Some help with Remove-VM

[TDRoy]

I have the following:

Get-Cluster 'xxx' | Get-VM | Select Name,

  @{N="ConnectionState";E={$_.ExtensionData.Runtime.ConnectionState}} |

  Where {$_.ConnectionState -eq "Orphaned"}

Im looking to pipe in a Remove-VM to this which will unregister any found orphaned VMs.

Im getting an error that it cannot take a pipe input.

Any assistance would be great

Thank you

[LucD · Accepted solution]

The Remove-VM cmdlet expects a VirtualMachine object as input.

The object that is in the pipeline after the Select is not such an object.

Try like this

Get-Cluster 'xxx' | Get-VM |

Where {$_.ExtensionData.Runtime.ConnectionState -eq "Orphaned"} |

Remove-VM -Confirm:$false

[TDRoy]

Hi Luc,

**Edit** It does work. I was running this in a weird older version of PS or PCLI and it was erroring out.

Thank you