Get datastore folders with PowerCLI

[vandreytrindade]

Hi,

I'm trying to search all the folders that exists on different datastores in my organization using PowerCLI.

The thing is that I found some commands to get the VMs folders.

But what about folders that are non VM related or VMs that are not in the inventory?

[LucD]

You can use the VimDatastore provider.

Something like

$ds = Get-Datastore -Name MyDS

New-PSDrive -Name TgtDS -Location $ds -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root '\' | Out-Null

Get-ChildItem -Path TgtDS: -Recurse

Remove-PSDrive -Name TgtDS

[vandreytrindade]

LucD,

Thanks for the fast reply!

It worked for local datastores, tried on a storage datastore and it shown me this error:

[LucD]

You have multiple datastores with the same name?

That means $ds is an array of datastore objects.

Try picking one of the entries for the New-PSDrive cmdlet

[vandreytrindade]

LucD,

No, I have the same datastore linked on multiple servers.

Tried with this one "$ds = Get-Datastore -Name VMDATA01 | select -First 1" and worked!

Thanks!