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[VeeDubbs]

Hi all -

I'm using this Powershell script to send me an e-mail every Monday morning about snapshots in my VM environment -- very handy! However, we use Veeam for backup and replication, and all of my VMs are replicated to an off-site ESXi host with _replica after their name. All of the VMs with _replica have snapshots that I do not care about. How can I modify this script to ignore the snaps from VMs that have _replica in their name?

Thanks!

Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
connect-viserver -server $viserver -protocol https -user $viuser -password $vipass

$found_error=0
$error_count=0
$body="The following Virtual Machine(s) contain a Snapshot:`n"
$body2="Entire Log:`n"

$virtual_machines=Get-VM
foreach ($virtual_machine in $virtual_machines) {
	$snapshot=Get-Snapshot -VM $virtual_machine
	
	if ($snapshot) {
		$found_error=1
	        $error_count++

		Write-Host $virtual_machine.Name ": Snapshot found!"
		$body+="`t"+ $virtual_machine.Name +": Snapshot found! Snapshot name: "+ $snapshot.Name +"`n"
		$body2+="`t"+ $virtual_machine.Name +": Snapshot found! Snapshot name: "+ $snapshot.Name +"`n"
	} else {
		Write-Host $virtual_machine.Name ": Snapshot not found."
	        $body2+="`t"+ $virtual_machine.Name +": Snapshot not found.`n"
	}
}

if ($found_error) {
    $subject=$client +": "+ $error_count +" Snapshot(s) found!"
    $smtp = new-object System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtp_host)
    $message = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage "${from}", "${to}", "${subject}", "${body}`n${body2}"
    $smtp.Send($message)
}

 

[PTNL]

I'm not familiar with the VMware object model, but .... Wherever the VM's name (as a string) resides, you can do a ".Contains()" operation on it to let you know whether the name has a particular substring located in it:

$d = $a.Contains("ript")

The resulting boolean can be evaluated, which (given your requirements) would tell you whether to ignore that name or proceed with the work in the foreach loop.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692804.aspx