Specify a datastore in scripts

[Gaprofittit]

Hi,

For this script how do I specify a particular datastore within that cluster?

#Get source template

$Template = Get-Template -Name 'template_1601422'

#Get a host within the development cluster

$VMHost = Get-Cluster 'Carrollton Dev - Vsphere 5' | Get-VMHost | Get-Random

#Deploy our New VM

New-VM -Template $Template -Name 'devtest1' -VMhost $VmHost

Thanks,

Greg

[LucD]

Pass all the ESX(i) hosts in the cluster and then only keep the unique objects.

Get-Cluster 'Carrollton Dev - Vsphere 5' | Get-VMHost | Get-Datastore | Sort-Object -Unique

[Gaprofittit]

Excuse my lack of knowledge, i'm a complete noob with powercli, where do i put in that syntax say "equallogic-1-vol-2"

Thanks,

Greg

[LucD · Accepted solution]

You can use a Where-clause to filter the one(s) you want.

Get-Cluster 'Carrollton Dev - Vsphere 5' | Get-VMHost | Get-Datastore | Where {$_.Name -eq "equallogic-1-vol-2"} | Sort-Object -Unique

But why make it so difficult, you can just do the Get-Datastore with that name.

Get-Datastore -Name "equallogic-1-vol-2"

[Gaprofittit]

Awesome, thanks for the help..

Greg

[vsmorfa]

Hi LucD.
I'm using a script to create a .csv file to monitor the latency of my datastores.
In this report I put the information I need in this way:

Foreach ($oEntry in $Report) {

$oObject = New-Object PSObject -Property @{

Entity = $oEntry.Entity

Instance = $oEntry.Instance

MetricId = $oEntry.MetricId

Timestamp = ($oentry.Timestamp).toString('dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm')

Value = $oEntry.Value

Unit = $oEntry.Unit

}

Now, I would like to know if there is a way to change the Instance = $oEntry.Instance, that returns something like that: 4d4b3f85-db8f3f4c-3fc4-984be1xxxxxx,  with the name of the datastore, I mean something like Datastore1, Datastore2 ecc. ecc.
Thank you

V.