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• Virtual MACHINE created on date export csv - get - vm testvm works but says testvm get-vmcreationdate is not found.

  Hello

  I entered the following two functions in my shell powercli

  Two functions I have installed

  function {Get-VMEvents < #. . Logbook Get events for an entity or query all events. . Description This function returns the events for the entities. It is very similar to cmdlet Get-vievent. Please note that get-VMEvent can handle 1 vm at a time. You can't send picture of vms in this version of the script. . Example of Get-VMEvents 0All-types "VmCreatedEvent", "VmDeployedEvent", "VmClonedEvent". He will receive all events of type "VmCreatedEvent", "VmDeployedEvent" 'VmClonedEvent '. . Example of Get-VMEvents-name 'vm1' - type 'VmCreatedEvent '. Will be out of the events of creation of virtual machine: "vm1. It's faster than the vms piping is of result of Get - vm. There is no need to use get - vm to move names to get-vmevents. Yet, it is OK when you do, it will be just a little more slow < span class = "wp-smiley wp-emoji wp-emoji-blink of eye" title = ';') > ;) </span > . Example of Get-VMEvents-name 'vm1' - category 'WARNING '. Will be out all events for vm: 'vm1. It is is faster than the names of piping of cmdlet Get - vm. Category will get-vmevent to search only the defined category events. . Example of Get - vm "vm1 | Get-VMEvents-types "VmCreatedEvent", "VmMacAssignedEvent". Shows events for vm1 which will be regarding the events of creation,. and events when when / what mac address is assigned . VM parameter This setting is a unique string that represents the name of the vm. He expects this single vm name There in the virtual Center. Now in the first version of the script, it will only load a case where there is 1 instance of vm selected name. In the future it will load multiple as Well. . Types of parameters If none is specified, it will return all the events. If specified will return Only the events with selected types. For example: "VmCreatedEvent." "VmDeployedEvent", "VmMacAssignedEvent" "VmClonedEvent", etc... . Category of a parameter Possible categories are: warning, info, error. Please use this setting if you you want to filter events. . Setting all the If you need to set this parameter, so command queries all events Center Virtual Server virtual machines. . Notes NAME: VMEvents

  AUTHOR: Grzegorz Kulikowski

  LASTEDIT: 09/11/2012

  DOES NOT? #powercli @ irc.freenode.net

  . Link

  http://psvmware.WordPress.com

  # >

  (param

  [Parameter (ValueFromPipeline = $true)]

  [ValidatenotNullOrEmpty()]

  $VM,

  [String []] $variétés.

  [string] $category,

  [switch] $All

  )

  $si = get-view ServiceInstance

  $em is get-view $si. Content.EventManager

  $EventFilterSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.EventFilterSpec

  $EventFilterSpec.Type = $types

  {if ($Category)}

  $EventFilterSpec.Category = $category

  }

  If {($VM)

  $EventFilterSpec.Entity = new-Object VMware.Vim.EventFilterSpecByEntity

  switch ($VM) {}

  {$_-is [VMware.Vim.VirtualMachine]} {$VMmoref = $vm.moref}

  {$_-is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.VirtualMachineImpl]} {$VMmoref = $vm. ExtensionData.moref}

  default {$vmmoref = (get - view - ViewType virtualmachine-filter @{'name' = $VM}) .moref}

  }

  $EventFilterSpec.Entity.Entity = $vmmoref

  $em. QueryEvents ($EventFilterSpec)

  }

  If {($All)

  $em. QueryEvents ($EventFilterSpec)

  }

  }

  function get-vmcreationdate {}

  < #.

  . Logbook

  Gets if possible virtual machine created.

  . Description

  This function will return the object with information about the creation time, method, of months,.

  creator of particular virtual machine.

  VMname: SomeVM12

  Createduserid: 10/08/2012 11:48:18

  CreatedMonth: August

  CreationMethod: cloned

  Creator: office\greg

  This function displays NoEvent property in case when your VC do not

  more information on these specific events, or your vm events no longer have

  entries for the subject being created. If your VC data base has more tension date it is no longer possible

  you find this event.

  . Example of

  Get-VMCreationdate - VMnames 'my_vm1', 'My_otherVM '.

