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NAME
Get-ResourcePool

SYNOPSIS
Retrieves the resource pools available on a vSphere server.

SYNTAX
Get-ResourcePool [-VM ] [-Location ] [[-Name] ] [-Id ] [-NoRec
ursion] [-Server ] []


DESCRIPTION
Retrieves the resource pools available on a vSphere server. The cmdlet returns a set of resource pools that corresp
ond to the filter criteria provided by the cmdlet parameters. Virtual machine hosts have a hidden resource pool nam
ed Resources, which is a parent of all resource pools of the host. To specify a server different from the default o
ne, use the -Server parameter.


PARAMETERS
-VM
Specify virtual machines to filter the resource pools that contain at least one of them.

Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue)
Accept wildcard characters? true

-Location
Specify vSphere container objects (such as folders, datacenters, and clusters) you want to search for resource
pools.

Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue)
Accept wildcard characters? true

-Name
Specify the names of the resource pools you want to retrieve.

Required? false
Position? 1
Default value
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? true

-Id
Specify the IDs of the resource pools you want to retrieve.

Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? true

-NoRecursion
Indicate that you want to disable the recursive behavior of the command.

Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false

-Server
Specify the vSphere servers on which you want to run the cmdlet. If no value is given to this parameter, the co
mmand runs on the default servers. For more information about default servers, see the description of Connect-V
IServer.

Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? true


This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,
ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,
OutBuffer and OutVariable. For more information, type,
"get-help about_commonparameters".

INPUTS



OUTPUTS
ResourcePool


NOTES




-------------- Example 1 --------------

C:\PS>$server = Connect-VIServer -Server 10.23.112.235

Get-ResourcePool -Server $server -VM VM


Retrieves information of the resource pool to which the virtual machine MS Win belongs.






RELATED LINKS
Online version: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/PowerCLI501/html/Get-ResourcePool.html
New-ResourcePool
Remove-ResourcePool
Set-ResourcePool
Move-ResourcePool