Get-VM | Snapshots | VM, Name -> missing VM-name

[SirHaschke]

Hi,
Get-VM | Snapshots | VM, Name i get this output.

Why is the VM-Name missing?

Regards
Dennis

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[rkabelich]

Hi Dennis, 

Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Select-Object -Property VM,Name

This should work for you. 

If you want to get a file output with some more properties, use this script and replace the data inside angle brackets (remove angle brackets too) with your data. 

Disconnect-VIServer * -Confirm:$false

$VIServer = "<your vcenter url>"
Connect-VIServer $VIServer 

Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Select-Object -Property VM,Name,Id,Description,Created,SizeGB | sort -Property "Created" | export-csv -force -NoType $fullPath -delimiter ';'

Disconnect-VIServer * -confirm:$false

exit

Regards
Ronald 

[ITSavant]

And if you have a lot of VMs, do this, it will run 10x faster:

Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name, Snapshot | ?{$_.Snapshot} | Get-VIObjectByView | Get-Snapshot | Select-Object VM, Name

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[rkabelich]

Thanks for the improvement! 

It can of course also be used in the script. 

Get-VIObjectByView should be replaced by Get-VIObjectByVIView

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[ganapa2000]

Hi Dennis,

Try as below

Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Select @{N='VMName';E={$_.VM.Name}}, Name, Created | ft -auto

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[SirHaschke]

Hi All,
thanks. But nothing works for me :-(

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[rkabelich]

Try and paste output please. 

Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | fl

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[ITSavant]

can you post the output of Get-Snapshot | Select *
without the Named Expressions so we can see what is happening

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[ITSavant]

I just tested on several vCenters and had the same results, Get-Snapshot is not populating the vm property

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[ITSavant]

This does work, albeit, shouldn't need to make a secondary call

Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name, Snapshot | ?{$_.Snapshot} | Get-VIObjectByVIView | Get-Snapshot | Select-Object @{n='VM';e={(Get-View -Id $_.VMID -Server $_.Uid.Split('@')[1].Split(':')[0] -Property Name).Name}}, Name

Silly to have to do it this way but it works

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[SirHaschke]

This is a part of the output:

Description       : snappi report
Created           : 06.01.2026 15:40:25
Quiesced          : False
PowerState        : PoweredOff
VM                : 
VMId              : VirtualMachine-vm-176947
Parent            : 
ParentSnapshotId  : 
ParentSnapshot    : 
Children          : 
SizeMB            : 
SizeGB            : 
IsCurrent         : True
IsReplaySupported : False
ExtensionData     : VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineSnapshotTree
Name              : VM Snapshot 1/6/2026, 3:39:30 PM
Id                : VirtualMachineSnapshot-snapshot-181660
Uid               : /VIServer=vsphere.local\administrator@vcenter1:443/Snapshot=VirtualMachineSnapshot-snapshot-181660/

Description       : Update
Created           : 09.12.2025 08:24:47
Quiesced          : False
PowerState        : PoweredOn
VM                : 
VMId              : VirtualMachine-vm-149647
Parent            : 
ParentSnapshotId  : 
ParentSnapshot    : 
Children          : 
SizeMB            : 
SizeGB            : 
IsCurrent         : True
IsReplaySupported : False
ExtensionData     : VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineSnapshotTree
Name              : VM Snapshot 12/9/2025, 8:24:42 AM
Id                : VirtualMachineSnapshot-snapshot-177107
Uid               : /VIServer=vsphere.local\administrator@vcenter1:443/Snapshot=VirtualMachineSnapshot-snapshot-177107/

Description       : 15.12.25_Umzug_Green_Zone
Created           : 15.12.2025 08:05:52
Quiesced          : False
PowerState        : PoweredOn
VM                : 
VMId              : VirtualMachine-vm-152876
Parent            : 
ParentSnapshotId  : 
ParentSnapshot    : 
Children          : 
SizeMB            : 
SizeGB            : 
IsCurrent         : True
IsReplaySupported : False
ExtensionData     : VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineSnapshotTree
Name              : VM-Snapshot 15.12.2025, 08:05:47
Id                : VirtualMachineSnapshot-snapshot-178082
Uid               : /VIServer=vsphere.local\administrator@vcenter1:443/Snapshot=VirtualMachineSnapshot-snapshot-178082/

Description       : 
Created           : 26.11.2025 16:59:21
Quiesced          : False
PowerState        : PoweredOn
VM                : 
VMId              : VirtualMachine-vm-113055
Parent            : 
ParentSnapshotId  : 
ParentSnapshot    : 
Children          : 
SizeMB            : 
SizeGB            : 
IsCurrent         : True
IsReplaySupported : False
ExtensionData     : VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineSnapshotTree
Name              : VM-Snapshot 26.11.2025, 16:59:15
Id                : VirtualMachineSnapshot-snapshot-175052
Uid               : /VIServer=vsphere.local\administrator@vcenter1:443/Snapshot=VirtualMachineSnapshot-snapshot-175052/

