To save time and efforts, you can use Get-View to retrieve PowerCLI views from previously retrieved view objects.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are connected
to a
vCenter
Server
system.
Procedure
1 | Get a view of the VM2 virtual machine by name. $vm2 = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{"Name" = "VM2"}
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2 | Populate the $vmhostView object. $vmhostView = Get-View -Id $vm2.Runtime.Host
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3 | Retrieve the runtime information for the $vmhostView object. $vmhostView.Summary.Runtime
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