Writing a Virtual Machine (VM) report the other day to gather a list of VMs that conform to a known naming standard.<\/p>\n
\r\n\r\n$vmlist = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name -Filter @{"Name"="[a-z1-9]ap1"} | Select Name\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\nThen when I did a count to confirm I found that I had many VMs than I expected. Upon investigation I found that this actually returns all Templates as well. So then how do a filter the templates out. The following filter will do this.<\/p>\n
\r\n\r\n-Filter @{"Config.Template"="false"}<\/pre>\nHow do I combine these? Using an -and inside and outside the filter block did not work.<\/p>\n
Semi colon is the answer. So my query becomes.<\/p>\n
\r\n\r\n$vmlist = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name -Filter @{"Name"="[a-z1-9]ap1"; "Config.Template"="false"} | Select Name\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\nThe output of this command is an AND. Combing both of these filters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"