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By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:20:31 +0000

Replace Split() int line 39 with .Split($Separator, [StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:17:04 +0000

In reply to Daniel. Uh, I noticed it throws the error when the Path starts with /

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:16:19 +0000

It does return the correct folder, but only after throwing an error.

Get-Inventory:
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36 | $root = Get-Inventory -Name $_ -Location $root -N …
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| Cannot validate argument on parameter ‘Name’. The argument is null, empty, or an element of the argument collection contains a null value. Supply a collection that does not contain any null values and then try the command again.

By: Angelo

Angelo — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:53:20 +0000

In reply to LucD. i have an error message when i use this code: Import-Csv Folder.csv -UseCulture | %{ $vm = Get-VM -Name $_.VmName $folder = Get-FolderByPath -Path $_.FolderName Move-VM -VM $vm -Destination $folder } ###############error####################" PS C:\Dell\Folder> .\folder.ps1 AVERTISSEMENT : Specifying Folder in the Destination parameter is deprecated and the parameter will stop accepting Folder objects at a future release. Please use the InventoryLocation parameter instead. Move-VM : 21/10/2020 13:50:13 Move-VM The operation for the entity "XXXX" failed with the following message: "The request refers to an unexpected or unknown type." Au caractère C:\Dell\Folder\folder.ps1:92 : 3 + Move-VM -VM $vm -Destination $folder + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Move-VM], InvalidType + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_TaskServiceImpl_CheckServerSideTaskUpdates_OperationFailed,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.MoveVM AVERTISSEMENT : Specifying Folder in the Destination parameter is deprecated and the parameter will stop accepting Folder objects at a future release. Please use the InventoryLocation parameter instead. Move-VM : 21/10/2020 13:50:18 Move-VM The operation for the entity "XXXX" failed with the following message: "The request refers to an unexpected or unknown type." Au caractère C:\Dell\Folder\folder.ps1:92 : 3 + Move-VM -VM $vm -Destination $folder + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Move-VM], InvalidType + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_TaskServiceImpl_CheckServerSideTaskUpdates_OperationFailed,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.MoveVM

By: LucD

LucD — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:24:03 +0000

In reply to Angelo. Just copy the complete function to your .ps1 file. Then, in the same .ps1 file, you can call the function.


function Get-FolderByPath{
...
}

Get-FolderByPath -Path "DC1/Blue1/Blue12/Blue121/Servers"

By: Angelo

Angelo — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:54:29 +0000

hello,
in this link:
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/530723
you said that:
You will have to copy the code for my Get-FolderByPath function to your .ps1 file (at the top).Then you call the function later on in the .ps1 file.

could you give me an example please ? how can i call function in the file?

By: LucD

LucD — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:28:34 +0000

In reply to Matt. Thanks for sharing that Matt.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:08:05 +0000

In reply to Peter. To fix the "multiple child issue" I modified my loop from: foreach($strPath in $Path){ $root = Get-Folder -Name $rootName -Server $vc -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $strPath.Split($Separator) | %{ $root = Get-Inventory -Name $_ -Location $root -Server $vc -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if((Get-Inventory -Location $root -NoRecursion | Select -ExpandProperty Name) -contains "vm"){ $root = Get-Inventory -Name "vm" -Location $root -Server $vc -NoRecursion } } to: for ($i = 0; $i -lt $strPath.Split($Separator).count; $i++) { $FOLDER = $strPath.Split($Separator)[$i] if ($i -eq 0 ) { # FIRST FOLDER $root = Get-Inventory -Name $FOLDER -Location $root -Server $vc -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue } else { # SUBSEQUENT FOLDERS $root = Get-Inventory -Name $FOLDER -Location $root -Server $vc -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ? {$_.Parent.Name -eq $root} } if((Get-Inventory -Location $root -NoRecursion | Select -ExpandProperty Name) -contains "vm"){ $root = Get-Inventory -Name "vm" -Location $root -Server $vc -NoRecursion } }

By: LucD

LucD — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 13:35:29 +0000

In reply to Amine. Sorry to hear that. A screenshot of the tree structure of the VM folder could help me trying to analyse further.