How to build a new virtual machine based on cluster with powercli?

When you create a new virtual machine on cluster in the user interface, you cannot select the host, it is decided by the cluster.

Now, I want to create a new vm on cluster by powerCli. I have not found any parameter to specify the cluster.

Only the "$vmhost" to specify the host.

Why are they so different?

Can someone help me understand it and how to create a new VM on cluster?

Thank you in advance!

Hello, bob1118-

While, as you said, it has non - Cluster parameter to the cmdlet New - VM, you _can_ effectively specify the cluster at new time of creation of VM via PowerCLI: you specify the list of resources within the desired cluster.  So a partial New - VM call would look like:

New-VM -Name myNewVM0 -ResourcePool (Get-Cluster myDestinationCluster | Get-ResourcePool -Name "Resources") -Template ...

Who uses the resource pool default "Resources" that exists in a cluster.  And, you could fill in the rest of the parameters relevant to the new virtual machine of your desires.  How do I?

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