Get the path of a virtual machine

[AGFlora]

Hi

Need help retrieving the full path of a virtual machine. I've tried examples but could not get it to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Attached is the code that I need to add the path to.

Thanks

[LucD]

That property would be in

$vm.config.files.vmPathName

[AGFlora]

Hi LucD

That did work as far as the path from the SAN...Thanks. I should of made myself more clear but what I need is the path from the hosts & Clusters or just the DataCenter.

[LucD]

Have a look at .

Is that the "path" you want to see ?

[AGFlora]

Yes...

Name Path
VM1 datacenter1\folder1\VM1
VM2 datacenter1\folder2\VM2
VM3 datacenter2\folder2\VM3

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Try it with the attached script.

[adamy]

The above examples will all work.

The easiest way is to right click on a VM and choose "Edit Settings" and highlight the Hard disk(one at a time) and look in the upper right of the Window. The full path and the LUN is there.

There are definitly many ways to do this.

[AGFlora]

" The easiest way is to right click on a VM and choose "Edit Settings" and highlight the Hard disk(one at a time) and look in the upper right of the Window. The full path and the LUN is there."

This is true if I wanted to just view the path of one vm at a time but I need to view the path(Datacenter\Folder\VM1) of hundreds of vm's in a report.

Thanks for your input.

[adamy]

My apologies. After I hit send I realized this was in the VMware vSphere^TM PowerCLI community.

Feeling a little stupid here.

[AGFlora]

No problem. At least you took the time to try and help. :smileyblush:

Cheers!

[AGFlora]

Works great Thanks!.

I've just ordered Hal's book. Have you read it?

Message was edited by: AGFlora

[LucD]

Yes, I read Hal's book (in fact I was one of the reviewers )

It will be a great resource when you're going the PowerShell automation way.

Enjoy reading it.