List of virtual machines and their vmdk?

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• Script to the list of virtual machines with their VMDK on warehouses of data with their LUN ID.

  Hey gang - I have one here, I wonder if anyone has some ideas...

  Our storage team is looking for a report that can be generated to display each VM, each VMDK for this virtual machine and the data store on the VMDK is the canonical name of the data store - and throw in a delimited file of semicolon for their own transformation...

  I have thousands of VMS over hundreds of hosts and data warehouses and also have a handful of RDM. so, I'm looking for the most effective way to go about it.

  Should look like this:

  VMName; VMDKName, the data store; MONDAY

  somevm; somevm.vmdk; DATASTORE1; NAA.60050723145982asd29823blahblah1

  somevm; somevm_1.vmdk; DATASTORE2; NAA.60050723145982asd29823blahblah2

  Any ideas?

  The following PowerCLI script will give you the report requested on the virtual machines and their VMDK files. It also takes account of the fact that a data store can have several extensions:

  Get-VM |
  Get-HardDisk |
  Select-Object -Property @{N="VM";E={$_.Parent}},
  @{N="VMDK";E={$_.FileName.Split('/')[1]}},
  @{N="Datastore";E={$_.FileName.Split(']')[0].TrimStart('[')}},
  @{N="LunID";E={[string]::Join(',',((Get-Datastore $_.FileName.Split(']')[0].TrimStart('[')).Extensiondata.Info.Vmfs.Extent |
    Select-Object -ExpandProperty DiskName))}}
  

• List virtual machines and their DNS server settings

  I try to list virtual machines and their primary and secondary DNS server addresses.  Are the cmdlets in vmware that can do this, or would I need to use the invoke-script command.  I have the list of virtual machines and I want to list them all with their DNS server addresses.

  I tried to use the wmi objects such as:

  Win32_networkadapterconfiguration get-wmiobject - computername "servername |

  Select name, DNSServerSearchOrder

  It would give me the specific server name and addresses of dns.

  But I need the list of servernames which I would like to list some and their

  DNSserversearchorder settings (DNS settings)

  I tried to put the servernames list in a text file using

  Get - vm | Export-csv C:\computername.txt - notype

  Then I used the get-content command and the pipe in the get-wmiobject

  command like below:

  $servers = get-Content c:\computername.txt

  ForEach ($server in $servers)

  {get-wmiobject Win32_networkadapterconfiguration - computername $server

  | where {$_.} IPEnabled-fits 'True'} | Select-object

  name, DNSServerSearchOrder

  But when I run this command fails with errors such as a pipe empty

  element is not allowed.  I don't know if the above script has all synatx

  error or what is the best way to get a list of servers and their dns server

  Parameters.

  I know the wmiobject maybe out of this range in these newsgroups but there at - it a script in powershell, vmware or windows powershell to get a list of servername (which are mostly VMS) and their DNS server settings.

  Try the following script to get the DNS search order:

  Get-Content c:\computername.txt | `
  ForEach-Object {
    Get-WMIObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Computername $_ | `
      Where-Object {$_.IPEnabled -match "True"} | `
      Select-Object -property DNSHostName,DNSServerSearchOrder
  }
  

  Best regards, Robert

• Reports on virtual machines and their records

  I want to create a report on all my virtual machines and disks attached to each.  My preference would be to have the information in a .csv, so I can work with it in Excel.  What I've done so far has proved frustrating as I find it hard to combine the two.

  What I tried:

  1 VI Toolkit - I know I can run the command 'Get - VM' and "Get-hard drive" to get everything I need, but the combination of the two is beyond my current abilities of PowerShell.

  2 Report.ps1 of alanrenouf - gives a lot of information, but nowhere close to what I need.  I considered trying to modify this script, but I thought that it would take more time than learning how to make #1.

  3 OpenXMPowerTools - get this utility approach work still takes hours without result, more work than it's worth

  I have a few scripts (VBscript) skills, it is just their transfer in the new PowerShell environment for me I have difficulties with that.  I'm picturing extract names VM of the command Get - VM and then providing them to the hard disk-Get command and write VM name and output in the .csv file.

  Any help you can provide me with would be greatly appreciated to learn PowerShell.

  Thank you

  Joey

  Did you watch his pretty good RVtools and maybe gives you options of export or copied data and import it with excellent that.  Its very nice ESX administration tool.

  If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points to 'Correct' or 'useful '. Thank you!!!

  Kind regards

  Stefan Nguyen

  VMware vExpert 2009

  iGeek Systems Inc.

  VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

• List virtual machines and their data warehouses

  I took a dagger to the list of all virtual machines in my VC with data warehouses where their VMDK:

  $report = @)

  $allvms = Get-VM

  {foreach ($vm to $allvms)

  $row = "" | Select VMNAME, DATASTORE

  $row. VMNAME = $vm.name

  {color: #ff0000} $row. DATA store = (Get - VM | get-data store)

  $report += $row

  }

  $report | Export-Csv "C:\vm_ds.csv" -NoTypeInformation

  No luck. I know that the problem is with the cndlet of get-data store, the file indicates the VMNAME column filled with virtual machines, as expected, but the column of report DATA store System.Object [].

