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PowerShell: Find Guest VMs Associated with a Certain Storage Path

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# findGuestMvsByStorage.ps1

$storagePath='\\SMBSERVER009'

function getAllGuestVms($clusterName){
  try{
    Import-Module FailoverClusters
    $clusterName=if($clusterName){
      $clustername
    }else{
      (get-cluster).name
    }
    $allHyperVHosts={(Get-ClusterNode -Cluster $clusterName|?{ $_.State -eq "Up" }).Name | %{$_.ToLower()}}.Invoke()
    $allVms=foreach ($hyperVHost in $allHyperVHosts){
      invoke-command -computername $hyperVHost -scriptblock{
        write-host "Getting VM List on $env:computername";
        Get-VM |select-object Name,State,Status,Path
      }|select-object * -ExcludeProperty RunspaceId,PSShowComputerName
    }
    if($allVms){return $allVms}else{return $null}
  }catch{
    write-warning $_
    return $false
  }
}
function findGuestMvsByStorage{
  param (
    $storagePath,
    $clusterName=$null
    )
  try{
      $allVms=getAllGuestVms $clusterName
      if(!$allVms){return $null}
      $matchedStorage=$allVms|?{$_.Path -like "*$storagePath*"}
      $online=$matchedStorage|?{$_.State.Value -like 'Running*'}
      $offline=$matchedStorage|?{$_.State.Value -notlike 'Running*'}
      if($online){
        write-host "There are $($online.count) online VMs associated with '$storagePath'"
      }
      if($offline){
        write-host "There are $($offline.count) offlined VMs associated with '$storagePath'"
      }
      if($matchedStorage){
        $matchedStorage
        return $matchedStorage
      }else{
        write-host "'$storagePath' is not being associated with any VM in cluster '$((get-cluster).Name)'"
        return $null
      }
  }catch{
      write-warning $_
      return $false
  }
}

$result=findGuestMvsByStorage $storagePath
$result|select Name,State,PSComputerName
# Sample Output
PS C:\Windows\system32> $result=findGuestMvsByStorage $storagePath
Getting VM List on HYV01
Getting VM List on HYV02
Getting VM List on HYV03
Getting VM List on HYV04
Getting VM List on HYV05
Getting VM List on HYV06
Getting VM List on HYV07
Getting VM List on HYV08
Getting VM List on HYV09
Getting VM List on HYV10
Getting VM List on HYV11
Getting VM List on HYV12
Getting VM List on HYV13
Getting VM List on HYV14
Getting VM List on HYV15
Getting VM List on HYV16
Getting VM List on HYV17
Getting VM List on HYV18
Getting VM List on HYV19
There are 6 online VMs associated with '\\FILESERVER009'
There are 16 offlined VMs associated with '\\FILESERVER009'

PS C:\Windows\system32> $result|select Name,State
Name                           State
----                           -----
TESTVM01                       OffCritical
TESTVM02                       Off
TESTVM03                       OffCritical
TESTVM04                       OffCritical
TESTVM05                       RunningCritical

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