Populate a View Object with Get-View

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"}

2. Populate the $vmhostView object.

   $vmhostView = Get-View -Id $vm2.Runtime.Host

3. Retrieve the runtime information for the $vmhostView object.

   $vmhostView.Summary.Runtime