How do I get hostname from fqdn

[Ryzz]

I'm sure this has to be reasonably easy, however I haven't had much luck in figuring it out myself.

Basically I've got a simple script that gets all the hosts from a cluster, and rename's the first datastore, to ServerName_Boot, however when I this, I can't find a way truncate the fqdn to just hostname. In this instance my hostname IS exactly 14 characters if this helps.

Thx in advance!

[LucD]

This should do the trick.

$fqdn.Split('.')[0]

[Ryzz]

Hi LucD,

Thanks for the feedback, i tried what you suggested, however im obviously doing something wrong.

I put the syntax into a write-host loop to test it first, and get the following error:

Method invocation failed because [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory

.ClusterImpl] doesn't contain a method named 'Split'.

At line:3 char:31

+ $Shortname = $VMHostname.Split <<<< (1.1)[0]

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (Split:String) [], RuntimeExce

   ption

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound

Here is my sample script.

$ClusterHost = Get-Cluster "Test_G" | Get-VMHost - Name
ForEach ($VMhostname in $ClusterHost) 
{


$Shortname = $VMHostname.Split(1.1)[0]
write-host $Shortname

}

# $null = Get-VMhost $VMhostname | Get-Datastore | Set-Datastore -Name {$Shortname.Split('.')[0]}boot;

Thanks

[sneddo]

You're trying to run split on the host object, not on the name itself.

Just update it to $Shortname = $VMHostname.Name.Split('.')[0] 

[LucD]

You should take the Name property, like this

Get-Cluster "Test_G" | Get-VMHost |

Select @{N="FQDN";E={$_.Name}},@{N="Shortname";E={$_.Name.Split('.')[0]}}

[Ryzz]

Thanks all,

This is the end script that renames all Datastores with the name Datastore* to <hostname>_boot.

$ClusterHost = Get-Cluster "Test_G" | Get-VMHost
ForEach ($VMhostname in $ClusterHost) 
{


$Shortname = $VMHostname.Name.Split('.')[0] + "_Boot"


$null = Get-VMhost $VMhostname | Get-Datastore Datastore* | Set-Datastore -Name $Shortname
}
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "Finished Renaming Datastores"