collect hosts info accross multiple vCenters

[curiousbytes]

hello all,

We have multiple vCenters servers I'm trying is to collect some basic data (for start).

PS C:\> foreach ($vc in $global:DefaultVIServers) {
$esxi = get-vmhost -Server $vc

[PSCustomObject]@{
Name = $esxi.name
ConnectionState = $esxi.ConnectionState
PowerState = $esxi.PowerState
Version = $esxi.Version
}
}

I'm not sure why I get the data in  { }.

Name                                                     ConnectionState
----                                                     ---------------
{esx01.local, esx02.local, esx03.local, esx04.local} 	{Maintenance, Connected, Connected, Connected}
{prod01.local, prod02.local, prod03.local, prod04.local}  {Connected, Connected}
{dns01.local, dns02.local, dns03.local, dns04.local}      {Connected, Connected, Connected, Connected...}
{dc01.local, dc02.local, dc03.local, dc04.local}  	{Connected, Connected, Connected, Connected...}
{test01.local, test02.local, test03.local, test04.local} {Connected, Connected, Connected, Connected}

 am I missing something obvious here or I'm overthinking it?

Thanks, Mike

[LucD]

Your $esxi variable contains an array of ESXi nodes, hence all derived properties are also arrays (which the {} indicates)

You can add another loop over all ESXi nodes.
Something like this for example

foreach ($vc in $global:DefaultVIServers) {

  Get-VMHost -Server $vc -PipelineVariable esxi |
  ForEach-Object -Process {

  [PSCustomObject]@{
    Name = $esxi.name
    ConnectionState = $esxi.ConnectionState
    PowerState = $esxi.PowerState
    Version = $esxi.Version
  }
}
}