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MorDrakka
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Get-View $ds.Parent not working on vcenter 2.5 ?

Hi,

I am trying to create a quick DR-test script with help of Luc's Register-VMX function. However during testing fase I am encountering an issue with the following statement

$ds = Get-Datastore $dsName | Get-View

$dsBrowser = Get-View $ds.Browser

$dc = Get-View $ds.Parent

The error I receive is

The argument cannot be null or empty.

At :line:5 char:20

+ $dc = Get-View <<<< $ds.Parent

I tried this with multiple datastores and enough access rights. I wonder know does vCenter 2.5 u5 support this get-view command ?

thx

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MorDrakka
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No issue's on a vCenter 4.0.0 build, so I guess I found it.

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ykalchev
VMware Employee
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Hi,

Datastore object is a ManagedEntity since vSphere 4.0. That's why the Parent property is empty on vc 2.5. You can replace this code:

$dc = Get-View $ds.Parent
while($dc.MoRef.Type -ne "Datacenter"){
$dc = Get-View $dc.Parent
}

with:

    $dc = Get-View -ViewType Datacenter -Filter @{datastore=$ds.MoRef.Value}

Regards,

Yasen Kalchev

PowerCLI Dev Team

Yasen Kalchev, vSM Dev Team
MorDrakka
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Ok,

This works however the taskinfo does not receive any data. The script now outputs:

Checking Testds123

Done

I have walked with the debugger throught the script and recognised the point where it goes wrong:

if($folder.file -ne $null){

Looking to the lines above this statement I find:

$task.UpdateViewData("Info.Result")

foreach ($folder in $task.Info.Result){

The debugger variables window shows "Cannot process argument because the value of argument "obj" is null. Change the value of argument "obj" to a non-null value."

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