Hopefully this should be easy, but it has me completely baffled. I'm putting together a script that will ask a number of questions and deploy a VM based on the answers. One of my sections of code is an "other" section that instead of choosing from a menu, the person running the script can manually enter things such as Cluster name, Resource Pool name and Datastore. I prompt for Cluster name, then run a Get-Cluster command to output a list of Resource Pools, prompt the user to pick a Pool, then run a command to list the datastores available on the hosts within a cluster. This is where it gets weird. If I run these commands manually in a Powershell/CLI window, they work fine, but when I run it in a .ps1 script, the datastore list outputs blank lines in place of where the list should be. Here's a very stripped down portion of this code:
$ClusterInput = Read-Host "Enter the VMware cluster name"
Connect-VIServer vcenter | Out-Null
Get-Cluster $ClusterInput | Get-ResourcePool | Select @{N="Resource Pool";E={$_.Name}} | Where-Object {$_.'Resource Pool' -ne 'Resources'}
$ResourcePool = Read-Host "Enter the name of a Resource Pool listed above to place the virtual machine"
$myCluster = Get-Cluster -Name $ClusterInput | Get-ResourcePool $ResourcePool
Write-Host "Retrieving a list of Datatores in cluster $ClusterInput..."
Get-Cluster $ClusterInput | Get-VMHost | Get-Datastore | Sort Name
The last line, 07, is what shows the blank lines. Line 03 outputs just fine, and is basically the same thing.
I can assign a variable for line 07 and then run through a loop to output it, but the format isn't as nice as what the one liner should be able to do on its own
Any ideas?
Thanks!