Annotation Category

Cmdlets are usually implemented around resource operations. The four basic operations are CREATE, READ, UPDATE and DELETE. This set of operations is known as CRUD. Most of the cmdlets support CRUD which are respectively cmdlets that start with the New/Get/Set/Remove cmdlet verbs but they also may have additional operations

Step 1: Retrieve a object by running a Get command

You can READ objects by using Get-Annotation cmdlet. See example below:

# Retrieves the annotation of the PhysicalLocation custom attribute for Cluster.

Get-Cluster Cluster | Get-Annotation -CustomAttribute PhysicalLocation

Step 2 : Run commands from the CRUD group

You can UPDATE objects by using Set-Annotation cmdlet. See example below:

# Modifies the annotation of the PhysicalLocation custom attribute for the host stored in the $vmhost variable.

Set-Annotation -Entity $vmhost -CustomAttribute "PhysicalLocation" -Value Office