  Any help would be appreciated.

  You are already in a loop through all the guests (the loop foreach in line 3), there is no need to get all customers with the cmdlet Get - VM (again) in the 6th line.

  You can just pass (i $vm) invites him to the cmdlet Get-data store on line

  System.Object [] entry in the CSV file is caused by the fact that the Export-CSV cmdlet does not know how to handle objects or arrays of objects.

  One solution is to loop through all the data store names that are returned.

  And keep the data store name in the property of the DATA store.

  The result is that there will be several rows in the CSV file to people with more than 1 data store.

  $report = @()
  
  $allvms = Get-VM
  foreach ($vm in $allvms) {
       $dstores = $vm | Get-Datastore
       foreach($ds in $dstores){
            $row = "" | select VMNAME, DATASTORE
            $row.VMNAME = $vm.name
            $row.DATASTORE = $ds.Name
            $report += $row
       }
  }
  
  $report | Export-Csv "C:\vm_ds.csv" -NoTypeInformation
  

• List of all virtual machines and their memory allocated procs

  Y at - it a script that will list all the virtual machines in my environment and how many processors and memory is allocated for them? Thanks in advance for your help.

  This isn't really a PowerCLI thing, but you can see RVTools

• Change VLAN of a list of virtual machines and then force a reboot.

  I start with a script that I found in this forum - I'm new here and just try to wrap your head around this code... so apologies if this is Basic for all the world

  # VCenter you plug too

  $vcserver = "MyVcenter.somewhere.local".

  SE connect-VIServer $vcserver

  # Loop to make changes to the network card from the list of servers that needs to be changed

  $serverlist = get-Content "C:\Scripts\vlan_Test\vms.txt".

  ForEach ($server in $serverlist)

  {

  $NIC = get-NetworkAdapter - VM $server

  All-NIC - NIC $NIC - NetworkName "1234 MyNewVLan"-confirm: $false ""

  Just add restart to this line?

  }

  Thanks in advance - I wanted to validate the name of vlan first... and if = rename abc def and restart (just in case you are really in the mood to help me )

  Yes, you can add simply restarting the virtual computer after you set the new assignment of network I've included in the script below, and I added the test to check you're going only to change the network adapters that have a VLAN specific already assigned. The script below assumes you want to just restart virtual machines where the assignment of network has been changed. If you want to restart all the virtual machines on the list, no matter if they need to change, and then pass the line of restart-vmguest out of the IF statement. In addition, I would like to add that a reboot is not necessary for this change.

  # VCenter you plug too

  $vcserver = "MyVcenter.somewhere.local".

  SE connect-VIServer $vcserver

  # Loop to make changes to the network card from the list of servers that needs to be changed

  $serverlist = get-Content "C:\Scripts\vlan_Test\vms.txt".

  {ForEach ($server in $serverlist)

  $NIC = get-NetworkAdapter - VM $server

  If ($NIC.NetworkName - like "MyOldVLan" 1233) {}

  All-NIC - NIC $NIC - NetworkName "MyNewVLan 1234" - confirm: $false

  restart-VMGuest - VM $server

  }

  }

• Virtual machines and their Snap Shots

  Hey Gang,

  When I delete a VM disk, which also removes the clichés that were taken from the virtual machine?

  At least it should be. There may be situations where some files remain on the disk, for example an instant tree with different forks was created and the .vmsd file is corrupted.

  André

• PowerCLI Script to the list of virtual machines by their hosts

  Trying to find a simple script that will display a list of virtual to a CSV file and computers are that they currently host slot, but not lucky so far. Closer, I found is that of Alan Renouf below that lists the number of VMs per host, but not the actual names.

  Get-VMHost | Select @{N=“Cluster“; E={Get-Cluster -VMHost $_}}, Name, @{N=“NumVM“; E={($_ | Get-VM ). County}} | Sort Cluster, Name | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation c:\clu-host-numvm.csv

  I'm sure it's something in the simple sense of get-vmhost | Get - vm, but should the listed host. Any ideas?

  Hello, Viewaskew-

  There is a property, VMHost, of computer virtual objects.  For example, you can use a Get - VM call forwarded to a Select-Object statement (then to Export-Csv), as:

  Get-VM | Select Name,VMHost | Export-Csv -Path c:\temp\VMsAndHostsInfo.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

  What to do for you?

• List of virtual machines in ESX 3.5 Server

  Is it possible to the list of virtual machines and their status in the host server ESX 3.5, connected to the host directly using ssh?

  Thank you to

  Hello and welcome to the forums.

  Check out this discussion.

  Good luck!

• Script to get 1 csv by cluster with associated information (list of virtual machines, host capacity, IOPS / s...)

  Hi all, I'm new here and it's been days I'm trying to find the right script to the list of virtual machines and related information on each cluster and get 1 csv for each individual cluster.

