Learning PowerCLI - Second Edition

Retrieving clusters

To retrieve one or more of the clusters available on your vCenter Server system, you can use the Get-Cluster cmdlet. The syntax of the Get-Cluster cmdlet is as follows. The first parameter set is for retrieving clusters in a specific location such as a data center or a folder:

Get-Cluster [[-Name] <String[]>] [-Location <VIContainer[]>]
    [-NoRecursion] [-Tag <Tag[]>] [-Server <VIServer[]>]
    [<CommonParameters>]

The second parameter set is for retrieving clusters by a related object.

Get-Cluster [-RelatedObject] <ClusterRelatedObjectBase[]>
    [<CommonParameters>]

The third parameter set is to retrieve clusters containing specific virtual machines or ESXi hosts:

Get-Cluster [[-Name] <String[]>] [-VM <VirtualMachine[]>] [-VMHost <VMHost[]>] ...