  This will return items that contain date information of creating virtual machines with names

  myvm1 and myvm2

  . Example of

  Get-VM-location 'Cluster1 | Get-VMCreationdate

  This will return items that contain information created for virtual machines that are

  Located in Cluster1

  . Example of

  Notice-EEG - viewtype virtualmachine - SearchRoot (get-datacenter "mydc") user.user | Get-VMCreationDate

  This will return items that contain information created for virtual machines that are

  located in the data center "mydc" container If you use this feature in an existing loop where you

  having the cmdlet get-view virtual machines, you can pass them via pipes or as a parameter VMnames.

  . Example of

  $report = get-cluster "cl-01' | Get-VMCreationdate

  $report | Export-csv c:\myreport.csv

  Stores all reported creationtimes object in the array $report variable and export the report to a csv file.

  You can also filter the report before you write in the csv file using select

  $report | Where-Object {$_.} {CreatedMonth - eq "October"} | Select VMName, CreatedMonth

  So that you see only the vms that have been created in October.

  . Example of

  Get-vmcreationdate - VMnames "my_vm1", testvm55

  WARNING: my_vm1 is not found, typo?

  VMname: testvm55

  Createduserid: 05/10/2012 14:24:03

  CreatedMonth: October

  CreationMethod: NewVM

  Creator: home\greg

  In case when you receive virtual machine that is not appropriate in the infrastructure of yor, a warning is displayed.

  You can always store the full text of the report in the $report variable, but it includes all the information on

  dates of creation of the missing vm. A warning always only for your information there is

  probably a typing mistake in the name of the virtual machine.

  . Parameter VMnames

  This parameter must contain objects of virtual machine or strings representing vm

  names. It is possible to supply this function wiith VM objects coming from get - vm or

  get - view.

  . Notes

  NAME: Get-VMCreationdate

  AUTHOR: Grzegorz Kulikowski

  LASTEDIT: 27/11/2012

  DOES NOT? #powercli @ irc.freenode.net

  . Link

  http://psvmware.WordPress.com

  # >

  (param

  [Parameter (ValueFromPipeline = $true, mandatory = $true)]

  [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]

  [Object []] $VMnames

  )

  {in process

  {foreach ($vm to $VMnames)

  $ReportedVM = "" | Select VMname Createduserid, CreatedMonth, CreationMethod, creator

  If ($CollectedEvent = $vm |) Get - VMEvents - types "VmBeingDeployedEvent", "VmRegisteredEvent", "VmClonedEvent", "VmBeingCreatedEvent" - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)

  {

  If ($CollectedEvent.GetType ().) IsArray) {$CollectedEvent = $CollectedEvent |?} {{$_-is [vmware.vim.VmRegisteredEvent]}}

  $CollectedEventType = $CollectedEvent.gettype () .name

  $CollectedEventMonth = "{0: MMMM}" $CollectedEvent.CreatedTime f

  $CollectedEventCreationDate = $CollectedEvent.CreatedTime

  $CollectedEventCreator = $CollectedEvent.Username

  Switch ($CollectedEventType)

  {

  "VmClonedEvent" {$CreationMethod = "Cloned"}

  "VmRegisteredEvent" {$CreationMethod = "RegisteredFromVMX"}

  "VmBeingDeployedEvent" {$CreationMethod = "VmFromTemplate"}

  "VmBeingCreatedEvent" {$CreationMethod = "NewVM"}

  default value {$CreationMethod = 'Error'}

  }

  $ReportedVM.VMname = $CollectedEvent.vm.Name

  $ReportedVM.CreatedTime = $CollectedEventCreationDate

  $ReportedVM.CreatedMonth = $CollectedEventMonth

  $ReportedVM.CreationMethod = $CreationMethod

  $ReportedVM.Creator = $CollectedEventCreator

  } else {}

  If ($?) {

  If ($vm - is [VMware.Vim.VirtualMachine]) {$ReportedVM.VMname = $vm.name} else {$ReportedVM.VMname = $vm.} ToString()}

  $ReportedVM.CreatedTime = 'NoEvent.

  $ReportedVM.CreatedMonth = 'NoEvent.

  $ReportedVM.CreationMethod = 'NoEvent.

  $ReportedVM.Creator = 'NoEvent.

  } else {}

  $ReportedVM = $null

  Write-Warning "$VM is not found, typo?

  }

  }

  $ReportedVM

  }

  }

  }

  Now, if I use the first command

  Get - vm testvm

  I get a response of

  Name PowerState Num CPU MemoryGB

  ----                 ---------- -------- --------

  Receiving TestVM 4 4,000

  But if I do

  Get-vmcreationdate testvm

  he responds with

  WARNING: testvm is not found. misspelling?