Description       : 
Created           : 15.12.2025 08:07:29
Quiesced          : False
PowerState        : PoweredOff
VM                : 
VMId              : VirtualMachine-vm-170772
Parent            : 
ParentSnapshotId  : 
ParentSnapshot    : 
Children          : 
SizeMB            : 
SizeGB            : 
IsCurrent         : True
IsReplaySupported : False
ExtensionData     : VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineSnapshotTree
Name              : VM-Snapshot 15.12.2025, 08:07:27
Id                : VirtualMachineSnapshot-snapshot-178081
Uid               : /VIServer=vsphere.local\administrator@vcenter1:443/Snapshot=VirtualMachineSnapshot-snapshot-178081/

Description       : 
Created           : 15.12.2025 08:07:22
Quiesced          : False
PowerState        : PoweredOn
VM                : 
VMId              : VirtualMachine-vm-170771
Parent            : 
ParentSnapshotId  : 
ParentSnapshot    : 
Children          : 
SizeMB            : 
SizeGB            : 
IsCurrent         : True
IsReplaySupported : False
ExtensionData     : VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineSnapshotTree
Name              : VM-Snapshot 15.12.2025, 08:07:20
Id                : VirtualMachineSnapshot-snapshot-178084
Uid               : /VIServer=vsphere.local\administrator@vcenter1:443/Snapshot=VirtualMachineSnapshot-snapshot-178084/

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[rkabelich]

I created a new snap in our test environment and all the data is visible: 

PS U:\> Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | fl

Description       : test
Created           : 07.01.2026 08:58:32
Quiesced          : False
PowerState        : PoweredOff
VM                : TestESXInstall
VMId              : VirtualMachine-vm-719876
Parent            :
ParentSnapshotId  :
ParentSnapshot    :
Children          :
SizeMB            : 1,0199260711669921875
SizeGB            : 0,0009960215538740158081054688
IsCurrent         : True
IsReplaySupported : False
ExtensionData     : VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineSnapshotTree
Id                : VirtualMachineSnapshot-snapshot-726880
Name              : VM Snapshot 7.1.2026, 08:58:26

What versions do you use? vCenter,Powershell etc? 

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[SirHaschke]

Then i get this error:

Versions:

OS: Windows Server 2025.
vCenter 8.0.3.00600

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[rkabelich]

Okay, then I'm stumped. Your versions are newer than ours and it does not work.

PS U:\> $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.20348.4294
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   10.0.20348.4294
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

PS U:\> get-module | ft -AutoSize

ModuleType Version         Name
---------- -------         ----
Manifest   3.1.0.0         Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Manifest   3.0.0.0         Microsoft.PowerShell.Security
Manifest   3.1.0.0         Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
Manifest   3.0.0.0         Microsoft.WSMan.Management
Script     0.0             onecli_completion
Script     2.0.0           PSReadline
Script     7.0.3.18730922  VMware.Vim
Script     12.4.0.18627057 VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core
Script     12.4.0.18627061 VMware.VimAutomation.Common
Script     12.4.0.18627056 VMware.VimAutomation.Core
Script     12.4.0.18627054 VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk

May be it's a bug. I hope somebody else has a hint, I'm out of ideas. :-/ 

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[SirHaschke]

The strange thing is i had run the script on a Server 2022 with VIM 7.0.xx.
On this server it works fine.
But i will migrate the server to a new one ( Server 2025) and it doesn't work.

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[rkabelich]

Ok, seems to be a bug in vim 8 or 9. 
Until it's solved you should leave one 2022 Server to run your scripts. 

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[SirHaschke]

I had downgrade VIM to the same version like on the old server (2022).
But it doesn't work too. What ever it is :-(

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[ITSavant]

Sorry I typed from memory, had a typo, try this:

Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name, Snapshot | ?{$_.Snapshot} | Get-VIObjectByVIView | Get-Snapshot | Select-Object @{n='VM';e={(Get-View -Id $_.VMID -Server $_.Uid.Split('@')[1].Split(':')[0] -Property Name).Name}}, Name

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[ITSavant]

I have noticed that depending on other modules loaded/available to your PowerShell, they may load assemblies newer than the VMware versions, creating conflicts. Since Broadcom bought VMware PowerCLI seems to be falling behind in development. On some of my systems Get-View ($xxx.ExtensionData is the same thing) return no data, and I tracked it down to conflicting assemblies, causing the older VMware versions in PowerCli to loose.

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[SirHaschke]

Yes, this works fine:

Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name, Snapshot | ?{$_.Snapshot} | Get-VIObjectByVIView | Get-Snapshot | Select-Object @{n='VM';e={(Get-View -Id $_.VMID -Server $_.Uid.Split('@')[1].Split(':')[0] -Property Name).Name}}, Name

I have a script at the attachment.....is it possible to integrate this in the script?

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New-VMwareSnapshotReport.ps1   9 KB 1 version