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All, We have a script we were planning to use to find dead, standby, and active paths, but it doesn't seem to match up to the gui every time.  Any idea why?  Is this cmdlet out of date? $results= @() foreach ($VMHost in $VMHosts) { ##   Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba -VMHost $VMHost | Out-Null [ARRAY]$HBAs = $VMHost | Get-VMHostHba -Type "FibreChannel"       foreach ($HBA in $HBAs) {     $pathState = $HBA | Get-ScsiLun | Get-ScsiLunPath | Group-Object -Property state     $pathStateActive = $pathState | ? { $_.Name -eq "Active"}     $pathStateDead = $pathState | ? { $_.Name -eq "Dead"}     $pathStateStandby = $pathState | ? { $_.Name -eq "Standby"}     $results += "{0},{1},{2},{3},{4},{5}" -f $VMHost.Name, $HBA.Device, $VMHost.Parent, [INT]$pathStateActive.Count, [INT]$pathStateDead.Count, [INT]$pathStateStandby.Count     } } ConvertFrom-Csv -Header "VMHost","HBA","Cluster","Active","Dead","Standby" -InputObject $results | Ft -AutoSize

All, I am a little stumped by this, but essentially we are trying to create our own OVF because we need virtual hardware 10 instead of version 11 to use William Lam's script here: Deploying Nested ESXi is even easier now with the ESXi Virtual Appliance | virtuallyGhetto I have created a VM and added the properties for guest.info just like he has in the screenshots, but when I export the OVF it and try to use hte Get-OVFconfiguration it does not show those parameters.  Anyone have an idea? PowerCLI C:\TEMP\esx> Get-OvfConfiguration .\esx.ovf ========================= OvfConfiguration: esx.ovf Properties: ———– NetworkMapping

Hey all we are running VROPS 6.2 and we have a large environment 10000 VM's.  The problem with the environment view is that it shows everything.  Is there a way to restrict that view to the object you are clicking, say an individual Vcenter?

All, I am writing a script to list deployment times of VM's and I am getting an error when trying to create the report.  I got it working, but it is displaying the event twice and i'm not sure why Name                            Date                                                  Minutes                        Seconds ----                            ----                                                  -------                        ------- TestEvent2                      11/6/2015 9:55:55 AM                                        1                             42 TestEvent                       11/6/2015 9:10:17 AM                                        1                             56 TestEvent2                      11/6/2015 9:55:55 AM                                        1                             42 TestEvent                       11/6/2015 9:10:17 AM                                        1                             56 $events = Get-VIEvent -maxsamples 500| where {$_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmBeingDeployedEvent" -or $_.gettype().name -eq "VmDeployedEvent"} $VMDeployReport = @() $events | where {$_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmBeingDeployedEvent"} | % {   $row = "" | Select Name, Date, Minutes, Seconds   $chainidkey = $_.chainid   $VmName = ($_.FullFormattedMessage).split('')[1]   $deployed = $events | where {$_.gettype().name -eq "VmDeployedEvent" -and $_.Chainid -eq $chainidkey}   $StartTime = $_.createdtime   #$date = $deployed.CreatedTime.ToString().split('')[0]   $endtime = $deployed.createdtime   $time = New-TimeSpan -start $starttime -end $endtime   $row.Name = $VmName   $row.date = $StartTime   $row.Minutes = $time.Minutes   $row.Seconds = $time.Seconds   $row   $VMDeployReport += $row   }   $VMDeployReport

All, I am trying to take a hostname without FQDN and then say if get-vmhost works then set a variable to $vmhost, if it fails then do the next.  I can do an if statement, but was trying to understand the switch statement as I may have multiple values beyond a couple as far as domains go.  I am unsure if this syntax of logic is correct.  Any help? switch ($hostlist.hostname)   {   {Get-VMHost $_+"test.com"} { $vmhost = Get-VMHost $_+"test.com"}   {Get-VMHost $_+"test2.com"} { $vmhost = Get-VMHost $_+"test2.com"}   }