topic Re: VM Snapshot in VMware PowerCLI Discussions

VM Snapshot

Vimal348 — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:23:37 GMT

Hello,

I have some commands to check the VMs that has the snapshot name:

$VMlist = get-vm
Get-Snapshot -VM $VMlist | where{$_.Description -eq 'Prior to install VMTools'}

But the output is displaying like this. Is there anyway I can see the VM names in the result?

LucD — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:30:16 GMT

You could use nested Where-clauses.

Get-VM | Where-Object{Get-SNapshot -VM $_ | Where-Object{$_.Description -eq 'Prior to install VMTools'}} | Select-Object -Property Name

Vimal348 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:10:57 GMT

Thank you.

Is there anyway I can list the Snapshot Date as well in the output ?

LucD — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:14:35 GMT

The returned Snapshot object contains a property Created, which you can add on the Select-Object cmdlet.

Vimal348 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:42:16 GMT

Thank you