Find VM by it's ID

[sysCamel]

I'm trying to find the name of a VM by it's id. I tried the following but it did return any results. Any thoughts?

Get-VM | Where { $_.Id -eq "VirtualMachine-vm-36780/3000" }

[halr9000]

Take off the /3000 part.

Also, don't use where-object, the get-vm cmdlet has an Id parameter.

Get-VM -Id VirtualMachine-vm-2277

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[bassarchist]

I understand it's generally bad practice to use the where-object when you have a specific value in mind, but if you aren't 100% on the vm id, you should try using the -match switch to use a regular expression.

For example:

Get-VM | Where { $_.Id -match "VirtualMachine-vm-36780.*" }

or something like that 😛