Get - VM to Get-View - viewtype VirtualMachine

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• show the parent object of get - view - ViewType HostSystem

  I want to change the code snippet below (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1012514) to include the parent object.

  Notice-EEG - ViewType HostSystem-Property Name, Config.Product. Select Name, {$_.} Config.Product.FullName}, {$_.} Config.Product.Build} | FT-auto

  When I run the modified version, I get 'ComputeResource-domain-sNNNN' or 'ClusterComputeResource-field-cNNN' in the Parent column. If I make one

  Get-Cluster ClusterComputeResource-field-cNNN

  I get the name of one of our groups. So I tried variations of the following, and I still can't get a good Parent.

  C:\ PowerCLI > notice-EEG - ViewType HostSystem-name of the property, Config.Product, Parent | Select Name, {$_.} Config.Product.FullName}, {$_.} Config. Product.Build}, ($_.) Parent | Get-cluster) | Sort - the name of the property. FT-auto

  Select: cannot convert System.Object [] to one of the following types {System.String, System.Management.Automation.ScriptBlock}.

  At line: 1 char: 72

  + view the GET - ViewType HostSystem-name of the property, Config.Product, Parent | Select Na...

  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidArgument: (:)) [Select-Object], NotSupportedException)

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: DictionaryKeyUnknownType, Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SelectObjectCommand

  PowerCLI C:\ >

  I realize that it does not help that, in some cases Parent will be a cluster object and in other cases it will be an object Folder or Data Center. I also tried

  .... $( if ( $_. Parent) {get-cluster-id $_.} Parent})

  .... ( if ( $_. Parent) {get-cluster-id $_.} Parent})

  .... (get-cluster-name ($_.)) Parent). Name)

  .... (get-cluster-name [string]($_.)) Parent). Name)

  (1) if I'm only looking on with parents of cluster hosts, is there a way to ignore all others?

  (2) how can I get the name of the parent cluster?

  Try like this

  Get-view ViewType - HostSystem-name of the property, Config.Product, Parent |

  Select Name,

  @{N = ' product'; E={$_. Config.Product.FullName}},

  @{N = 'Build'; E={$_. Config.Product.Build}},

  @{N = "Cluster"; E = {}

  $parent = get-view-Id $_. Parent - the Parent property name

  While ($parent - isnot [VMware.Vim.ClusterComputeResource] - and $parent. Parent) {}

  $parent is get-view-Id $parent. Parent - the Parent property name

  }

  If ($parent - is [VMware.Vim.ClusterComputeResource]) {}

  $parent. Name}}} |

  Format-Table-auto

• Getting the data center of VirtualMachine with Get-View information

  Hello

  Y at - it a faster way to get the name of data using Get-View and the viewtype VirtualMachine Center.

  I found the following:

  Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -filter @{ "name" = "mtl1fsit02" } | Select-Object -Property Name, 
  @{ Label = "GuestOSName"; Expression = { $_.summary.guest.guestfullname } }, 
  @{ Label = "Datacenter"; Expression = { (Get-view (Get-View (Get-view $_.parent).parent).Parent).name } }
  

  Thank you guys

  I think that the property calculated for the data center does not work in all situations.

  It assumes that your virtual machines are 3 levels down from the data center, which is not always the case.

  I personally use a loop, passing up through the parents, until he finds an object data center.

  something like that

  @{N = 'Center'; E = {}

  $parentObj = get-view $_. Parent

  While ($parentObj - isnot [VMware.Vim.Datacenter]({))

  $parentObj = get-view $parentObj.Parent

  }

  $parentObj.Name

  }

• Regular Get-view filter expressions

  I have the following code:

  $vms = get-VM-location 'test '.

  for ($i = 0; $i - lt $vms. County; $i++)

  {

  $vmOS = get-View - ViewType 'VirtualMachine' - filter @{"Name" = $vms [$i] .name} - property @("Nom", "Config.GuestFullName") | Select-Object - property name, @{N = "ConfiguredOS"; E={$_. Config.GuestFullName}} $vmOS

  }

  $vms contains some virtual machines to a folder called 'test '. I have 2 virtual machines in the folder - 'test' and 'test2 '. When I run the code above, when the 'test' VM is put in the loop, she returned twice. Time for 'test', and 'test2 '. I'm looking for a regular expression that I can use to get the exact name of each virtual computer so that only 1 value is returned by $vmOS in each loop.

  The filter is a regular expression, you can use the indicators of positions (^ and $).

