Greetings-
I see. Looks like that property on the VMHostImpl object (returned from Get-VMHost) has not always been there. I was checking against an environment that has the vSphere 5.1 API. I saw, like you pointed out, that these other properties were not present when testing against a v5.0 API environment.
So, yes, like you said -- the ".Client.ServiceUrl" property of the View object for the host has a string that can be used to deduce the vCenter server name. And, you can still access that property from the VMHostImpl object via the .ExtensionData property. Something like:
Get-VMHost | select Name,
@{n="vCenter"; e={($_.ExtensionData.Client.ServiceUrl -replace"http[s]?://", "").Split("/")[0]}}
That do it?
