Get Template UUID & Absolute Folder Path.

[Daithi_N]

Hi,

Within our environment, we may have duplicated Templates within Different Locations / Datacenters within vCenter:

I am looking at a way of getting the absolute folder path along with UUID for each Template

Example:

UUID                                        Folder

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

6b500805b55f                      DC-Test/vm/templates/

6b500805b54                     DC-Test1/vm/templates/

$vCenter_Servers = ${env:vcenter}
$user = ${env:user}
$pswd = ${env:password}
$Template = ${env:template}
Connect-VIServer -Server $vCenter_Servers -User $user -Password $pswd
Get-Template $Template | %{(Get-View $_.Id).config}

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Try something like this.

Get-Template |

Select Name,

    @{N='UUID';E={$_.ExtensionData.Config.Uuid}},

    @{N='Path';E={

        $templatePath = @()

        $parent = Get-View -Id $_.ExtensionData.Parent

        do{

            $templatePath += $parent.Name

            $parent = Get-View -Id $parent.Parent -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

        } until($parent.Parent -eq $null)

        [array]::Reverse($templatePath)

        $templatePath -join '/'

    }}

[Daithi_N]

Hi LucD

Thank you for such a quick reply and helping me out with the Script.

Thanks.

[patilp08]

i am trying to run this cmdlet but getting an error. Are you setting any other variables and parameters besides the lines you have ?

[wetnose88]

What you see if you run the following

$global:defaultviserver

just want to confirm if you are connect to vCenter.