PowerShell guy, I'm NOT

I hope that some of you masters PowerCLI can help.  Here's what I want to do.

I have 3 instances of vCenter, and we would like to build a script that will prompt the user to a virtual machine name.  From there on, I would like to ask 3 instances of vCenter for the customer.  Once found a pop up will say "VMname was found in vcentername.domainname.com vCenter instance.»

This is the challenge for a lot of valuable points.  If this can be done in a wrapper of nice GUI as Primal forms which would be ideal, but I know that this may be asking too much.

Thanks in advance

Enviornmet:

1 vCenter4

2 vCenter2.5.0U5

Yes, he has thought of that.

You can use the break statement.

Like this

$vcList = "vc1","vc2","vc3"

$vmName = Read-Host "Enter the name of the VM:"

$vcList | %{
     $dummy = Connect-VIServer -Server $_
     if(Get-VM -Name $vmName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue){
          Write-Host "VM" $vmName "found on" $defaultViServer
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     }
     Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$false
}

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