  Something like that

  $vms = get-VM-location 'test '.

  for ($i = 0; $i - lt $vms. County; $i++)

  {

  $vmOS = get-View - ViewType 'VirtualMachine' - filter @{"Name" = "^ $($vms[$i].name)$" ""}-property @("Nom","Config.GuestFullName") |

  Select-Object - property name, @{N = "ConfiguredOS"; E={$_. Config.GuestFullName}}

  $vmOS

  }

• Using Get - view instead of Get - VM for BusSharingMode from a virtual computer

  Yet again, another issue was with Get - view. I searched a lot of documentation, but still I don't get the logic how to find good properties that I need to use.

  In this case, I need to transfer this one:

  Get - VM | Get-SCSI controller. Where-Object {$_.} BusSharingMode - eq ˜Physical"} | Select {$_.} Parent.Name}, BusSharingMode

  in:

  Notice-EEG - ViewType VirtualMachine-Property Name,Config.NameofthePropertyforBusSharingMode

  I will be grateful if someone could provide a documentation (or at least give me an idea what to read to get oriented) on these properties and their format so that they can be used to Get-View.

  The closest thing I found is this one: http://pubs.vmware.com/vi3/sdk/ReferenceGuide/vim.VirtualMachine.html and the VirtualMachineConfigInfo: http://pubs.vmware.com/vi3/sdk/ReferenceGuide/vim.vm.ConfigInfo.htmlhttp://pubs.vmware.com/vi3/sdk/ReferenceGuide/vim.vm.ConfigInfo.html
  I guess that in this case, we are talking about VirtualHardware (SCSI controller): http://pubs.vmware.com/vi3/sdk/ReferenceGuide/vim.vm.VirtualHardware.html and still I cannot establish the connection.

  It is all documented in the VMware vSphere QAnywhere, but as the title suggests, this is a reference.

  The vSphere Web Services SDK Programming Guide is intendedas a learning guide.

  Only no VMware book that explains a bit more on the vSphere API and objects is the book of Steve Jin, called VMware VI and vSphere SDK: management of VMware Infrastructure and vSphere

  It is written for Java developers, but it explains the basic concepts.

  In this specific question, you must know that all devices connected to a virtual computer is located in Config.Hardware.Device.

  It is a loop through the devices and extract the virtual SCSI controllers, also with bus physics active sharing.

  Once you have, it's simple extract properties.

  foreach ($vm in Get-View - ViewType VirtualMachine - Name property, Config.Hardware.Device) {}

  $scsi = $vm. Config.Hardware.Device | where {$_-is [VMware.Vim.VirtualSCSIController] - and $_.} SharedBus - eq "physicalSharing"}

  {if ($SCSI)}

  $scsi | Select @{N = "VM"; E = {$vm. Name}},

  @{N = "Controller"; E={$_. DeviceInfo.Label}},

  @{N = "BusSharingMode"; E={$_. SharedBus}}

  }

  }

• The use of Get - view instead of Get - VM for the advanced settings of a virtual computer

  I have a question in relation to the advanced settings of a virtual machine and using Get - view instead of Get - VM for this particular case:

  Get - VM * | Get-AdvancedSetting - name "scsi * sharing | Select the entity, Name, Value

  My idea is to use:

  Notice-EEG - ViewType VirtualMachine. Where {-not $_.} Config.Template} | Where {$_.} {Advanced.Setting - eq ' scsi * sharing "} | Select the entity, Name, Value

  but as far as I can see there is nothing for the advanced configuration of 'VirtualMachine' here: https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.powercli.cmdletref.doc%2FVirtualMachine.htm

  I also took a quick glance at https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk41pubs/ApiReference/vim.vm.ConfigSpec.html , but I can't figure out how to use "extraConfig"in the script PowerCLI to extract this particular information for "Sharing of SCSI".»

  There is information how to use the API to add or change a computer virtual here .vmx file key advances: http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2008/09/changing-vmx-fi.html but it is not clear to me how to use it just to extract information without changing what.

  Try like this

  foreach ($vm in (Get-View - ViewType VirtualMachine - property Name, Config.ExtraConfig - filter @{'Config.Template ' =' False'})) {}

  $vm. Config.ExtraConfig | where {$_.} Key - like "{scsi * sharing '} |"

  Select @{N = "VM"; E = {$vm. Name}},@{N='Template'; E = {$vm. Config.Template}}, Key, Value

  }

• Get-view Config.Hardwar.Device network adapter key 4000 solve Type of device?

