Get-file provides an account of all virtual machines in the folder structure.
Hi all
Tried a few searches in the community, but impossible to find exactly what I was looking for. We have a configuration folder structure in vCenter. We have some companies that we bought over time and we set up a folder, separate them with a top-level folder and folders nested for different types of virtual machine below, something like:
CompanyX
-Mail servers
-Web servers
-DB servers
For the purposes of internal billing, asked me to get a count of all virtual machines for each company. I can get the count for virtual machines directly in the "CompanyX" folder, but it does not include virtual machines in subfolders. This is the script I used so far:
Write-Output "VM enumeration for CompanyX VMware environment Total: $((Get-dossier 'CompanyX' |)). "(Get-VM) .count) | out-file "D:\ScriptResults\CompanyX.txt" - append
As I said, that works very well for the virtual machines in the head in the parent folder, but it does not go down to the next layer. Is there a way to get folder do that?
I am a novice PowerShell/PowerCLI, so forgive me if I'm missing something obvious.
Thank you
Bob
Hi Bob,
I don't know if it was different in previous versions, but in the latest PowerCLI version 4.1 U1 if you
Get-file "CompanyX" | Get - VM
It will retrieve the VM in the top folder and all subfolders. You can easily check this with:
Get-file "CompanyX" | Get - VM | Select-Object - Property Name, folder
If you only want the virtual machine in the top folder you can use:
Get-file "CompanyX" - NoRecursion. Get - VM
The following script will get the VM number for all companies and write the result to a .csv file.
$ExcludeFolders = "Discovered virtual machine","other folder to exclude" Get-Folder vm | Get-Folder -NoRecursion | ` Where-Object {$ExcludeFolders -notcontains $_.Name } | ` ForEach-Object { $Folder = $_ $Report = "" | Select-Object -Property Company,"Number of VM's" $Report.Company = $Folder.Name $Report."Number of VM's" = ($Folder | Get-VM | Measure-Object).Count $Report } | Export-Csv -Path CompanyVMsCount.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
If there is high records of the page you want to exclude from the list you can add them to the $ExcludeFolders variable in the first line of the script. The second line of the script gets all the 'vm' top of the folders page. The third line filter unwanted records. A few lines create the output objects. And the last line written objects in a .csv file.
I added the Measure-Object cmdlet for the ($Folder |) Get - VM | Measure - Object). Account because otherwise you will get an error if the number is 0 or 1.
Best regards, Robert
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