report VM's in SRM "protected"

[drivera01]

So I am wondering if there is a way to pull data to gather a list of VM's that are "protected" by SRM?

This would be populated into a data gathering script for VM's

Thanks

[LucD]

Would this work ?

Get-VM | 
where  { @($_.Harddisks | Select -ExpandProperty Name) -contains "Placeholder"} | 
Select Name

[drivera01]

The "hard disk" property appears to be deprecated

[LucD]

That is just a warning, for now you can ignore it.

But does the logic work, does it show the SRM protected VM ?

[sparrowangelste]

will this only work at the destination site?

Or  can  it work against the source ?

[LucD]

That would need to be run against the recovery site.

[drivera01]

Since the recovery site is the only place that uses the "placeholder"

It does not however work for me, it does not show the protected vm's

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Then I would suggest to look at the SRM API method called GetProtectionStatus.

Through the WSDL file, available on the SRM server, you can call the SRM API methods from PowerShell.

There is an example file with some samples functions  in chapter 10 of the PowerCLI Reference book. The code is available on the book's download site.

[drivera01]

It appears to be a SRM5 thing, we are unfortunately still @4.1...

well, ok thank you for the help.