Start-Job output in CSV format - powershell

Question

How to get the jobs output in an CSV format. When I execute the command below, I get the output on the screen, but when I export it to CSV it does not have the same format.
$wmidiskblock = {
Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $args[0] -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter "DeviceID='C:'" |
Select-Object Size, Freespace
(Test-Connection -ComputerName $args[0] | Select-Object -ExpandProperty IPV4Address) |
Select-Object IPAddressToString -Unique
Get-Service -ComputerName $args[0] | ? {
($_.DisplayName -match "VMWARE") -and
($_.Name -notmatch "mbcs") -and
($_.Name -notmatch "vmvss") -and
($_.Name -notmatch "vmware-autodeploy-waiter") -and
($_.Name -notmatch "vmware-network-coredump") -and
($_.Name -notmatch "VMWareNetworkCoredumpWebserve") -and
($_.Name -notmatch "vsan-health")
} -ErrorAction Stop
}
$com = #()
$com = "Server-x" , "Server-y"
$pop = #()
foreach ($ser in $com) {
[array]$pop += Start-Job -ArgumentList $ser -ScriptBlock $wmidiskblock -Name top1
}
Get-Job -Name top1 | Receive-Job -Keep
Actual output:
Size : 64422408192
Freespace : 4908081152
RunspaceId : cdb3xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx
IPAddressToString : x.x.x.x
RunspaceId : cdb3xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx
Status : Running
Name : client_service
DisplayName : VMware Horizon Client
Status : Running
Name : ftnlsv3hv
DisplayName : VMware Netlink Supervisor Service
Status : Running
Name : ftscanmgrhv
DisplayName : VMware Scanner Redirection Client
Server-x
Desired output (as a CSV file):
Server Totalspace in GB Freespace in GB IP VMware ESX Agent Manager VMware Inventory Service
Server-x 100 36 144.215.150.67 Running Running

Answer 1

You need to transform your data to something that's actually exportable to CSV. Basically that means you need to take the bits of information you extract from the servers and put it into one object for each server:
$wmidiskblock = {
$disk = Get-WmiObject ...
$addr = (Test-Connection ...
$svc = Get-Service ...
$prop = [ordered]#{
Server = $args[0]
Totalspace = $disk.Size
Freespace = $disk.Freespace
IP = $addr
}
$svc | ForEach-Object { $prop[$_.Name] = $_.Status }
New-Object -Type PSObject -Property $prop
}
Then you can export the data received from the jobs like this:
... | Receive-Job | Export-Csv 'C:\path\to\output.csv' -NoType -Append