Getting VM by name

[MariusRoma]

I apologize for the very basic question.

I created a script by copying parts from forum and blogs.

I need to get a VM object by the name.

I used two different syntaxes

$Nome_VM = "MyServer"

$vm = Get-VM -Name $Nome_VM

$vm.name

If I ussue following commands using $vm it looks that some data are missing.

A different syntax is:

$Nome_VM = "MyServer"

$vm = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{"Name"=$Nome_VM}

$vm.name

It looks to work better and following commands work fine.

However if there are more VMs with similar names I get all of them:

$vm.name

MyServer

MyServer_001

Myserver_002

How can I use the second syntax and get only one VM?

Even better, what is the best syntax to get a VM from the name?

Regards

marius

[LucD]

The Filter parameter on the Get-View cmdlet interprets the righthand side operator as a Regular Expression (RegEx).

So you will have to use RegEx syntax to get an exact match.

The ^ indicates that the match should start at the beginning of the string in Name, and the $ indicates that the match should stop at the end.

For example like this

$Nome_VM = "MyServer"

$vm = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{"Name"="^$Nome_VM$"}

$vm.name