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Add-CVVirtualMachineGroupContent

This commandlet (cmdlet) functions only for VMware, Hyper-V and vCloud.

The Add-CVVirtualMachineGroupContent cmdlet allows you to preview the content of a VM group and creates clients from the result set.

Before you can use this cmdlet, you must log on to your CommCell environment using the Connect-CVServer cmdlet. For more information, see Connecting to a CommCell Environment with PowerShell.

Syntax

Add-CVVirtualMachineGroupContent -SubclientObject Object -EntityType Host | Datastore | VMName | VMNamePattern | GuestOS | GuestDNSHostname | PoweredState | Notes | TemplateState | Tag | TagCategory [-PoweredState Off | On | Other] [-TemplateState Boolean] [-MatchingPattern Contains | Equals | StartsWith | EndsWith] [-DisplayName String] [-VMName String] [-CreateClientsForDiscoveredVms] [-Force] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] [CommonParameters]

Required Parameters

Parameter

Description

Data type

Values

Accepts pipeline input?

Accepts wildcard characters?

Type of parameter

-SubclientObject

An object that represents a VM group that you want to preview the content for.

Object

Yes, by:

  • Value

  • Property name

No

Named

-EntityType

The entity type of the virtual server.

Valid values are:

  • Host

  • Datastore

  • VMName

  • VMNamePattern

  • GuestOS

  • GuestDNSHostname

  • PoweredState

  • Notes

  • TemplateState

  • Tag

  • TagCategory

No

No

Named

Optional Parameters

Commvault Parameters

Parameter

Description

Data type

Values

Accepts pipeline input?

Accepts wildcard characters?

Type of parameter

–PoweredState

The state of the entity type.

Valid values are:

  • On

  • Off

  • Other

No

No

Named

–TemplateState

The template state of the entity type.

Boolean

Valid values are:

  • True (default)

  • False

No

No

Named

–MatchingPattern

The matching pattern to perform a search on the Display Name parameter.

Valid values are:

  • Contains

  • Equals (default)

  • StartsWith

  • EndsWith

Yes, by:

  • Value

  • Property name

No

Named

–DisplayName

The term used to perform a search.

String

No

No

Named

-VMName

The GUID of the VM.

String

No

No

Named

-CreateClientsForDiscoveredVms

The toggle key that indicates whether to create clients for discovered VMs. Before you create clients, preview discovery results.

Switch Parameter

The default value is False.

No

No

Named

Microsoft PowerShell Parameters

You can use the following Microsoft PowerShell parameters:

  • Debug

  • ErrorAction

  • ErrorVariable

  • OutBuffer

  • OutVariable

  • PipelineVariable

  • Verbose

  • WarningAction

  • WarningVariable

  • Force

  • Confirm

  • WhatIf

Note

Only a few cmdlets support Force, Confirm, and WhatIf parameters.

For more information, see "About Common Parameters" in the Microsoft PowerShell documentation.

Input

This cmdlet does not support input.

Output

A PSCustomObject that contains VM discovery results.

Example

This example previews the content of the GRS-VMGroup VM with Datastore entity type.

Get-CVSubclient -Name GRS-VMGroup1 -ClientName accounting.mycompany.com | Add-CVVirtualMachineGroupContent -EntityType Datastore -MatchingPattern EndsWith -DisplayName DS1
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