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New-Folder

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NAME New-Folder



SYNOPSIS

This cmdlet creates a new folder on a vCenter Server system.





SYNTAX

New-Folder [-Name] <String> [-Location] <VIContainer> [-Server <VIServer[]>] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf]

[<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

This cmdlet creates a new folder on the specified location.





PARAMETERS

-Location <VIContainer>

Specifies a container object (folder or datacenter) where you want to place the new folder. If a datacenter is

specified for the Location parameter, then the folder is created in its "hostFolder" folder and contains hosts

and clusters. The "hostFolder" is a system folder and is guaranteed to exist.



Required? true

Position? 2

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? True (ByValue)

Accept wildcard characters? true



-Name <String>

Specifies a name for the new folder.



Required? true

Position? 1

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Server <VIServer[]>

Specifies the vCenter Server systems on which you want to run the cmdlet. If no value is passed to this

parameter, the command runs on the default servers. For more information about default servers, see the

description of Connect-VIServer.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? true



-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]

If the value is $true, indicates that the cmdlet asks for confirmation before running. If the value is $false,

the cmdlet runs without asking for user confirmation.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value $true

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]

Indicates that the cmdlet is run only to display the changes that would be made and actually no objects are

modified.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value False

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

The newly created Folder object







NOTES









-------------------------- Example 1 --------------------------



New-Folder -Name "Folder1" -Location (Get-Datacenter)[0]



Creates a new folder in a datacenter root.

-------------------------- Example 2 --------------------------



Get-Folder | Select -First 1 | New-Folder -Name "Folder2"



Creates a nested folder by using a pipeline command.

-------------------------- Example 3 --------------------------



New-Folder -Name "FirstLevelFolder1" -Location (Get-Folder vm)



Creates a new folder in the root vSphere virtual machine folder.



RELATED LINKS

Online Version: https://code.vmware.com/doc/preview?id= ... older.html

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