Automation

Hi

Does anyone know how to change the mode of a specific virtual disk?

The desktop I'm workign on has two virtual disks and I only want to change the first disk...

If I use..

Get-Harddisk -vm STU-NP-P1-2 | Set-harddisk -Persistence "IndependentNonPersistent"

the command works but changes all the disks to "IndependentNonPersistent"

How do I do this for a specific disk?

Thanks

Try something like this

Get-HardDisk -VM STU-NP-P1-2 | where {$_.Name -eq "Hard disk 1"} | Set-harddisk -Persistence "IndependentNonPersistent"

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Thanks for your answer, it works great, would you mind explaining what the "$_.Name" part does? I dont quite understand how it works....

Thanks

Sure, the Get-HardDisk cmdlet returns one or more objects and places these objects in the pipeline (the '|' operator).

The next cmdlet, the Where-Object cmdlet, receives the objects one-by-one.

The object is available to the Where-Object cmdlet as the $_ variable.

Objects have properties, in other words values, associated with them.

To retrieve a value for a specific property one uses the dot-notation.

In this case $_.Name means the Name property of the object that arrived through the pipe.

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