Get-vRNIVM

NAME Get-vRNIVM



SYNOPSIS

Get virtual machines from vRealize Network Insight.





SYNTAX

Get-vRNIVM [-Limit <Int32>] [[-Name] <String>] [-Connection <PSObject>] [<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

vRealize Network Insight has a database of all VMs in your environment

and this cmdlet will help you discover these VMs.





PARAMETERS

-Limit <Int32>

Limit the amount of records returned



Required? false

Position? named

Default value 0

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Name <String>

Limit the amount of records returned



Required? false

Position? 2

Default value

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Connection <PSObject>

vRNI Connection object



Required? false

Position? named

Default value $defaultvRNIConnection

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,

ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,

OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see

about_CommonParameters (https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).



INPUTS



OUTPUTS



-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------



PS C:\\>Get-vRNIVM



List all VMs in your vRNI environment (note: this may take a while if you have a lot of VMs)









-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------



PS C:\\>Get-vRNIVM -Name my-vm-name



Retrieve only the VM object called "my-vm-name"









-------------------------- EXAMPLE 3 --------------------------



PS C:\\>$vcenter_entity_id = (Get-vRNIvCenter | Where {$_.name -eq "vcenter.lab"}).entity_id



PS C:\\> Get-vRNIVM | Where {$_.vcenter_manager.entity_id -eq $vcenter_entity_id}

Get all VMs that are attached to the vCenter named "vcenter.lab"











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