get-vmhost | get-vm

[iefke]

The command "Get-VMhost -name ESXhost | Get-VM" return more VMs than that there on the VMware ESX host currently. Anybody seen this before?

[gboskin]

its probably returning all the VM on the host ( ESXHost) both powered on and powered off...

[halr9000]

Maybe it's the dreaded "VM creep"

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[esarakaitis]

is it showing your templates as well?

[iefke]

No its one VMware ESX server of a cluster of 8 servers. I did a VMotion of all VMs except one on the VMware ESX server . Only one VM active and no powered off VMs or templates.

[esarakaitis]

what script are you using?

are you specifying the esx-hostname?? if not, it might pull all of the vm's of the cluster/dc

[iefke]

Yes i'am specifying the ESX hostname

Get-VMhost -name ESXhostname | Get-VM"

[esarakaitis]

looks like from my testing its getting the entire cluster...

try connecting directly to the host instead of vc and see if you see the same results

[iefke]

connecting directly to the host works, but i want to make a script that all VMs on the specified ESX hosts get vmotioned with the move-vm command.

[halr9000]

See if this works:

( Get-VMHost foo | Get-View ).VM | foreach-object { $_ | Get-VIObjectByVIView }

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[esarakaitis]

figured it out, seems like a bug...

try: Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.Host.Name -eq "esxhost"}

[esarakaitis]

$hostinfo = get-vmhost "vmhostname"

$vmviews = (Get-View $hostinfo.ID).VM

$vmviews | % {

$_ | Get-VIOBjectByVIView

}

[yboychev]

Hi,

Could you please give some more details about the environment against which you are reproducing this issue. I've tried to reproduce it against a vc that has a couple of hosts inside a single cluster each containing several vms. When I execute Get-Vmhost -Name MyESX | Get-Vm everything seems to be OK and the result contains only the vms from MyESX.

Which version of the toolkit (Get-VIToolkitVersion) are you using?

10x in advance for the info!

\Yavor