Greetings,
I have a need to get the names of all VMs in a specific folder into a variable so that I can "mass-migrate" using William Lam's awesome
New-XVCMRequest function
e.g. PS c:\> New-XVCMRequest -opType Relocate -SrcSite CALIF -DstSite OREGON -SrcDatacenter SDDC-Datacenter -srcVMs @($CALIFservers) -DstDatacenter SDDC-Datacenter -DstCluster "Cluster-1" -DstHost $null -DstDatastore WorkloadDatastore -NetworkMapping @{”CALIF-sddc-VMs”="OREGON-sddc-VMs"} -DstPool Compute-ResourcePool -DstFolder Workloads
if I manually add VMnames like this:
PS C:\> $CALIFservers = "Calif-Server-1","Calif-Server-2"
then output is
PS c:\> $CALIFservers
Calif-Server-1
Calif-Server-2
--- and the above command migrates 2 servers. sweet!
I thought I was getting close to getting the list with:
PS C:\> Get-VM -Location (Get-Folder -Name Workloads) | select Name | ft -HideTableHeaders
Calif-Server-1
Calif-Server-2
...
etc....
So, I thought, cool: then I'll just do:
PS C:\> $CALIFservers = Get-VM -Location (Get-Folder -Name Workloads) | select Name | ft -HideTableHeaders
as the output of C:\> $CALIFservers is:
Calif-Server-1
Calif-Server-2
...
etc....
But, No... I cannot seem to get this: $CALIFservers = Get-VM -Location (Get-Folder -Name Workloads) | select Name | ft -HideTableHeaders
to yield the same result as: $CALIFservers = "Calif-Server-1","Calif-Server-2"
I need $CALIFservers to provide something of the format "Calif-Server-1","Calif-Server-2",.... so the syntax will be correct for the above New-XVCMRequest function....
Any PowerCLI ideas?
thanks so much!!
~mikes
