Which virtual machines are located on which virtualization node?

[Andr2210]

hi!
Is it possible to use PowerShell cmdlets to find out from the backup task which virtual machines are on which virtualization host?

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi,

Not directly from task session object, so you'd have to query infrastructure to see where a vm resides. Example for VMware:

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$sessions = Get-VBRBackupSession
$vms = Find-VBRViEntity -VMsAndTemplates
foreach ($session in $sessions) {
   if ($session.Platform.ToString() -eq "EVMware") {
   $taskSessions = Get-VBRTaskSession -Session $session
   foreach ($taskSession in $taskSessions) {
     $vm = $vms | where {$_.Name -eq "$($taskSession.Name)"}
     $vm | select Name, VMHostName
    }
   }
}

Best regards,
Oleg

[Andr2210]

Hi! Привет!
Get-VBRBackupSession Returns tasks performed during job sessions.

but at the time of launching the script, it may not be executed. I have your script hanging on the first line in a long wait. maybe the first line should have Get-VBRTaskSession ?

Во время запуска скрипта он не выполняется. У меня скрипт висит на первой строке в долгом ожидании. Возможно, в первой строке должно быть Get-VBRTaskSession ?

[david.domask]

Hi @@Andr2210,

Get-VBRBackupSession will retrieve all sessions, so that's likely why it's taking awhile.

Does this data need to come from the task sessions? COib objects returned by Get-VBRRestorePoint have this data also and it should be a faster call:

$job = Get-VBRJob -name 'name of job'
$backups = Get-VBRBackup -name $job.name
$RPs = Get-VBRRestorePoint -Backup $backups

PS C:\Users\Administrator> $RPs | Select VMName, @{n="ESXi Host";e={$_.Auxdata.esxname}}

VmName ESXi Host
------ ---------
ddom-tinyvm someesxihost.local
ddom-tinyvm someesxihost.local
ddom-tinyvm someesxihost.local
ddom-tinyvm someesxihost.local

Will it work for you to pull this information from the COib objects or it must be from Session data?