PowerCLI for 3 VMs at once.

I'm working on a great script, and I can't wrap my head around it.  I want to get the names of some virtual machines, but I want to be able to get the VMS in groups of 3, it could be 2 or 4, I just arbitrarily chose 3.  My ultimate goal is to export the virtual machines, but I want to their section, so I'm not under a great export at the same time.

So if I have 12 VMs, I want to get the first 3, export them, and then the next 3, export them and so on.

I realize that it can not always be 12, or a number which divides by 3, but I see that if I use Select-Object and select - top 5 of something that has only 3, it seems to work without any errors, so I'm not too concerned in making sure that the number is divisible by a number.

I tried something like this:

#$MyCount was already populated with five names VM

$CountComplete = $null

$CountComplete = @)

While (($Mycount | sort) - don't ($CountComplete | sort)) {}

$MyCount |  Select - 3 first | Get-Unique

$CountComplete += $Mycount

}

#$CountComplete += $Mycount

I know the above does not work, but I wonder if this is the right way?

Try something like this

I placed a few numbers in the $test table, but it could be VirtualMachine objects, the logic remains the same.

$test = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

$start = 0

$step = 3

While ($start - the $test. Count) {}

Write-Output "handling $($test [$start...). ($start_+_$step_-_1)]) »

$start += $step

}

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