  I can't understand why he says this?

  What will be the final objective to query the server vcenter set and export a CSV of the creation of each day VM - is their an easier way to do it?

  I was intending to use

  get - vm | Get-VMCreationDate | Export-Csv-path "d:\\reports\vmcreationinventory.csv ".

  But at the present time, each unique virtual machine is indicating "is not found."

  Attached is an example with a virtual machine called gbvls

  Although you may be better communicate with the author of these functions, from what I can tell, it seems to indicate that none of the specified events were found for these virtual machines.

  You can check if there are targeted with the cmdlet Get-VIEvent ordinary events.

  If you can see events, there could be a problem with the Get-VMEvents function.

  $vmName = 'testvm '.

  $tgtEvents = "VmBeingDeployedEvent", "VmRegisteredEvent", "VmClonedEvent", "VmBeingCreatedEvent".

  $vm = get-VM-name $vmName

  Get-VIEvent-body $vm - MaxSamples ([int]: MaxValue) |

  Where {$tgtEvents - contains $_.} GetType(). Name}

• Import of csv - Cluster Get - Export csv

  Hello community vmware,

  I'm looking for a script simple ps import a list of vm (based on a csv file that I feed into it).

  I would then result to a csv file of the 2 column (1 column with the name of the virtual machine) and the other with the corresponding cluster name, in that it is.

  Thanks in advance for the help.

  Try something like this

  It assumes that your input CSV file looks like this

  Name

  VM1

  VM2

  $report = import-Csv - UseCulture names.cvs | %{

  Get-VM-name $_. Name |

  Select Name,@{N='Cluster'; E = {Get-Cluster - VM $_______ |} Select name - ExpandProperty}}

  }

  $report | Export Csv report.csv - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

• UseCulture - Import/Export-Csv - switch. What is it?

  Salvation;

  I've seen a lot of references for the parameter - UseCulture importing content or exporters results of scripts to/from csv files. I tried in vain to find a real description or purpose of this function. Can anyone help direct me as to where I can find it or clarify on this setting?

  Thank you. Ron

  It forces the cmdlet Export-Csv to use the separator used in your locale to use.

  By default there is a comma, but in other regions, it may for example be a semicolon.

  See also Export CSV with Culture-specific separator

• Need help with an Export-CSV and ForEach loop

  Hi guys, I'm total NOOB in CLI so please forgive the stupid question.

  I need your expert advice for the very large environment and will award points.

  I have a working script that alerts to our logout ESXi hosts, maintenance and NotResponidng mode

  His job well, but need to send a mail to all three of our VCenters

  Current script only works for a VC at a time. How do I ForEach and always the hose of the same body CSV and HTML

  It would be nice to have an HTML and CSV output that looks like this (assuming that there are currently disconnected etc.)

  I have a set of credentials, that work on all 3 of my VC

  VC1

  Host1 disconnected

  Host2 NotResponding

  VC2

  Host3 disconnected

  Host4 NotResponding

  VC3

  No disconnected/maintemance/notresponding hosts for VC3

  Here is my current code, etc. of the hidden passwords >

  # Clear old sessions
  Disconnect VIServer VC01-confirm: $false

  # VC01 VC check for disconnection and Maintenance mode and does not
  SE connect-VIServer-Server VC01 - FakeUSer username-password FakePassword

  $Report = get-VMhost-State disconnected, maintenance, NotResponding | SELECT name, connectionstate

  # scan info to be html and give him a date stamp

  $ReportHtml = $report | ConvertTo-Html | Out-string

  # Write CSV file and give it a character of data

  $filePath = "C:\PS\Output".
  $filename = "VC01disconnectedHosts".
  $CurrentDate = get-Date
  $CurrentDate = $CurrentDate.ToString ('MM-dd-yyyy_hh-mm-ss')

  $Report | Export-Csv "C:\PS\Output\VC_$Currentdate.csv".

  # Send the info by Mail

  Send-MailMessage-to [email protected] - subject VMwareMorningcheckVC01$ CurrentDate '
  SmtpServer - mail.sanlam.co.za - from [email protected] '
  -BodyAsHtml-body $reportHtml - accessories 'C:\PS\Output\VC_$CurrentDate.csv '.

