Add a filter on get-view to only return results from a specific cluster

[dbutch1976]

Hi All,
I've had some luck using get-filter to filter on individual VMs by name, but how can I use get-view -filter to only return results from a specific cluster? 

Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{"Cluster"=MYCLUSTER"} -Property Parent, Config, Summary, Runtime |
ForEach-Object -Process {
  $esx = Get-View -Id $_.Runtime.Host -Property Name, Parent
  [PSCustomObject] @{
    Name = $_.config.name
    GuestId = $_.Config.GuestId
    vCenter = ([uri]$_.Client.ServiceUrl).Host
    Folder = (Get-View -Id $_.Parent -Property Name).Name
    'IP Address' = $_.Summary.Guest.IpAddress
    Template = $_.summary.config.Template
    VMHost = $esx.Name
    Cluster = (Get-View -Id $esx.Parent -Property Name).Name
    Notes = $_.summary.config.annotation
  }
}

This is erroring out.

[LucD]

Use the SearchRoot parameter instead.

Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -SearchRoot ((Get-Cluster -Name MyCluster).ExtensionData.MoRef) -Property Parent, Config, Summary, Runtime

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[dbutch1976]

Thanks LucD, works great, however I'm still having an issue with my results. It appears that there are many VMs which are replicated, so I believe that may be why I'm getting results from multiple vCenters like this:

Name: MyVM
Cluster    : {MYCLUSTERDR, MYCLUSTER, MYCLUSTER3}

When exported to csv the field simply says System.Object[]

Can I and an additional qualifier to  -SearchRoot ? Something like -SearchRoot ((Get-Cluster -Name MyCluster).ExtensionData.MoRef) -and ([uri]$_.Client.ServiceUrl).MYVCENTER ?

The goal would be to further isolate my results to one vCenter while remaining connected to all of them.

[LucD]

You can use the Server parameter on the Get-Cluster cmdlet

Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -SearchRoot ((Get-Cluster -Name MyCluster -Server MyvCenter).ExtensionData.MoRef) -Property Parent, Config, Summary, Runtime

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[dbutch1976]

That worked, thank you.