## PowerCLI Reference

# Get-ScsiController

## Synopsis

This cmdlet retrieves the virtual SCSI controllers assigned to the specified HardDisk, VirtualMachine, Template, and Snapshot objects.

Syntax

Get-ScsiController [-Id <String[]>] [-HardDisk <HardDisk[]>] [-Server <VIServer[]>] [[-VM] <VirtualMachine[]>] [[-Template] <Template[]>] [[-Snapshot] <Snapshot[]>] [-Name <String[]>] [<CommonParameters>]

Related Commands

Online version
New-ScsiController
Set-ScsiController

Detailed Description

This cmdlet retrieves the virtual SCSI controllers assigned to the specified HardDisk, VirtualMachine, Template, and Snapshot objects.

Parameters

Name | Type | Description | Required? | Pipeline Input | Default Value
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
VM | VirtualMachine[] | Filters the SCSI controllers by the virtual machines they belong to. | false | true (ByValue)
Template | Template[] | Filters the SCSI controllers by the virtual machine templates they belong to. | false | true (ByValue)
Snapshot | Snapshot[] | Filters the SCSI controllers by the snapshots they belong to. | false | true (ByValue)
HardDisk | HardDisk[] | Filters the SCSI controllers by the hard disks they belong to. | false | true (ByValue)
Id | String[] | Specifies the IDs of the SCSI controllers you want to retrieve. Note: When a list of values is specified for the Id parameter, the returned objects would have an ID that matches exactly one of the string values in that list. | false | false
Name | String[] | Specifies the names of the SCSI controllers you want to retrieve. | false | false
Server | VIServer[] | Specifies the vCenter Server systems on which you want to run the cmdlet. If no value is passed to this parameter, the command runs on the default servers. For more information about default servers, see the description of Connect-VIServer. | false | false

Return Type

Zero or more ScsiController objects

Notes

Examples

-------------- Example 1 --------------

    Get-VM VM1, VM2 | Get-ScsiController

Retrieves the SCSI controllers of the VM1 and VM2 virtual machines.

-------------- Example 2 --------------

    Get-VM VM | Get-Snapshot Snapshot | Get-ScsiController

Retrieves the SCSI controllers of a virtual machine snapshot.

-------------- Example 3 --------------

    $disk = Get-VM VM | Get-HardDisk | Select -First 2

    Get-ScsiController -HardDisk $disk

Retrieves the SCSI controllers of the first two hard disks of a virtual machine.

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