VMWare PowerShell script Get-VM where tag not like

Question

I am trying to run a VMWare powershell script where I grab all the VM's besides the ones with the tag "NO_SNAPSHOT"

To get the list of VM's I run this to remove the ones with the tag "NO_SNAPSHOT"

$VMs = Get-VM| Where-Object { $_.tag -notlike '*NO_SNAPSHOT*'}

However it doesn't work, it still lists all the VM's

noam · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-20 20:48:30Z

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Objects returned by Get-VM do not have a property called 'Tag'. Check out Get-TagAssignment.

edit - so you could do

$TAs = Get-TagAssignment | where {$_.tag.name -like "*no_snapshot*"}
$VMs = get-vm | where { $TAs.entity.name -notcontains $_.name }

Or if you have PowerCLI v5.8r1 you could do

$noSnap = get-vm -tag *no_snapshot*
$vms = get-vm | where {$noSnap.name -notcontains $_.name}

answered Feb 20, 2015 at 19:29

noam

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How would I do want I want though?