Resource Pool issue with PowerCLI

[Biyouk]

Hi Everyone

I'm trying to understand why I have these differences below:

1) When I ran this command from PowerCLI console "Get-ResourcePool 1_OVC01_GOLD". The result is :

Name                 Id

----                 --

1_OVC01_GOLD         ResourcePool-resgroup-3603

2) When I ran the same command from a PS1 PowerShell Script, the result is different :

ParentId                 : ResourcePool-resgroup-411

Parent                   : Resources

CpuSharesLevel           : Custom

NumCpuShares             : 2000

CpuReservationMHz        : 0

CpuExpandableReservation : True

CpuLimitMHz              : -1

MemSharesLevel           : Custom

NumMemShares             : 2000

MemReservationMB         : 1045

MemExpandableReservation : True

MemLimitMB               : -1

Name                     : 1_OVC01_GOLD

CustomFields             : {}

ExtensionData            : VMware.Vim.ResourcePool

Id                       : ResourcePool-resgroup-3603

Uid                      : /VIServer=serv_vcadmin@am.lafargeone.net@amavcs01.am.lafargeone.net:443/ResourcePool=ResourcePool-resgroup-3603/

3) I would like to extract the values of NumCpuShares and NumMemShares on some output but the following comment doesn't work. Can someone explain me why ?

Get-ResourcePool 1_OVC01_GOLD | Select-String -pattern "NumCpuShares"

Get-ResourcePool 1_OVC01_GOLD | Select-String -pattern "NumMemShares"

Thanks for your help.

JEFF

[LucD · Accepted solution]

The object that is returned is the same in both cases, which you can check by running from the prompt or in your script.

Get-ResourcePool 1_OVC01_GOLD | Select *

The difference is there because of the way the output handler in PowerShell shows you the object. For that the handler uses the .ps1xml files. These define which properties of an object are displayed and in which format.

To extract the values for those specific properties you can do

Get-ResourcePool 1_OVC01_GOLD | Select -ExpandProperty NumCpuShares

Get-ResourcePool 1_OVC01_GOLD | Select -ExpandProperty NumMemShares

[Biyouk]

Thanks for your example. You help me a lot.