New To Powercli

[Pilu1978]

Hi,

I am new to powercli and trying to explore it as much as possible. While working with powercli I do not know how to find property of the members of a cmdlet. For example  if I ran the following command on the powercli:

Get-VM | Get-Member

We will get a list of members. Now If I want use Powerstate member in my script I need to know that this memeber has two sub-properties as Poweredon and PoweredOff.

Now I do not know what are the properties of the member Guest or harddisks etc. So how to find these properties easily so that I can use it as a condition with where-object in my script.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

You can tackle this with the Format-Custom cmdlet.

Something like this will show you the properties 2 levels deep.

Get-VM MyVM | Format-Custom * -Depth 2

And if you're only interested in the Guest property, you could do

Get-VM MyVM | Format-Custom Guest -Depth 2