Need to know the contents in datastore using powercli or power shell commands

[Gvckrishna]

I need to get the contents in a datastore present in our environment , how can i get those using a powershell or powercli commands ?

[LucD]

You can use the VimDatastore PSProvider for that.

$dsName = 'MyDS'

$ds = Get-Datastore -Name $dsName

New-PSDrive -Location $ds -Name DS -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root '' | Out-Null

Get-ChildItem -Path DS:\ -Recurse

Remove-PSDrive -Name DS -Confirm:$false