  Thank you in advance for help.

  You could use a ForEach loop through all vCenters and combine the results in a $1 report.

  Something like that

  $vCenters = "VC01","VC02","VC03"
  
  # Clear old sessionsDisconnect-VIServer $vCenters -Confirm:$false
  
  $report = @()# Check VC VC01 for Disconnects and Maintenance mode and Not Respondingforeach($vc in $vCenters){  Connect-VIServer -Server $vc -User FakeUSer -Password FakePassword
  
    $Report += (Get-VMhost -State Disconnected,Maintenance,NotResponding | Select @{N="VC";E={$vc}},name ,connectionstate)  Disconnect-VIServer $vc -Confirm:$false}
  
  # parse info to be html ,and give it date stamp
  
  $ReportHtml = ($report | ConvertTo-Html | out-String)
  
  # Write out CSV file and give it a Data Stamp
  
  $CurrentDate = Get-Date -Format 'MM-dd-yyyy_hh-mm-ss'$filename = "C:\PS\Output\DisconnectedHosts-$($CurrentDate).csv"
  
  $Report | Export-Csv -Path $filename -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  
  # Send info with Mail
  
  Send-MailMessage -To [email protected] -Subject VMwareMorningcheck$CurrentDate `-SmtpServer mail.sanlam.co.za -From [email protected] `-BodyAsHtml -Body $reportHtml -Attachments "C:\PS\Output\DisconnectedHosts-$($CurrentDate).csv"
  

  I added the property vCenter for each line in the report

• Export-Csv not generating expected results

  
  I'm trying to generate a report from the script of grouping of NETWORK cards, but given the following code I will have to create Excel object and define its elements?

  The Export-Csv option does not work as I expect in this case. Thank you for your help.  The following code:

  ($VMHost in Get-VMHost){

  Foreach ($vSwitch in ($VMHost | Get-VirtualSwitch )){

  $NicTeaming = Get NicTeamingPolicy -VirtualSwitch $vSwitch

  $obj = new-object psobject

  $obj | Add Member -membertype NoteProperty -name home -value $VMHost

  $obj | Add Member -membertype NoteProperty -name vSwitch -value $vSwitch

  $obj | Add Member -membertype NoteProperty -name NumPorts -value $vSwitch. NumPorts

  $obj | Add Member -membertype NoteProperty -name NumPortsAvailable -value $vSwitch. NumPortsAvailable

  $PG = $vSwitch | Get-VirtualPortGroup

  If ($PG. Count-gt 1){

  $obj | Add Member - membertype NoteProperty -nom échanges -valeur ([string] ::join()«, », ($PG)))

  }

  Else {}

  $obj | Add-Member - membertype NoteProperty-trade name-value $PG

  }

  $obj | Add-Member - membertype NoteProperty - name BeaconInterval-$NicTeaming.BeaconInterval value

  $obj | Add-Member - membertype NoteProperty - name LoadBalancingPolicy-$NicTeaming.LoadBalancingPolicy value

  $obj | Add-Member - membertype NoteProperty - name NetworkFailoverDetectionPolicy-$NicTeaming.NetworkFailoverDetectionPolicy value

  $obj | Add-Member - membertype NoteProperty - name NotifySwitches-$NicTeaming.NotifySwitches value

  $obj | Add-Member - membertype NoteProperty - name FailbackEnabled-$NicTeaming.FailbackEnabled value

  
  If ($NicTeaming.ActiveNic - gt 1) {}

  $obj | Add-Member - membertype NoteProperty-ActiveNic name-value ([string]: join (",", ($NicTeaming.ActiveNic)))

  }

  Else {}

  $obj | Add-Member - membertype NoteProperty - name ActiveNic-$NicTeaming.ActiveNic value

  }

  If ($NicTeaming.StandbyNic - gt 1) {}

  $obj | Add-Member - membertype NoteProperty-StandbyNic name-value ([string]: join (",", ($NicTeaming.StandbyNic)))

  }

  Else {}

  $obj | Add-Member - membertype NoteProperty - name StandbyNic-$NicTeaming.StandbyNic value

  }

  If ($NicTeaming.UnusedNic - gt 1) {}

  $obj | Add-Member - membertype NoteProperty-UnusedNic name-value ([string]: join (",", ($NicTeaming.UnusedNic)))

  }

  Else {}

  $obj | Add-Member - membertype NoteProperty - name UnusedNic-$NicTeaming.UnusedNic value

  }

  $obj | Add-Member - membertype NoteProperty - name CheckBeacon-$NicTeaming.CheckBeacon value

  $obj

  $Report += $obj

  }

  $Report = $Report | Sort-Object VMName

  IF ($Report - don't ' ")

  {$Report |} {Export-Csv NIC - Teaming.csv}

  }

  You declare $report in a table?

