Automation

This must be a esy one, but I don't get the solution.

I would get all VM-Names with at least one snapshot. And because the get-snapshot cmdlet doesn't work well in 4.0u1 I don't want to use it.

I get all snapshots with:

 $rootsnap = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine |%{$_.Snapshot.RootSnapshotList} 

Now I would get the VM-Name. I tried it with:

  
foreach ($snap in $rootsnap){
 $vmid = $snap.vm.type + "-" + $snap.vm.value
 get-vm -id $vmid
}

this doesnt works, because sometimes the $snap is empty.

You can solve the guests with no snapshots with a where cmdlet.

filter Get-SnapshotFast{
	$_.Name
	if($_.ChildSnapshotList){
		$_.ChildSnapShotList | Get-SnapshotFast
	}
}

Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | where {$_.Snapshot.RootSnapshotList} | %{
	Write-Host "VM name" $_.Name
	Write-Host "Snapshots`n" ($_.Snapshot.RootSnapshotList | Get-SnapshotFast)
}

Note that I use a recursive function to run through the snapshot tree.

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Thank you, this helps me a lot to understand. Now my final version is:

$report = @()

filter Get-Desc{
 $_.Name
 if($_.ChildSnapshotList){
  $_.ChildSnapShotList | Get-Desc
 }
}

filter Get-Date{
 $_.CreateTime
 if($_.ChildSnapshotList){
  $_.ChildSnapShotList | Get-Date
 }
}

Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | where {$_.Snapshot.RootSnapshotList} | %{
 $row = "" | select VMname, Desc, Created
 $row.VMname = $_.Name
 $row.Desc = $_.Snapshot.RootSnapshotList | Get-Desc
 $row.Created = $_.Snapshot.RootSnapshotList | Get-Date
 $report += $row
}

$report | ft -auto | out-string

Do I've to make two filter function or can I combine this?

You can combine this into one recursive function.

The new Get-SnapshotFast filter will return all VirtualMachineSnapshotTree objects for a specific VM.

When you use a 2nd loop pver all these objects, you have the report you want.

$report = @()

filter Get-SnapshotFast{
	$_
	if($_.ChildSnapshotList){
		$_.ChildSnapShotList | Get-SnapshotFast
	}
}

Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | where {$_.Snapshot.RootSnapshotList} | %{
	$vm = $_
	$_.Snapshot.RootSnapshotList | Get-SnapshotFast | %{
		$row = "" | select VMname, Desc, Created 
		$row.VMname = $vm.Name 
		$row.Desc = $_.Description
		$row.Created = $_.CreateTime
		$report += $row
	}
}

$report | ft -auto | out-string

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Blog: LucD notes

Twitter: lucd22

That's nice, now I'm happy.

Thank you!