[ESXi 4.1] Limit the VIM - CMD vmsvc/getallvms results

Hello

I have a lot of virtual machines running in our environment. So when I run the command from the object, I get a lot of useless content.

What I want is to see the VMID, name and location of data store. How can I do this?

BTW, I installed RVTools to try to make this easier for myself and see them immediately... but the VMID is not displayed.

Thank you

Johnathan

brunofernandez1,

Thanks for the link. I found the following one line that does this for me:

Vim - cmd vmsvc/getallvms | SED ' 1 to EI EI /------[. * $/ /' | awk ' $1 ~ / ^ [0-9] + $/ {print $1 "substr($0,8,80)" "}"]

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