Automation

Does anyone have details on how to use wildcards with the get-view commandlet?

e.g.

get-view -viewtype virtualmachine -filter @{"Name" = "server*"}

where I want to return all vms with beginning with the name server

This doesn't work but I'm sure there is some syntax available to make this work

In the Get-View filter you can use a set of regex expressions

get-view -viewtype virtualmachine -filter @{"Name" = "^server"}

This will resturn every virtualmachine whose name starts with "server".

In VMware PowerCLI and Get-View filters you'll find some more info.

Thanks a bunch