  On the first line

  $report = @)

• Export-csv column order

  Is there a way to control or to format the output to a CSV of powercli?  It seems that columns are always just in random order and I would be able to dictate that.

  The problem is not with the Export-Csv cmdlet, but with the way in which the properties are stored in an object by PowerShell.

  In PowerShell v2, you can explicitly specify the order before the Export-CSV

  $array | Select prop1, prop1, prop2 | Export Csv C:\file.csv - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  In PowerShell v3, you now have the casting [ordered].

  See Export-Xlsx, the suite and the data ordered, who throw also works with Export-Csv

• Include the attribute custom report (Export-Csv)

  I am writing a script to report on disk / the use of the capacity for each virtual machine in the environment.

  I try to include a column in the generated report (CSV), which includes the CustomField/CustomAttributes for each virtual computer as well as the news of disk capacity.  The report runs fine, but after you export the report to CSV (Export-Csv using) the newly created column just to the custom attribute field displays the following parameters for each line/entry:

  VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Util.ReadOnlyDictionary'2 (System.String, System.String)

  When I use out-file it works, but formatting is very obscured...

  Here's the function/script that I use, I 'bolded in Red' the part of the script which I believe is the origin of the problem:

  Function Get-VMGuestDiskUsage {}
  (param
  [parameter (valuefrompipeline = $true required = $true, HelpMessage = "enter an entity vm")]
  ([VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.VirtualMachineImpl] $VM)
  {in process
  $ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue".
  foreach ($disk in $VM. Guest.Disks) {}
  $objDisk = new-Object System.Object
  $objDisk | Add-Member - MemberType NoteProperty-VM name-value $VM. Name
  $objDisk | Add-Member - MemberType NoteProperty-name of Volume-value $disk. Path
  $objDisk | Add-Member - MemberType NoteProperty-CapacityMB name-value ([math]: round ($disk.) Capacity / 1 MB))
  $objDisk | Add-Member - MemberType NoteProperty-FreeSpaceMB name-value ([math]: round ($disk.) FreeSpace / 1 MB))
  $objDisk | Add-Member - MemberType NoteProperty - percent use of name-value ('{0:p2}' f (($disk.))) Capacity - $disk. FreeSpace) / $disk. Capacity))
  $objDisk | Add-Member - MemberType NoteProperty-name CustomFields-value ($VM. CustomFields)
  $objDisk
  }
  }
  }

  Get - VM * | Get-VMGuestDiskUsage | Export-Csv - NoTypeInformation c:\scripts\output\test.csv

  Any help is greatly appreciated!  Also please let me know if I did a poor job explaining the scenario and what I'm after here.

  Hello, jSun311-

  Because the property "CustomFields" itself is an object, and you try to get out of the strings to the CSV format, you must manage the object.  You can replace the line in question by something like:

  $objDisk | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name CustomFields -Value (($VM.CustomFields | %{"$($_.Key) = $($_.Value)"}) -join ",")
  

  Which would result in the output for the column that might look like:

  dTestAttrib0 = someValue,dTestAttrib1 = AnotherValue
  

  In other words, there is a list separated by characters of the key/value pairs in the CustomFields property for the virtual machine.

  In addition, if you are interested, you might be able to clean up your code a bit by using the '-property ' New-Object parameter.  As:

  ...foreach ($disk in $VM.Guest.disks) {    New-Object PSObject -Property @{        VM = $VM.Name        Volume = $disk.Path        CapacityMB = [math]::Round($disk.Capacity / 1MB)        FreeSpaceMB = [math]::Round($disk.FreeSpace/1MB)        "Usage%" = "{0:p2}" -f (($disk.Capacity - $disk.FreeSpace) / $disk.Capacity)        CustomFields = ($VM.CustomFields | %{"$($_.Key) = $($_.Value)"}) -join ","    } ## end new-object} ## end foreach...
  

  In this way, you shouldn't bother with calls Add-Member and repetitive cases here.  Enjoy.

