Script to report snapshots with exclusion of VMs from certain folders

[karthik_chand]

Dear Experts,

Our requirement is as follows,

We would like to have a weekly report of the snapshot usage within the vCenter. Here, we would like to filter out some of the VMs based on the folders that they exist. 

I have come across many snapshot reports but none of them cater to our needs to filter them by the folders. 

For example, we would like to exclude VMs which are in the folders "TEST" "REPLICAS" etc. 

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Karthik

[Macleud · Accepted solution]

Hi.

You could try something like this.

Get-Vm | where {$_.Folder -ne "TEST" -and $_.Folder -ne "REPLICAS"} | Get-Snapshot | Select-Object Description, Created, VM, SizeMB, SizeGB

or

$Folders = "TEST", "REPLICAS"

Get-Vm | where {$Folders -NotContains $_.Folder.name } | Get-Snapshot | Select-Object Description, Created, VM, SizeMB, SizeGB

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Taking into account that casting is determined by the left operand, that should be

Get-Vm | where {$_.Folder.Name -ne "TEST" -and $_.Folder.Name -ne "REPLICAS"} | Get-Snapshot | Select-Object Description, Created, VM, SizeMB, SizeGB

or

Get-Vm | where {"TEST" -ne $_.Folder -and "REPLICAS" -ne $_.Folder} | Get-Snapshot | Select-Object Description, Created, VM, SizeMB, SizeGB