Powercli : unable to add the members to collections

[Sreejesh_D]

Hello everyone,

I face a problem in following test script.

I expect the following result as the output of it.

VM Name                                         vCPU                                               Memory                                                 

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

Server1                                                1                                                                                                   

Server2                                                                                                          8

unfortunately, i am receiving the following output. Can someone help me to understand the mistake in the code?

VM Name                                                                                               vCPU                                                                                                

-------                                                                                               ----                                                                                                

Server1                                                                                               1                                                                                                   

Server2   

$obj_collection = @()


    $report_data = New-Object System.Object
    $report_data | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "VM Name" -Value "Server1"
    $report_data | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "vCPU" -Value "1"

    $obj_collection += $report_data

  $report_data = New-Object System.Object
    $report_data | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "VM Name" -Value "Server2"
    $report_data | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Memory" -Value "8"

  $obj_collection += $report_data
  $obj_collection

[LucD]

The collection takes the first object you add to it as the layout for the complete collection.

So you have to use all the properties, but can assign them a $null value.

Something like this

$obj_collection = @()

    $report_data = New-Object System.Object

    $report_data | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "VM Name" -Value "Server1"

    $report_data | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "vCPU" -Value "1"

    $report_data | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Memory" -Value $null

    $obj_collection += $report_data

    $report_data = New-Object System.Object

    $report_data | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "VM Name" -Value "Server2"

    $report_data | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "vCPU" -Value $null

    $report_data | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Memory" -Value "8"

    $obj_collection += $report_data

$obj_collection

[juriskrumins]

If you know exactly properties you're interested in:

     $obj_collection | ft -Property "VM Name",vCPU,Memory