• Export-Csv several files

  It is asked that we list all powered on virtual machines in a cluster to backup purposes.  I am able to get this information into a CSV file.  However, the backup engineer want a single file for each proxy server that uses this file to save these list of virtual machines.

  A simple way to do this is the same as this:

  # Author: Rhys Campbell
  # 2009-09-22
  # Split csv files
  # Path to the csv file. Must contain a sequential unique whole ID column
  $csvFile = "$Env:USERPROFILE\bigcsvFile.csv";
  # Slot in how many files?
  $split = 10;
  # Get the content of the csv file
  $content = import-Csv $csvFile.
  # If we start with Id = 1 in the csv file
  $start = 1;
  $end = 0;
  documents calc # per file
  $records_per_file = [ent] [Math]: ceiling ($content.) Count / $split);
  for ($i = 1; $i - $split; $i ++)
  {
  # Set the value of end of selection of records
  $end += $records_per_file;
  # Need to cast to int or we get an alphabetical comparison when we want a digital
  $content | Where-Object {[int] $_.} ID - ge $start - and [int] $_. ID - the $end} | Export-Csv-Path "$Env:USERPROFILE\file$ i.csv '-NoTypeInformation;
  # Update the starting value for record selection
  $start = $end + 1;
  }

  Credit source: http://www.youdidwhatwithtsql.com/splitting-csv-files-with-powershell/374

  I think that the next PowerCLI script will do the job.

  param($Cluster,
        $NumberOfProxyServers = 3,
        $FileName = 'proxy')
  
  $VMs = Get-Cluster $Cluster |
         Get-VM |
         Sort-Object -Property Name
  
  $NumberOfVMs =$VMs.Count
  $NumberOfVMsPerProxyServer = $NumberOfVMs/$NumberOfProxyServers
  
  for($i = 0; $i -lt $NumberOfProxyServers; $i++)
  {
    $Range = (($i*$NumberOfVMsPerProxyServer)..(($i+1)*$NumberOfVMsPerProxyServer-1))
    $VMs |
    Select-Object -Property Name |
    Select-Object -Index $Range |
    Export-Csv -Path "$FileName$i.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  }
  

  Save the script as a .ps1 file, for example, New - VMProxyFile.ps1 and run it as:

  . \New-VMProxyFile-cluster "YourClustername".

  Proxy file numbers starting by 0. I hope this isn't a problem.

• result of foreach not getting attached to the export-csv

  Hello people,

  I am trying to learn powercli. I use under commads to get information for VMs. looks like the results not add in the csv file. CSV file shows the result of the latest VM in import-csv file.

  Q1 - can you please help identify what is bad in the commands below?

  Q2 - How can I use a single export-csv command to get an output of lines both (get - vm and get-cluster)?

  $vmname = import-csv "C:\vmname.csv".
  {foreach ($_.name in $vmname)}
  Get - vm $_.name | Select 'Name', 'Host ' | export-csv - UseCulture - NoTypeInformation C:\vmname-host-info.csv
  Get-cluster - vm $_.name | Select 'name ' | export-csv - UseCulture - NoTypeInformation C:\vmcluster-info.csv}

  Thank you!

  You're crushed the CSV file with each iteration of the loop.

  Why do you want to produce 2 CSV files? Is it not easier to keep all the info in 1 file?

  Her you could do something like that

  $vmname = import-csv "C:\vmname.csv".
  & {{foreach ($_.name in $vmname)}}
  Get - vm $_.name | Select 'Name","Host",@{N="Cluster '; E = {Get-Cluster - VM $_______ |} Select name - ExpandProperty}}

  }} | Export-csv - UseCulture - NoTypeInformation C:\vm-info.csv

  But the best is to use the track more PowerShell

  $vmname = import-csv "C:\vmname.csv".