  I know Get-NetworkAdapter before someone proposes.

  Now when using Get-view I drill down on a single record to the NIC see example in the attached picture.

  I know that the device type is an e1000e I see not listed in the hardware configuration, so I'm sure that his code in a hash table.

  
  My best guess is that 4000 KEY = E1000E but I would like a complete list of all the buttons on the unit so that I can solve them in my scripts.

  Any help is welcome and appreciated thank you.

  The type of NETWORK adapter is the objecttype.

  The following will first list all the types of devices and then filter the E1000 map

  $vm = get-View - ViewType VirtualMachine-filter @{'name '=' MyVM'}

  $vm. Config.Hardware.Device | %{$_. GetType()}

  $vm. Config.Hardware.Device | Where {$_-is [VMware.Vim.VirtualE1000]}

• Get-view do not show anything for some servers

  One of my colleagues has created a script to extract some VM PCI slot numbers the script seems simple like this and work for (most) servers.

  $ServerName = "Test01".

  $vmview = (get-View - ViewType VirtualMachine-filter @{"Name" = $ServerName}).config.hardware

  $AllSasControllers = $vmview. Device | Where {$_.} DeviceInfo.Summary - eq 'SAS LSI Logic'}

  foreach ($SasController to $AllSasControllers)

  {

  Write-Host "Pci slot number:" $SasController.SlotInfo.PciSlotNumber

  }

  It worked before, but since a few days on 3 virtual machines which are one of the 6 we want to check returns no results more. All 3 VM is connected to the same vCenter, while others are connected to another. Knowing this, we'll try another VM in the vCenter (defective)... .strange return these results...

  On a defective VM, I note that:

  $AllSasControllers is filled with the results

  But the slotinfo property is empty, so far I can only see this behavior on 3 virtual machines that worked fine before.

  We did a few add/remove disk shares a few weeks on all VM 6 on the two vCenters. (may be a clue)

  One has obtained clues where to look?

  After a restart of vCenter problem seems to have disappeared, requires that certain inconsistencies of data or something.

• Using filters and Get - view to find virtual machines with a specific guest operating system.

  I have the following code snippet to find all virtual machines with the updated OS to ' Red Hat Enterprise Linux * "prompt. It does not work. If the filter is left out, I find myself with all virtual machines.

  The immediate question is the specs for the game ' Red Hat Enterprise Linux. " Originally from the "Performance Difference between GET - VM and GET-VIEW")

  http://www.batchworks.de/performance-difference-between-get-VM-and-get-view/ ).

  $ClusterFilter = Get-View -ViewType ClusterComputeResource -Property Name -Filter @{“Name” = $ClusterName } | select -ExpandProperty MoRef

  $VirtualMachines = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Config -SearchRoot $ClusterFilter

  
  The biggest problem for me is to understand for Get-View filter. I was capable of a bit of insight to gleen from the URL below, but I think what Miss me is the reference (Microsoft) for what is happening to the right of the equal sign. What is the correct terminology for this type of query expression / where the syntax is 'left' = 'straight' and keywords such as "-match" are not allowed.

  http://purple-screen.com/?Cat=3

  VMware vSphere 5.1

  http://Wannemacher.us/?p=259

  Regular expressions with Windows PowerShell

  Right in the filter expression is an RegEx expression, please allow for characters before and after the word Linux.

  And the name of the OS is Config.GuestFullName.

  I corrected the entries more early as well.

  $ClusterName = "^MyCluster$"$ClusterFilter = get-view -ViewType ClusterComputeResource -Property Name -Filter @{"Name" = $ClusterName } | select -ExpandProperty MoRefWrite-Host $ClusterFilter
  
  $VirtualMachinesNoFilter   = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,Config -SearchRoot $ClusterFilter $VirtualMachinesWithFilter = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,Config -SearchRoot $ClusterFilter -Filter @{"Config.GuestFullName"=".*Linux.*"}
  

• Folder Get view filter VM

  
  Hello
  

  
  I have a script that get all the VM name and IP address on a specific vCenter and the VM naming convention, and it works like a charm. I would go more deep in the filter setting to be able to search in one specific folder.
  

  
  Is it possible to do with get-view?
  

  
  Here is my current get-view function:
  

  
  Notice-EEG - ViewType VirtualMachine-name of the property, Guest.HostName, Config.Hardware.Device, Guest.IPAddress - filter @{"Runtime.PowerState" ="PoweredOn"; "' the name '=' ^ BGSOFW ';
  

  
  Thanks for your help
  

  
  Manu
  

  Try something like this

  $folderName = "MyFolder"$tgtFolder = Get-Folder -Name $folderName
  
  Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{"Parent"=$tgtFolder.ExtensionData.MoRef.Value} |Select Name
  

  The folder should be the folder where are virtual machines.

