How do I retrieve the host of a template?

[Brucky]

Ladies and Gents,

I know I should know this but I am feeling slightly the worse for wear this morning and cannot get my head around this simple problem.

How do I retrieve the VM Host name of a template?

From a VM it is as easy as:

get-vm MY-VM | get-vmhost

but the following does not work

get-template MY-TEMPLATE | get-vmhost

There just does not appear to be a Host property on a template object or rather I cannot seem to get my mind to work out which property to hunt down. ( This is probably due to the small amount of blood in my alcohol stream ).

Any quick help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Steve

[LucD · Accepted solution]

A template is nothing more then a "special" virtual machine.

Unfortunately the Get-VMHost cmdlet doesn't seem to know how to handle this type of virtual machine.

So you have 2 choices:

1) convert the template to a virtual machine and then use the Get-VM | Get-VMHost method

2) find the host with the SDK VirtualMachine object

This is a sample script for the 2nd method

Get-Template | Select @{Name = "Template"; Expression = {$_.Name}},
                      @{Name = "Host"; Expression = {(Get-View (Get-Template -Name $_.Name | Get-View).Summary.Runtime.Host).Name}}

A 1 1/2 liner but then it's Friday after all

[Brucky]

LucD,

Thank you for this code it works perfectly.

Carter - (or anyone else from VMware that may be reading this) - Any chance of getting this altered in the next realease so that GET-TEMPLATE | GET-VMHOST works as with GET-VM | GET-VMHOST?

Regards

Brucky