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PowerCLI – Get All VM Details from get-task

by Jon

I’ve been working on a project that uses the -runasync parameter on the move-vm cmdlet. The obvious problem with running jobs asynchronously is that you lose the ability to determine the status of whatever task as soon as you submit it.

I ran into a challenge on this project where I needed to validate some details from the job that was submitted asynchronously. It was more difficult and annoying than I thought it would be, but I managed to get a function together that can get a bunch of information.

The script assumes a pre-existing connection to vCenter and accepts the parameters below.

  1. Status_to_check – with a default value of “Initiate vMotion Receive operation”
  2. vCenter – the FQDN of the vCenter server. I added this in case you are connected to multiple vCenter servers.
function Test-vCenterTasks
{
    param(
        $status_to_check = "Initiate vMotion receive operation",
        $vcenter
    )
    
    $tasks = get-task -Server $vcenter
    $vmotions=$tasks | ? { $_.name -eq $status_to_check}
    $rs = @()
    foreach ($vmotion in $vmotions)
    {
        $vminflight = $vmotion.ExtensionData.Info.EntityName
        $vmobj = get-vm $vminflight -Server $vcenter
        $cluster = $vmobj | Get-Cluster -Server $vcenter

        $obj = New-Object –typename PSObject
        $obj | Add-Member –membertype NoteProperty –name VM_Name –value $vmobj.name
        $obj | Add-Member –membertype NoteProperty –name VM_Cluster –value $cluster.name
        $obj | Add-Member –membertype NoteProperty –name StartTime –value $vmotion.StartTime
        $obj | Add-Member –membertype NoteProperty –name Progress –value $vmotion.PercentComplete
        $obj | Add-Member –membertype NoteProperty –name Description –value $vmotion.Description
        $rs += $obj
    }

    return $rs
}

Test-vCenterTasks -vcenter "vcenter-server-fqdn"

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