Comments on: PowerCLI: Local stored VM’s One-Liner

By: Neal

Neal — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:22:46 +0000

What would the syntax look like to return results that did not contain ‘local’ in the name? Just the opposite of what you did above?

Thanks

Neal Edwards

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:09:04 +0000

@Simon Price Thanks Simon, looks like there is a slight issue with this one as the object returned after the get-view does not contain the correct name, I have however modified it to create an easier funtion than the one I was using. Good job !

By: Simon Price

Simon Price — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:44:10 +0000

Sorry .. the full solution:
get-datastore|get-view | ? {$_.summary.multiplehostaccess -eq $false} | select @{n=”DS: Name”;e={$_.name}},@{n=”DS: Shared”;e={$_.summary.multiplehostaccess}} | % {get-vm -datastore $_.”ds: name”|get-harddisk|select @{n=”Datastore”;e={$_.filename.split(“[]“)[1]}},@{n=”Filename”;e={$_.filename.split(“[]“)[2]}},@{n=”CapacityGB”;e={“{0:n2}” -f ($_.capacitykb/1mb)}}}

By: Simon Price

Simon Price — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:10:52 +0000

A way of searching for shared datstores is as follows:
get-datastore|get-view | ? {$_.summary.multiplehostaccess -eq $false} | select @{n=”DS: Name”;e={$_.name}},@{n=”DS: Shared”;e={$_.summary.multiplehostaccess}}
This will display any datastore that is only accessible by a single host, regardless of the friendly name.
Cheers,
Simon P