  In the case of nested folders, the script requires little additional code.

• Problem combining Get - VM and Get-View

  I worked on a script for a while, and very close if he's working as I want.  The script below is what I have so far and works as I want.

  $(foreach ($cluster get-cluster) {get - view - viewtype VirtualMachine - SearchRoot $cluster.id | select @{N = 'The virtual computer name';}) E={$_. Name}}, @{N = "PowerState"; E={$_. Summary.Runtime.PowerState}}, @{N = "guest operating system"; E={$_. Config.GuestFullName}}, @{N = 'Cluster'; E = {$cluster. Name}}, @{N = 'Notes'; E={$_. Summary.Config.Annotation}}})

  However, I can't seem to shoot our custom annotations by using Get - view but can't Get - VM.  The script below works.

  Get - VM | Select Name, @{N = "Org1.Environment"; E = {(Get-Annotation-entité $_-CustomAttribute "Org1.Environment").} Value}}

  How to combine the two?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Hello, Grimdari-

  You are pretty close to.  A couple of ways you could do this, the first using the code of Get-Annotation you did already:

  foreach ($cluster in Get-Cluster) {    Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -SearchRoot $cluster.id | Select @{n="VM name"; e={$_.Name}},        @{n="PowerState"; e={$_.Summary.Runtime.PowerState}},        @{n="Guest OS"; e={$_.Config.GuestFullName}},        @{n="Cluster"; e={$cluster.name}},        @{n="Notes"; e={$_.Summary.Config.Annotation}},        ## using the Get-VIObjectByVIView cmdlet; slower        @{n="Org1.Environment"; e={(Get-Annotation -Entity (Get-VIObjectByVIView $_) -CustomAttribute "Org1.Environment").Value}}} ## end foreach
  

  And the second, stick with the info you've already recovered in the call to Get-View :

  ## selected properties to retrieve in Get-View call$arrViewPropertiesToGet = "Name","Summary.Runtime.PowerState","Config.GuestFullName","Summary.Config.Annotation","CustomValue","AvailableField"foreach ($cluster in Get-Cluster) {    Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property $arrViewPropertiesToGet -SearchRoot $cluster.id | Select @{n="VM name"; e={$_.Name}},        @{n="PowerState"; e={$_.Summary.Runtime.PowerState}},        @{n="Guest OS"; e={$_.Config.GuestFullName}},        @{n="Cluster"; e={$cluster.name}},        @{n="Notes"; e={$_.Summary.Config.Annotation}},        ## just using the data already retrieved; far faster        @{n="Org1.Environment"; e={$viewThisVM = $_; ($viewThisVM.CustomValue | ?{$_.Key -eq ($viewThisVM.AvailableField | ?{$_.Name -eq "Org1.Environment"}).Key}).Value}}} ## end foreach
  

  The second way is much faster, though it might be a little less obvious how she came up with the results.  He becomes the value of CustomValue where CustomValue key corresponds to the key AvailableField for the AvailableField with the name of the attribute you want.  Anyway, how those who do for you?

• Folder is a virtual computer in the use of Get-View

  All, I run a script to collect information on the virtual machines in the environment, but have not been able to figure out how to get the file to in the virtual machine is.  I know I could use a get - vm | Select name, file etc. but at the time wherever I have add a get - vm statement, I'll add a TON of execution time of the script.

  I currently use it as my get-views command...

  Notice-EEG - ViewType VirtualMachine-Name property, Runtime.Host, Config.GuestFullName, Config.Annotation, Config.Hardware.NumCPU, Config.Hardware.MemoryMB, Guest.Disk, Config.Template, Guest.IpAddress | Sort-Object-property name. %{
  If ($_.) Config.Template - not $true) {}
  $row = "" | Select-Object Name, Notes, MemoryGB, host, CPU, OS, Cluster, IPAddress, DiskSpaceGB, UsedSpaceGB

  ....

  I know I'm just grabbing some properties, but I was not able to find the property that gives the name of the folder.

  To try to find the right one, I did

  $vm = get-View - ViewType VirtualMachine-filter @{"Name" ="VM_Name"}

  Then just walk through the $vm variable. (Property) etc.

  Anyone?

