Get-ScsiController Command | Vmware PowerCLI Reference

Get-ScsiController

This cmdlet retrieves the virtual SCSI controllers assigned to the specified HardDisk, VirtualMachine, Template, and Snapshot objects.

Syntax

Get-ScsiController
[ [-Template ] < Template[] > ]
[ [-Snapshot ] < Snapshot[] > ]
[-HardDisk < HardDisk[] > ]
[-Id < String[] > ]
[-Name < String[] > ]
[-ProgressAction < ActionPreference > ]
[-Server < VIServer[] > ]
[-VM < VirtualMachine[] > ]
[CommonParameters]

Parameters

Required Parameter Name Type Position Features Description
optional Template Template[] 1
  • pipeline
  • wildcards
 Filters the SCSI controllers by the virtual machine templates they belong to.
optional Snapshot Snapshot[] 2
  • pipeline
 Filters the SCSI controllers by the snapshots they belong to.
optional HardDisk HardDisk[] named
  • pipeline
 Filters the SCSI controllers by the hard disks they belong to.
optional Id String[] named
  • wildcards
 Specifies the IDs of the SCSI controllers 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 Name String[] named
  • wildcards
 Specifies the names of the SCSI controllers you want to retrieve.
optional ProgressAction ActionPreference named
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 VM VirtualMachine[] named
  • pipeline
  • wildcards
 Filters the SCSI controllers by the virtual machines they belong to.

Output

VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.VirtualDevice.ScsiController

Examples

Example 1 

Get-VM VM1, VM2 | Get-ScsiController

Retrieves the SCSI controllers of the VM1 and VM2 virtual machines.

Example 2 

Get-VM VM | Get-Snapshot Snapshot | Get-ScsiController

Retrieves the SCSI controllers of a virtual machine snapshot.

Example 3 

$disk = Get-VM VM | Get-HardDisk | Select -First 2

Get-ScsiController -HardDisk $disk

Retrieves the SCSI controllers of the first two hard disks of a virtual machine.

Related Commands

ScsiController

This cmdlet retrieves the virtual SCSI controllers assigned to the specified HardDisk, VirtualMachine, Template, and Snapshot objects.

This cmdlet creates a new SCSI controller.

This cmdlet modifies the specified SCSI controllers.

ScsiLun

This cmdlet retrieves the SCSI devices available on the vCenter Server system.

This cmdlet modifies the configuration of a SCSI device.

ScsiLunPath

This cmdlet retrieves the list of vmhba paths to a specified SCSI device.

This cmdlet configures a vmhba path to a SCSI device.