  Get-VM-name $vmname |

  Select Name,Host,@{N="Cluster; E = {Get-Cluster - VM $_______ |} Select name - ExpandProperty}} |

  Export-csv - UseCulture - NoTypeInformation C:\vm-info.csv

• Strange output from Get - VM... A cruise ship Export-CSV

  If I type this in PowerCLI I get expected results

  Get-Datacenter -name "name of my datacenter" | Get-VM | Where { ($_ | Get-CDDrive).ISOPath } | FT -auto Name, @{Label="OS"; Expression = { $_.Guest.OSFullName }}, @{Label="ISO file"; Expression = { ($_ | Get-CDDrive).ISOPath }}

  But if I try to export to a CSV file

  Get-Datacenter -name "name of my datacenter" | Get-VM | Where { ($_ | Get-CDDrive).ISOPath } | FT -auto Name, @{Label="OS"; Expression = { $_.Guest.OSFullName }}, @{Label="ISO file"; Expression = { ($_ | Get-CDDrive).ISOPath }} | Export-CSV virtual_machines_mounted_ISO.csv

  I get output like this:

  #TYPE Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatStartData
  "ClassId2e4f51ef21dd47e99d3c952918aff9cd","pageHeaderEntry","pageFooterEntry","autosizeInfo","shapeInfo","groupingEntry"
  "033ecb2bc07a4d43b5ef94ed5a35d280",,,"Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.AutosizeInfo","Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.TableHeaderInfo",
  "9e210fe47d09416682b841769c78b8a3",,,,,
  "27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c",,,,,
  "27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c",,,,,
  "27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c",,,,,
  "27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c",,,,,
  "27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c",,,,,
  "27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c",,,,,
  "27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c",,,,,
  "27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c",,,,,
  

  What Miss me?

  Try to replace the 'FT-auto' by 'Select-Object.

• Export-csv system.string [] question

  I have a powercli script I wrote to collect virtual switch information and portgroup.

  Most work however the information active and reserve nic shows in the console

  For example ActiveNic: {vmnic4}

  However, in the CSV file it shows up as @{ActiveNic = System.String []} without the information real vmnic

  Please let me know how to get the active and standby vmnic info in the CSV here is the script

  SE connect-VIServer vcenter

  $report = @)

  $ESXhosts = Get-VMHost

  {foreach ($esxhost to $ESXhosts)

  $Vswitches = $esxhost | Get-Virtualswitch

  {foreach ($vswitch to $vswitches)

  $Portgroups = $vswitch | Get-VirtualPortGroup

  {foreach ($portgroup to $Portgroups)

  $nicteam = Get-NicTeamingPolicy $portgroup

  $row = "" | Select Cluster, Vswitch, Portgroup, Vlan, ActiveNic, Esxhost, Standbynic

  $row. Cluster = $esxhost. Parent

  $row. ESxhost = $esxhost.name

  $row. Vswitch = $Vswitch.Name

  $row.portgroup = $portgroup.name

  $row. VLAN is $portgroup. VLANID

  $row. Activenic = $nicteam.activenic

  $row. Standbynic = $nicteam. StandbyNic

  {$report += $row}

  }

  }

  $report | Export-Csv c:\psresults\host_portgroups_clustr_standby.csv

  The Export-Csv cmdlet can manage properties that are arrays or complex objects correctly.

  A way around this is to convert the table into a single string.

  Something like that

  Connect-VIServer vcenter $report = @()
  $ESXhosts = Get-VMHost foreach ($esxhost in $ESXhosts) {
    $Vswitches = $esxhost | Get-Virtualswitch  foreach($vswitch in $vswitches){
      $Portgroups = $vswitch | Get-VirtualPortGroup    foreach ($portgroup in $Portgroups){
        $nicteam = Get-NicTeamingPolicy $portgroup      $row = "" | select Cluster, Esxhost, Vswitch, Portgroup,Vlan,ActiveNic,Standbynic      $row.Cluster = $esxhost.Parent      $row.ESxhost = $esxhost.name     $row.Vswitch = $Vswitch.Name      $row.portgroup = $portgroup.name      $row.Vlan = $portgroup.Vlanid      $row.Activenic= [string]::Join(',',$nicteam.activenic)
        $row.Standbynic=[string]::Join(',',$nicteam.StandbyNic)
        $report += $row}
    }
  }
  
  $report | Export-Csv c:\psresults\host_portgroups_clustr_standby.csv
  

• Export-csv formatting

  Sorry for the newbie question (and thanks for any help) but I have a reporting need to enumerate WWPN of hosts per cluster.

