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]]> By: Twitter Trackbacks for Virtual Black Hole » Blog Archive » Using PowerShell To Get Content From a File [thevirtualblackhole.com] on Topsy.com http://www.thevirtualblackhole.com/virtual-tech/using-powershell-to-get-content-from-a-file#comment-6992 Twitter Trackbacks for Virtual Black Hole » Blog Archive » Using PowerShell To Get Content From a File [thevirtualblackhole.com] on Topsy.com Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:05:03 +0000 http://www.thevirtualblackhole.com/?p=818#comment-6992 [...] Virtual Black Hole » Blog Archive » Using PowerShell To Get Content From a File www.thevirtualblackhole.com/virtual-tech/using-powershell-to-get-content-from-a-file – view page – cached On my quest for PowerShell knowledge I was working on a script to rescan HBA’s and then to list the paths to the datastores but, I only wanted the script to run on certain specific hosts at a time.... Read moreOn my quest for PowerShell knowledge I was working on a script to rescan HBA’s and then to list the paths to the datastores but, I only wanted the script to run on certain specific hosts at a time. Usually the rule is when you add storage or paths to an ESX host you would do this to all hosts in the cluster at the same time and could use PowerShell to list the members of a cluster to work with but I was exploring the option of creating a list of the ESX hosts that I wanted the script to run on and have that list saved in a file. Using the “get-content” cmdlet, I was able to do just that. The only other things was the “foreach” loop, when reading the content of a file, you need to use “foreach-object” cmdlet. Below is an example of the code to read the serverlist.txt file and then use that information to rescan and then refresh the HBA’s. View page [...] [...] Virtual Black Hole » Blog Archive » Using PowerShell To Get Content From a File http://www.thevirtualblackhole.com/virtual-tech/using-powershell-to-get-content-from-a-file – view page – cached On my quest for PowerShell knowledge I was working on a script to rescan HBA’s and then to list the paths to the datastores but, I only wanted the script to run on certain specific hosts at a time…. Read moreOn my quest for PowerShell knowledge I was working on a script to rescan HBA’s and then to list the paths to the datastores but, I only wanted the script to run on certain specific hosts at a time. Usually the rule is when you add storage or paths to an ESX host you would do this to all hosts in the cluster at the same time and could use PowerShell to list the members of a cluster to work with but I was exploring the option of creating a list of the ESX hosts that I wanted the script to run on and have that list saved in a file. Using the “get-content” cmdlet, I was able to do just that. The only other things was the “foreach” loop, when reading the content of a file, you need to use “foreach-object” cmdlet. Below is an example of the code to read the serverlist.txt file and then use that information to rescan and then refresh the HBA’s. View page [...]

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