Add New Harddisk from a txt file

[online11]

Hi there,

I have list of VMs under "cluster1" and there are specific VMs on a txt file and want to add secondary 10GB thin disks to those VMs.

New disks will be created in datastore: DATASTORE1

ClusterName: Cluster1

Can you help me on this. Thanks.

Get-Content C:\VMs.txt | %{
  $Cluster = Get-VM -Name $_ | Get-Cluster | Select -ExpandProperty Name
  $dsname = "DATASTORE1"
    }

  New-HardDisk -VM $_ -CapacityGB 10 -DiskType Flat -Datastore $dsname -StorageFormat Thin
}

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Try like this

Get-Content C:\VMs.txt | %{

    Get-VM -Name $_ |

    New-HardDisk -CapacityGB 10 -DiskType Flat -Datastore "DATASTORE1" -StorageFormat Thin 

}

If the TXT file contains all the VM names, there is no need to get the cluster.

[online11]

Thanks master 🙂