Automation

Hi,

Is there any way to retrieve the cluster name from the view object of VM and esx host. For example

$vm = get-vm -Name VMname

$vmview =  $vm | get-view

Now I want to retrieve the cluster name of the VM using $vmview. Same for host as well.

Please help.

This should return the clustername

Get-Cluster -VM $vm | Select -ExpandProperty Name

Hi LucD,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes I already know the way you have shown below. But I want to retrieve it using the view properties of the vm/esx object for some reason. Is it possible?

Sure, everything is possible with PowerShell/PowerCLI.

Something like this should do the trick

$vm = Get-VM MyVM 
$rp = Get-View $vm.ExtensionData.ResourcePool 
while($rp.GetType().Name -ne "ClusterComputeResource"){
  $rp = Get-View $rp.Parent
}
$rp.Name

You can get the clustername from a vmview or hostview object with:

$ClusterName = (Get-View (Get-View $VmView.Runtime.Host).Parent).Name
$ClusterName = (Get-View $VMHostView.Parent).Name

Perfect, thanks LucD.