Automation

We have folders created for each of our clients. Under each of those parent folders we have a Monthly and Daily folder to split out when they need to get backed up. I have searched, with little luck, on how to document which vm is in which folder. For example if there was a folder called clientx I would like to find a way to document vm x, y, and z are in clientx/monthly and vm a, b,and c are in clientx/daily.

Any help would be appreciated.

I think Get-Folder Monthly | Get-VM and Get-Folder Daily | Get-VM will work.

If not, Get-Folder HigherLevelFolder | Get-Folder Monthly | Get-VM should do the trick.

Script below (by LucD) will list all vm in each folder if you want to report for individual folders use "findstr" on the end of script:

$report = @()

Get-Folder | foreach-object {

$folder = $_.Name

$_ | Get-VM | foreach-object {

$row = "" | select FolderName, VMName

$row.FolderName = $folder

$row.VMName = $_.Name

$report += $row

}

}

$report | findstr foldername

Thank you both for your quick response. I can get the information from both of the ideas you posted.

Thanks Again!!