From time to time you need to find the moref of an object in vCenter. This is a quick powercli one liner to get the name and ID of an object type (VM, Datastore etc)
This assumes you are already connected to vCenter using Connect-VIServer
# Datastores Get-Datastore | Select Name,ID
This command returns output like below. In this example i have 1 datastore
#VMs Get-VM | Select Name,ID
This command returns output like below
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