Developer mode does not work with vCenter as target

[Vinc3nt178]

Describe the bug

In developer mode, some $env variables are not correctly processed.

For example, this part:
#get user input for selected cluster
if($DeveloperMode){
$cluster = $cluster_report | Where-Object {$.Clustername -eq $env:cluster_name}
$data_center = $cluster_report | Where-Object {$.DCname -eq $env:dc_name}

Does not work because the reference is to the row, and not to the property
The cluster is:
$cluster = $cluster_report | Where-Object {$_.Clustername -eq $env:cluster_name}.Clustername

The datacenter is:
$data_center = $cluster_report | Where-Object {$_.DCname -eq $env:dc_name}.dcname

After fixing this I run into a similar issue with datastore selection, that was not easy to fix.

In general, please look at the developermode.

Reproduction steps

1.Fill $env variables as documented in the manual
2.Run new-holodeckconfig
3.Run new-holodeckinstance with -DeveloperMode param
4.Errors occur Cannot convert the "" value of type "System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject" to type "VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.Inventory.VIContainer".

Expected behavior

Developer mode should work with documented environment variables

Additional context

No response

[dhruv-tyagi-broadcom]

Thanks for pointing this out. We'll fix this one

[dhruv-tyagi-broadcom]

Can you share what issue you faced with datastore? Datastore selection should work as expected:

$datastore = ($datastore_report | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq $env:datastore_name})

[Vinc3nt178]

Can you share what issue you faced with datastore? Datastore selection should work as expected:

$datastore = ($datastore_report | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq $env:datastore_name})

I think it did not show the capacity of the datstore. If you have a new version of the precheck.psm1 I can check

[dhruv-tyagi-broadcom]

You can directly run the command Start-HoloDeckPreCheck in pwsh

[Vinc3nt178]

Please forget about the issue with selecting the datastore, I couldnt reproduce it.
For now I fixed the developermode by just pointing to the env variable.
You probably will have a better solution.

        $cluster = $env:cluster_name
        $data_center = $env:dc_name

[dhruv-tyagi-broadcom]

This is how we're solving it, pretty similar to what you're doing:

$selected_row = $cluster_report | Where-Object {$_.Clustername -eq $env:cluster_name}
if(-not $selected_row){
    Write-Log -Message "Cluster with name '$($env:cluster_name)' not found. Available clusters: $($cluster_report.Clustername -join ', ')" -Level "ERROR"
    throw "Exiting Function Select-TargetHostCluster - Cluster not found"
}
$cluster = $selected_row.Clustername
$data_center = $selected_row.DCname

[dhruv-tyagi-broadcom]

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