PowerCLI

Hi Folks,

I was hoping for some guidance. I would like to be able to use powercli to check if individual VMs, or a group of VMs, are part of a DRS group.

I have been unable to find a one liner or script that will do this. Does anyone have one, or a link to one?

Much appreciated.

Is this providing the info you are looking for?

Thanks for the response.

This seems to be leaving the 'DRSGroup' and 'GroupType' fields blank. I have verified that the few servers I've tried are in a VM DRS Group. Any further thoughts?

Get-VM VM |

Select Name,@{N='DRSGroup';E={$script:group = Get-DrsClusterGroup -VM $_; $script:group.Name}},

    @{N='GroupType';E={$script:group.GroupType}}

Name                     DRSGroup      GroupType

----                          --------                ---------

VM                 

Which PowerCLI version are you using?

Can you do a Get-PowerCLIVersion

VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.3 Release 1 build 3737840

Also tried on ISE

PS C:\Windows\system32> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major  Minor  Build  Revision

-----  -----  -----  --------

5      0      10586  117    

That is the issue, you need at least PowerCLI 6.5R1 to have the Get-Get-DrsClusterGroup cmdlet.

Can you upgrade your PowerCLI?

If not, we can have a solution based on the DrsRule module.

I have upgraded my powercli but the Get-DrsClusterGroup cmdlet doesn't appear to be available. Can only see Get-DrsRule and Get-DrsRecommendation.

Can you check if you are the same module version as me?

If that doesn't return anything, do a

to see which version of the module you have

The Get-Command -Name Get-DrsClusterGroup didn't return anything.

It's a bit blurry but the Get-Module -Name VMware.VimAutomation.Core gave me a version of 6.5.0.2...

I download this version from: Download VMware vSphere

That's the difference, the last two releases only are available on the PowerShell Gallery.

See Welcome PowerCLI to the PowerShell Gallery – Install Process Updates

PS: although it works in PowerShell v4, it is advisable to go for PowerShell v5.1

That's it now, I've managed to get it working.

Thanks very much for your help on this, really appreciate it!