powercli:exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation

[jvm2016]

Hi Luc,

got following error while getting vmlist from cluster

can you please suggest something on above .

[ganapa2000]

Can you try Get-Cluster <Clustername> | get-vm

[LucD]

Do you also get the same exception when you

Get-VM -Location $cluster

[jvm2016]

yes it gave me same result .

[jvm2016]

thnaksfor replying but this also does not work.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

When you leave out the Location parameter, are the VMs on that cluster returned?

This looks similar to the issue in Get-VM Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

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[jvm2016]

tx ,i am checking this .

[jvm2016]

i checked on different vmwhere powercli 11.2 was installed .and i dont get this error now .

thnaks for this.

[MYL1]

I am also facing the same issue. Get-vm is working fine for other vms created by cloning from the base machine. If i create a vm by template then it is not working. What could be the reason for this ?

[LucD]

Did you try completely removing PowerCLI and reinstalling it?

[MYL1]

mine is a new system and i recently installed powercli 6.5

[LucD]

Any reason why you using this old version 6.5?

[MYL1]

i removed 6.5 and installed 12.3 version.

Now Get-vm is working fine. But new-vm retuns some permission issue which was working fine with 6.5

new-vm : 26/01/2022 16:21:29 New-VM Permission to perform this operation was denied. Required privilege 'System.Read'

[LucD]

That is hidden permission which everyone needs to access the vCenter hierarchy.

[satheeshsatz]

Hi LuCD, 

am facing same issue. But, this is not happening to most of the ESXi, only to perticular ESXi host's VMs list iam not able to pull.

is there something related to port or any restriction to get the data? 

Get-VM Exception has been thrown by the target of an
invocation.