Clone multiple VMs and append names

[mcamp001]

Hi,

  I see several examples of this, but I am struggling with the correct syntax to do the following:

• Clone multiple VM's from a text file.
  
  
• Append "-clone" to each name of the clones, example=vm1 clones as vm1-clone
  
  

I can use the following to do a simple clone:

New-VM -Name VM2 -VM VM1 -Datastore datastorename -vmhost hostname -DiskStorageFormat thin

but want to further automate the other pieces.

Any insight is appreicated!

[LucD · Accepted solution]

If your text file is setup as a CSV file, you can do something like this

Import-Csv C:\text.csv -UseCulture | %{

     New-VM -Name ($_.Name + "-clone") -VM $_.Name -Datastore datastorename -vmhost hostname -DiskStorageFormat thin

}

This assumes your CSV file looks something like this

Name

VM1

VM2

VM3

[mcamp001]

Luc, as always, Thank You..

+ "-clone" this is what I couldn't seem to get correct..

Cheers!