ESXi using ~ 2 GB of RAM without any virtual machines?

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  I want to improve performance on the following code. Takes more than 2 hours to run. I think that the reason for which its so slow is due to Get - VM. Once, I saw a Get - view on how to improve the performance of Get - VM but don't know exactly how to use it. The script search the whole army to the virtual Center and produces a list of host with no virtual machine. I'd like to remove the flags of CPU as each host returned so I can match as processors if possible.

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