Powercli to apply a role to just Linux VM's

[LPLAdmin]

Does anyone have a script to apply a role to just Linux VM's in your environment or Windows VM's?

Thanks,

Pete

[LucD · Accepted solution]

With a Where-clause you can filter out the Linux VMs from a Get-VM.
Then it is just a matter of using the New-VIPermssion cmdlet on those VMs.

[LPLAdmin]

Luc,

This is what I have.  

$linuxvms = Get-VM | where{$_.ExtensionData.Config.GuestFullname -match "Red Hat Enterprise Linux"}
New-VIPermission -role "Role Name" -principal "AD Group Name" -Entity $linuxvms

Got this error.

New-VIPermission : Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'Entity'. This parameter no longer accepts an array. As an alternative you may pass multiple values by pipeline (if supported by the
parameter).

[LucD]

That indicates that more than 1 VM is returned (passed the Where-clause).
You can pipe the result to a Foreach loop, and handle the VMs one-by-one inside that loop.

[Zsoldier · Accepted solution]

In case you need a little help:

$linuxvms = Get-VM | where{$_.ExtensionData.Config.GuestFullname -match "Red Hat Enterprise Linux"}
Foreach ($linuxvm in $linuxvms)
{
New-VIPermission -role "Role Name" -principal "AD Group Name" -Entity $linuxvm
}