Working with vSphere folders

In a VMware vSphere environment, you can use folders to organize your infrastructure. In the vSphere web client, you can create folders in the Hosts and Clusters, VMs and Templates, Storage, and Networking inventories. The following screenshot shows an example of folders in the VMs and Templates inventory:

You can browse through these folders using the PowerCLI Inventory Provider. PowerCLI also has a set of cmdlets to work with these folders: Get-Folder, Move-Folder, New-Folder, Remove-Folder, and Set-Folder.

You can use the Get-Folder cmdlet to get a list of all of your folders:

PowerCLI C:\> Get-Folder

Otherwise, you can select specific folders by their name using the following command line:

PowerCLI C:\> Get-Folder -Name "Accounting"

All folders are organized in a tree structure under the root folder. You can retrieve the root folder with the following command:

PowerCLI C:\> Get-Folder -NoRecursion


    Name                           Type
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