bit of info about each    Get-VM -Location $oThisCluster | Select Name,Folder,Host,PowerState,Version,@{n="ClusterName"; e={$oThisCluster.Name}}}} | Export-Csv c:\temp\OldVM.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture

It ends by using Get-cluster and a Get - VM times once a cluster (vs using Get-VMHost once by the host and Get - VM host twice). You should notice a fair speed increase. If you really need the speed data, you could do even better with secret of most favorite people, Get-View. We leave it for another year.

How does he for you?

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