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Queue Deflation
I’m rather red-faced right now. I chimed in with a reply in the VMTN VMware vSphere PowerCLI forum and promptly got schooled.Which is great; these things should happen.
Where’s the Template?
In this thread, VMTN Communities member denjoh44 asked how one would obtain a list of templates along with the name of the vSphere hosts on which they reside.I haven’t had the need to do this myself, but I wanted to give it a shot. I fired up PowerShell ISE and plugged away:
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| $Templates = @() | |
| $Hosts = Get-VMHost | |
| foreach ($h in $hosts) { | |
| $HostTemplates = Get-Template -Location $h | |
| foreach ($t in $HostTemplates) { | |
| $TemplateInfo = New-Object PSObject | |
| $TemplateInfo | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty Name -Value $t.Name | |
| $TemplateInfo | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty Host -Value $h.Name | |
| $Templates += $TemplateInfo | |
| } | |
| } | |
| $Templates |
I See Your 12 Lines and…
It wasn’t long after that I revisited the thread only to find a much more elegant solution posted by Christophe Calvet:
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| Get-Template | | |
| Select-Object Name, @{N="Host"; E={(Get-View $_.HostId).Name}} | | |
| Format-Table -AutoSize |
Time to Learn
Brian Graf has a 3-part blog series on Get-View which I’ve seen before and marked for reading in more detail “later.” If you are interested in learning more about Get-View, start here:- Get-View Part 1: Introduction
- Get-View Part 2: Views and Extension Data
- Get-View Part 3: Performance Impact