  With the below it will display csv as:

  Name of host Hba WWPN

  Server1 vmhba1 xxxxxx

  Server1 vmhba2 xxxxxx

  Server2 vmhba1 xxxxxx

  Server2 vmhba2 xxxxxx

  Is it possible to get to the exit of the csv like that? :

  Hostname Hba1, Hba2 WWPN WWPN

  Server1 vmhba1 xxxxx xxxxxx vmhba2

  Server2 vmhba1 xxxxx xxxxxx vmhba2

  or:

  Hostname WWPN Hba1, Hba2-WWPN

  Server1, vmhba2 vmhba1-xxxx-xxxxx

  Server2, vmhba2 vmhba1-xxxx-xxxxx

  I just need to be able to enumerate each server with its Hba and WWPN on its own line

  I need to have it in this format in the turnover of another Department

  {foreach ($vmh to $VMHs)

  foreach ($hba in $vmh. ExtensionData.config.storagedevice.hostbusadapter) {}

  If ($hba. PortWorldWideName) {}

  $objWwpn = "" | Select Name of the host, Hba, WWPN

  $objWwpn.HostName = $vmh. Name

  $objWwpn.Hba = $hba. Device

  $objWwpn.WWPN = '{0}': x f $hba. PortWorldWideName

  $objHba += $ObjWwpn

  }

  }

  }

  $objHba | Export-csv .\"$ClusterName"_WWNs.csv E -NoTypeInformation

  Try something like this

  Import-Csv .\test.csv | Group-Object HostName | %{
      $row = "" | Select Hostname,Hba1,WWPN1,Hba2,WWPN2
      $row.Hostname = $_.Values[0]
      $row.Hba1 = $_.Group[0].Hba
      $row.WWPN1 = $_.Group[0].WWPN
      $row.Hba2 = $_.Group[1].Hba
      $row.WWPN2 = $_.Group[0].WWPN
      $row} | Export-Csv .\test2.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

• Helps Export-CSV

  $vms = Get-VM -rental "somehost"

  foreach

  ($vm in $vms){

  $vmobj_hds = $vm. Hard drives

  foreach ($vmhd in $vmobj_hds){

  Write-Host $vm. Name, $vmhd. File name}

  }

  I need to change that to Write-Host to Export-CSV with the following titles, the name of VM, HardDisk2 1 hard disk, etc. 1 hard disk should be the. HarDisk.Filename info. I've always had problems with the select - export-csv cmdlets and property. Any help would be appreciated.

  Hello BrianGordon84-

  Try something like:

  ## get the VMs, sort descending by number of harddisksGet-VM | Sort @{e={($_.ExtensionData.Config.Hardware.Device | ?{$_ -is [VMware.Vim.VirtualDisk]}).count}} -Descending | %{    $vm = $_    ## make an object in which to put the info    $oInfo = New-Object -Type PSObject -Property @{VMname = $vm.Name}    ## for each harddisk, add a property to the info object with the harddisk name and filename    Get-HardDisk -VM $vm | %{        $oInfo | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name $_.Name -Value $_.Filename    } ## end foreach-object    ## return the info object    $oInfo} | Export-Csv -NoTypeInfo C:\temp\vmDiskInfo.csv
  

  Sorting after the Get - VM is there to ensure that the first exported object has most of the hard drives, which is what makes the exported CSV have the right number of columns.  The headers in the CSV file are made based on the first object out.

  The code could be optimized a bit by using Get - view, but your question was about the Export-Csv.

  How do I?

• issue Export-csv

  Hello!

  I am trying to export-csv the following code, each obvious answer seems to fail or display the data too, can anyone help?

  {foreach ($ClusterName Get-cluster)

  foreach ($VMHost in Get-VMHost-location $ClusterName | where {$_.}) {Name - match "rxh *"} | {Name of sorting)

  {{write-host $VMHost.Name, $ClusterName, $VMHost.CPUTotalMhz, $VMHost.MemoryTotalMB}}

  Thank you

  Steve

  Try it like this

  $report = @()
  foreach ($ClusterName in Get-Cluster) {
       foreach ($VMHost in (Get-VMHost -Location $ClusterName | where {$_.Name -match "rxh*"} | Sort Name)){
            $row = "" | Select Name,ClusterName,CPUTotalMhz,MemoryTotalMB
            $row.Name = $VMHost.Name
            $row.ClusterName = $ClusterName.Name
            $row.CPUTotalMhz = $VMHost.CPUTotalMhz
            $row.MemoryTotalMB = $VMHost.MemoryTotalMB
            $report += $row
       }
  }
  $report | Export-Csv "C:\report.csv" -NoTypeInformation
  

  You must remember that Write-Host sends the data to the console, while the Export-Csv cmdlet picks up what is in the pipeline (when used like this)

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