  In the VirtualMachine object, the Parent property contains the MoRef (pointer) to the object of the file.

  In order to

  Select Name,@{N="Folder; E = {Get-view $_.} Parent | Select name - ExpandProperty}}

• specify the name of the vm to get-view-filter of hash

  According to me, Miss me some eccentric or a convention with Powershell variables in a hash filter.

  My infrastructure includes these 3 VMs:
  UTIL
  otherUTIL
  anotherUTILserver

  I try to use something like the following to return only the virtual machine called UTIL. This returns all 3 VMs with UTIL in their name:

  $vm = 'UTIL '.

  Notice-EEG - ViewType VirtualMachine-filter @{"Name" = $vm} | Select - expand name

  Get line - see below eliminates anotherUTILserver but always returns otherUTIL with UTIL:

  Notice-EEG - ViewType VirtualMachine-filter @{'Name' = ' $$vm '} | Select - expand name

  With ' $vm$ ' I'm following comment by LucD here: http://rvdnieuwendijk.com/2011/09/12/how-to-use-VMware-vSphere-PowerCli-to-find-the-MAC-addresses-of-a-virtual-machine/#comment-22

  If necessary, I could use the GET more slow-but-more simple-vm, could add a foreach loop (my example is simplified), or might filter on an additional property in addition to the name. But I hope that there is a similar thing that will help you eliminate otherUTIL and filter return only UTIL, without adding complexity.

  Regular expression to the rescue: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/az24scfc.aspx

  Notice-EEG - ViewType VirtualMachine-filter @{"Name" = "^ $vm$"} | Select - expand name

  Or without regex:

  $x = get-View - ViewType VirtualMachine-filter @{"Name" = $vm}

  $x | where {$_.name - eq $vm} | Select - expand name

• Get-View and - filter

  I'm a (relatively) new convert to get - view the incredible increase in speed to run scripts PowerCLI through ESXi hosts hundreds / thousands of virtual machines.

  I've been struggling with how to do it with a list of the MV?  What I want to do, it's with a provided list of VMs get the hardware version and version of the tools.

  Normally, if you wanted a report of everything that you would do the following:

  Notice-EEG - viewtype VirtualMachine-property name, Config. Select Name, @{N = "HWVersion"; E={$_. Config.Version}},@{N="Tools '; E={$_. Config.Tools.ToolsVersion}} | FT-auto

  Now read on - filter is seems the way to go-, but it uses a hash table.  That is to say "Name" = "Foo".  It does not seem to manage 'Name' = $vmList where $vmList is a collection of multiple virtual machines.  I will not go into how if the variable is a unique virtual machine that Foo matches Foo and FooBar.

  What I have used is the following:

  $vmList = get-content c:\scripts\import\listofvms.txt

  Get - vm $vmList | Opinion-GET-property name, Config. Select Name, @{N = "HWVersion"; E={$_. Config.Version}},@{N="Tools '; E=$_. Config.Tools.ToolsVersion}} | FT-auto

  The only problem is that I feel like this is a workaround solution - it should all be achievable using get - view directly.  -If I wanted to use - filter, with a collection of virtual machines would how I did this?

  See you soon

  Robert

  Hi Robert,.

  If you use the cmdlet Get-view and search two VM called foo and bar, you will need to make a filter with a regular expression. You must use the vertical bar as a sign "or" in the regular expression. For example

  Notice-EEG - ViewType VirtualMachine-Property Name, filter-Config @{"Name"=' foo | "} bar'}

  You can use the .NET Join method string to construct the regular expression from the $vmList variable. Like this:

  $vmList = get-content c:\scripts\import\listofvms.txt
  Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,Config -Filter @{"Name"="$([string]::Join('|',$vmList))"} | `
  Select-Object -Property Name,@{N="HWVersion";E={$_.Config.Version}},@{N="Tools";E={$_.Config.Tools.ToolsVersion}} | `
  Format-Table -AutoSize
  

  Best regards, Robert

  Post edited by: RvdNieuwendijk has added the explanation at the beginning of the post.

• Get-view Guest.ToolStatus result invalid

  When I run

  C:\>(Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{"Name"="VM Name"}).Guest.ToolsStatus
  C:\>toolsOk
  

  But vSphere reporting tools such as "Expired" on this particular virtual machine. To check the version of the tools that they are certainly more up-to-date. Is this a bug in the cmdlet? Is there a better way to retrieve VM tool with powercli status?

  You can check the property toolsVersionStatus instead of toolsStatus ?

  This last one is amortized in vSphere 4.x