Comments on: PowerCLI: Folder Name Mismatch

By: Harley Stagner

Harley Stagner — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:56:08 +0000

Thank you for the awesome script!

@LucD

Thank you for the regex LudD. However, I am having some problems with the matching when there is a non-word character (e.g. dash or underscore) in the VM Name. Any suggestions?

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:23:40 +0000

@Alex Thanks for the kind comments

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:49:51 +0000

You think of everything that’s annoyed me in the last couple of years. Perfect and thanks again. Glad I found this site.

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:50:46 +0000

@amusica Consistency is the key, thanks for the comment.

By: amusica

amusica — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:16:41 +0000

This is a pet peeve of mine for a while now, I am very anal about VMs like this I always end up changing the names of the directory name or even filename’s by either svmotioning or using vmkfstools to match GUI (presumably what I wanted!)

Thanks the for the article.

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:40:52 +0000

@LucD As always AMAZING ! Thanks Luc

By: LucD

LucD — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:51:03 +0000

A very “usable” article.
And for completeness sake, the regex version:

…
$VmPathName = $VM.Summary.Config.VmPathName
$Folder = ([regex]“\[\w+\] (\w+)/”).match($VmPathName).Groups[1].Value
$Path = ([regex]“(\[\w+\] \w+)/”).match($VmPathName).Groups[1].Value
…

Regex is your friend