VMware View | PowerCLI | How to get number of VM's in a specific Pool-ID

[TheMaelito]

Hi

Usually to get the number of VM's in a pool I run this command:

Get-Pool | Select Pool_id, @{Name="NumVM";Expression={($_ | Get-DesktopVM).Count}} | out-gridview

But how can I list all pools and then select the pool which I want a count from?

Maybe something like:

Select 1 for Accounts

Select 2 for Marketing

and then count VM's just for that pool and out prompt where to output (Out-gridview or Export-CSV)

Thanks, Maelito

[LucD]

You mean something like this

$pools = Get-Pool

1..$pools.Count | %{
  Write-Host "$_ " $Pools[$_ - 1].Pool_id
}
$number = Read-Host "Select a pool"
$pools[$number -1] | Select Pool_id,@{N="VM Count";E={@(Get-DesktopVM -Pool_id $_.Pool_id).Count}}

Updated: wrong code, updated now

[TheMaelito · Accepted solution]

Hi LucD

I don't understand the line:

1..$pools.Count | %{
  Write-Host "$_ " $Pools[$_ - 1].Name

Why do we need the 1..

Also is get-resourcepool the same as get-pool?

Thanks, Maelito

[LucD]

Sorry about that, I initially gave the wrong code.

The updated code above is for a View environment.

The 1..$pools.Count part generates the numbers 1 till the number of pools you have.

The script loops over these numbers. Each number is displayed at the beginning of the line, together with the name of the pool.

This will allow you to make a selection of the pool.

Remember that an array is indexed starting at 0, so we have to subtract 1 to reference the correct entry in the array.

[TheMaelito]

Brilliant, thanks!