PowerCli SRM ListAssociatedVms throwing The Operation is not support on this Object

[jake1973]

I am trying to run this simple script

$srmApi = $srm.ExtensionData

$protectionGroups = $srmApi.Protection.ListProtectionGroups()

$protectionGroups | % {

    $protectionGroup = $_   

    $protectionGroupInfo = $protectionGroup.GetInfo()

    $protectedVms = $protectionGroup.ListAssociatedVms()    ##Fails

    $protectedVms | % { $_.Vm.UpdateViewData() }

    $protectedVms | %{

        $output = "" | select VmName, PgName

        $output.VmName = $_.Vm.Name

        $output.PgName = $protectionGroupInfo.Name

        $output

    }

}

However, I get the error -

Exception calling "ListAssociatedVms" with "0" argument(s): "The operation is not supported on the object."

+ $protectionGroups[0].ListAssociatedVms <<<< ()

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

The ListAssociatedVms method does exist as piping $protectionGroups[0] | gm shows it as a valid method.

Any ideas?

We are using vSphere Server 5.0.0 with PowerCli 5.5

Thanks in advance,
Jake

[admin]

When you list the protected VMs you should see that each of them has a "Vm" property. This property has its own "Name" property which contains the name of the virtual machine.

The following would output the names of the protected VMs:

$ProtectionGroup.ListProtectedVMs() | %{ $_.Vm.Name }

[ekos]

Thanks Ben, I have tried your suggestion and it seems that having a custom SRM setup (shared recovery site) like I have doesn't work well with the SRM powercli cmdlets .For example I can't do a connect-srmserver without specifying a srm server, which is a prerequisite for listing VMs with the SRM api. Otherwise you get no results.

[ikiris]

I echo this statement. In another thread I mentioned the same thing, that the cmdlets can't handle a shared recovery site since it assumes a connection to the primary SRM servers and won't let you specify the connection to a second one.