Producing a list of virtual machines not in a folder
As the subject says, we back up our virtual machines via vRanger connection based on this record, they are in inventory / models and virtual computers. To ensure the backup all VM I would generate a weekly report that lists the virtual machines that are not in a folder. I am able to produce lists of virtual machines with the code below, but that doesn't really help me. I tried to use the name instead of "nom_de_dossier" data center with no luck. Is it even possible to do?
Get-VM -Location (Get-Folder 'foldername') | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture c:\VMInfo.csv
Have you already tried that?
Get-VM -Location (Get-Folder vm) -NoRecursion
It uses the 'vm' hidden folder that contains all of the virtual machines at the root of the datacenter (s)
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