Get-Datastore

This cmdlet retrieves the datastores available on a vCenter Server system. Returns a set of datastores that correspond to the filter criteria defined by the cmdlet parameters. To specify a server different from the default one, use the Server parameter.

Syntax

Get-Datastore

-Id < String[] >

[-ProgressAction < ActionPreference > ]

[-Refresh ]

[-Server < VIServer[] > ]

[CommonParameters]

Parameters

Required	Parameter Name	Type	Position	Features	Description
required	Id	String[]	named	wildcards	Specifies the IDs of the datastores you want to retrieve. Note: When a list of values is specified for the Id parameter, the returned objects would have an ID that matches exactly one of the string values in that list.
optional	ProgressAction	ActionPreference	named
optional	Refresh	SwitchParameter	named		Indicates that the cmdlet first refreshes the storage system information and then retrieves the specified datastores.
optional	Server	VIServer[]	named	wildcards	Specifies the vCenter Server systems on which you want to run the cmdlet. If no value is provided or $null value is passed to this parameter, the command runs on the default servers. For more information about default servers, see the description of Connect-VIServer.

Required	Parameter Name	Type	Position	Features	Description
optional	Location	VIObject[]	named		Specifies vSphere container objects that you want to search for datastores. This parameter accepts Datacenter, Folder, and DatastoreCluster objects.
optional	Name	String[]	named	wildcards	Specifies the names of the datastores you want to retrieve.
optional	ProgressAction	ActionPreference	named
optional	Refresh	SwitchParameter	named		Indicates that the cmdlet first refreshes the storage system information and then retrieves the specified datastores.
optional	RelatedObject	DatastoreRelatedObjectBase[]	named	pipeline	Specifies objects to retrieve one or more Datastore objects that are related to them. This parameter accepts vSphere VirtualMachine, VMHost, Datacenter, DatastoreCluster, Cluster, Folder, HardDisk, and OMResource objects, as well as vCloud Datastore objects.
optional	Server	VIServer[]	named	wildcards	Specifies the vCenter Server systems on which you want to run the cmdlet. If no value is provided or $null value is passed to this parameter, the command runs on the default servers. For more information about default servers, see the description of Connect-VIServer.
optional	Tag	Tag[]	named	wildcards	Returns only the datastores that are associated with any of the specified tags.

Output

VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.DatastoreManagement.Datastore

Examples

Example 1

Get-VMHost -Name VMHost1, VMHost2 | Get-Datastore

Retrieves datastores from the VMHost1 and VMHost2 hosts.

Example 2

Get-Datastore -Name MyDatastore* -Location MyDatacenter

Retrieves the datastores from the MyDatacenter datacenter that have names starting with MyDatastore.

Example 3

$vm1 = Get-VM -Name myVM1$vm2 = Get-VM -Name myVM2Get-Datastore -RelatedObject $vm1, $vm2

Retrieves the datastores for a specified array of virtual machines.

Example 4

$myVMHost = Get-VMHost -Name MyVMHostGet-Datastore -VMHost $myVMHost -Refresh

Refreshes the host storage system and retrieves its datastores.

Related Commands

Datastore

Get-Datastore

This cmdlet retrieves the datastores available on a vCenter Server system.

Move-Datastore

This cmdlet moves datastores from one location to another.

New-Datastore

This cmdlet creates a new datastore.

Remove-Datastore

This cmdlet removes the specified datastores from their locations.

Set-Datastore

This cmdlet modifies the properties of the specified datastore.

DatastoreCluster

Get-DatastoreCluster

This cmdlet retrieves datastore clusters.

New-DatastoreCluster

This cmdlet creates a new datastore cluster.

Remove-DatastoreCluster

This cmdlet deletes the specified datastore clusters.

Set-DatastoreCluster

This cmdlet modifies the configuration of the specified datastore cluster.

DatastoreItem

Copy-DatastoreItem

This cmdlet copies items between datastores and between a datastore and a local file system provider.