Retrieving a VM or Host "path"

[gilesm]

I need to know the full "path" to a VM or Host as it appears in the "Virtual Machines and Templates" view in the vSphere client. Right now, my C# code uses recursion to walk through and build each path individually. For a large environment (500+ VMs) this process takes an extremely long time. I realize the recursion is the problem but am curious if anyone has figured out a more efficient way to collecting a VM or Host's path? Thanks and I've provided a sample below to show what I want to retrieve.

"Atlanta/Development/Mike/MyVM01"

• "Atlanta" is the datacenter

• "Development" is a folder under the "Atlanta"datacenter.

• "Mike" is a folder underneath the "Development" folder.

• "MyVM01" is the actual virtual machine display name.

[lamw · Accepted solution]

Take a look at this script: you can easily modify the script to change the way it's outputted to what you like.

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William Lam

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[gilesm]

I figured we could not get away from using recursion so I guess I'm just stuck with that. Thanks for the help.