throwing a note together for my failing memory. while running a command to retrieve some values from esx, chris and I ran into a weird problem. the following command would fail to retrieve the scsi lun information where the model equals symmetrix. Get-VMHost myESXHost | Get-ScsiLun | where { $_.Model -eq "SYMMETRIX" } while this failed, it worked using a wildcard search. Get-VMHost myESXHost | Get-ScsiLun | where { $_.Model -like "*sym*" } the most logical thing we decided was funky characters -- and most likely whitespace. this is what I came up with to find the character count in the model: (Get-VMHost myESXHost | Get-ScsiLun | where { $_.Model -like "*sym*" } | Select-object -First 1).model | Measure-Object -Character
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