![]() NAME New-CustomAttribute SYNOPSIS Creates a new custom attribute. SYNTAX New-CustomAttribute [-Name] [-Confirm] [ DESCRIPTION Creates a new custom attribute. A custom attribute is a user-defined description field of one or more vSphere objec ts. PARAMETERS -Name Specify a name for the new custom attribute. Required? true Position? 1 Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false -TargetType Specify the type of the objects to which the new custom attribute applies. The valid values are VirtualMachine, ResourcePool, Folder, VMHost, Cluster, Datacenter, and $null. If the value is $null the custom attribute is gl obal and applies to all target types. Required? false Position? 2 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 -WhatIf Indicate that the cmdlet is run only to display the changes that would be made and actually no objects are modi fied. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false -Confirm If the value is $true, indicates that the cmdlet asks for confirmation before running. If the value is $false, the cmdlet runs without asking for user confirmation. Required? false Position? named Default value $true Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false 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 CustomAttribute[] NOTES -------------- Example 1 -------------- C:\PS>New-CustomAttribute -Name "CompanyName" -TargetType VMHost, VirtualMachine Creates a new custom attribute named CompanyName for the virtual machines and hosts on the server. RELATED LINKS Online version: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/PowerCLI501/html/New-CustomAttribute.html Get-CustomAttribute Remove-CustomAttribute Set-CustomAttribute Get-Annotation Set-Annotation |