I am trying to get a custom attribute value for my datastore, but bumping into an issue with type incompatibility. Is there anything I am doing wrong below, and how to fix it?
PowerCLI C:\> $ds = Get-Datastore -Name YK PowerCLI C:\> $ds Name FreeSpaceGB CapacityGB ---- ----------- ---------- YK 14,528.467 14,901.750 PowerCLI C:\> Get-Annotation -Entity $ds -CustomAttribute ykcustattr_global Get-Annotation : Cannot bind parameter 'Entity'. Cannot convert the "YK" value of type "VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.DatastoreManagement.VmfsDatastoreImpl" to type "VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.Inventory.InventoryItem". At line:1 char:24 + Get-Annotation -Entity $ds -CustomAttribute ykcustattr_global + ~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-Annotation], ParameterBindingException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.GetAnnotation Note 1: I am able to get a custom attribute for a virtual machine, cluster and host. The problem is with the Datastore only.
Note 2: I guess the problem is that Get-Datastore returns Datastore object, while Get-Annotation expects InventoryItem object for -Entity. It is not clear if it is possible to do a cast/transformation or anything like that.
VMware vCenter version: 6.5
Thank you!