  Here is my code:

  Get-content C:\cl.txt | % {

  $cl = $_

  Get - VM | Select-Object @{N = 'Cluster'; {E = {Get-Cluster - VM $_}}, @{Expression = 'Host'; Label = "ESX host"}, @{Expression = "Name"; Label is "VM"},

  @{Expression = "Numcpu"; Label = 'vCPU'}, @{Expression = "MemoryGB"; Label = "RAM (GB)"}, "

  @{n = "Provisioned Volume"; e = {[math]: tour ($_.)}} (ProvisionedSpaceGB, 2)}}, @{n = "Use the Volume"; e = {[math]: tour ($_.)}} (UsedSpaceGB, 2)}},

  @{N = "Ops ARE/s/write"; E = {[math]: tour ((Get-Stat $_-stat "datastore.numberWriteAveraged.average"-en temps réel |))} Select - expand the value | measure - average). Average, 1)}},

  @{N = "Ops ARE/s/reading"; E = {[math]: tour ((Get-Stat $_-stat "datastore.numberReadAveraged.average"-en temps réel |))} Select - expand the value | measure - average). Average, 1)}} | Export-Csv - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture 'C:\vm_report_$cl.csv '.

  }

  Note: each csv is generated for each cluster

  CL.txt lists the clusters , but all I get is several files with the same content, and they are not properly renamed

  How can I do to generate 1 csv by cluster ?

  For example, there are 3 groups A1, A2, A3 (in file cl.txt), we get 3 csv files generated individually A1.csv, A2.csv and A3.csv and related data in them:

  A1.csv :                                                                 A2.csv :                                                                    A3.csv

  Host cluster VM RAM (GB) Cluster ESX VM RAM (GB) Cluster Host ESX VM ESX host

  A1 sx0001 su19001 4 sx0001adm 32 su1386adm su10670 A3 iu01990 A2

  Sx0001 su23000 A1 2 A2 sx0001adm su12404 32 A3 sx1385adm su10034

  Sx0002 su55000 sx0002pack sw12785 A1 2 A2 1 A3 su1384adm iu00025

  Help with this script would you gladly.

  Thank you

  Joseph.

  Judging by the timestamp, it seems that these files with spaces between the file name and file type, were made yesterday.

  This might have been one of your previous tests?

  Maybe do a series of tests of the script in an empty folder.

• looking for a script to the list of virtual machines by datastore

  Someone at - it a script that lists each data store, then the virtual machines that are on it. Or maybe the list all virtual machines and data store or data warehouses is located in the virtual machine?

  Thank you

  This should do the trick for you.  In fact, it extends the computer object complete virtual with a property data store so you can still search the other aspects of the virtual machine.

  Get-Datastore. WHERE-object {$_.} {Name - like "DMX *"} | {ForEach-Object

  $dsname = $_. Name

  $_ | Get - VM | {ForEach-Object

  $($_ | Add - Member MemberType NoteProperty-name of store data-value $dsname - PassThru) | Select-object Name, host, Datastore

  }

  }

• Help to get a list of virtual machines with switch network and name

  I'm trying to get a simple list of virtual machines on a single host and include their name and networkname.

  When I run this Get - vm | where {$_.} $host.name - eq "ESX.local"}, I get the virtual machines with their name.  When I run this Get-networkadapter - vm Get - vm | where {$_.} $host.name - eq "ESX.local"} I download news network with the name of the network, which is what im after. "  I want to combine these 2 commands and get vm name and network name in a csv.  The network name is the Group of ports, the VM is affected change settings for example, it could be vlan10 or what you named your group of ports in the switch DV.  I've attached a screenshot of the orders successfully.

  Hello, brisketx-

  You could do a little more efficiently by getting first the VMHost (s) that are of interest, then get their virtual machines and then using a computed property for the names of network for virtual machines.  As:

  Get-VMHost esx.local | Get-VM |    Select-Object Name, @{n="NetworkName"; e={(Get-NetworkAdapter -VM $_ | %{$_.NetworkName}) -join ","}}
  

  You can then, of course, lead to Export-Csv to write the data to a CSV file.  How does do for you?

• Newbie question: list the Configuration of virtual machines and data warehouses

  Hello

  I'm new on using powercli how to list all virtual machines in a certain data center, their memory, Procs and what data warehouses they are on.

  I know you can use get - vm | Select-object name, NumCPU MemoryMB but if I add DatastoreIdList as well, it doesn't seem to work.  What Miss me

  Thank you very much

  Laurence

  That's right, you could do

  Get-VM MyVM | Select Name,@{N="DS";E={[string]::join(',',($_.datastoreidlist|%{(Get-View -Id $_).Name}))}},Description |
      Export-Csv "C:\test.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

  Just look at whether the separator for CSV is be a comma in your culture, you probably need to adjust the separator in the Join method!

• Not possible to export a list of virtual machines that are created in the past 7, 30, 120 and 180 days since an imported csv file containing the date of creation of virtual machine

  Not possible to export a list of virtual machines that are created in the past 7, 30, 120 and 180 days since an imported csv file containing the date of creation of virtual machine. My questions is the correct statement to the variable: $VmCreated7DaysAgo: $_CreatedOn "-lt" $CDate7.

  # #SCRIPT_START

  $file = "C:\Users\Admin\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\08-18-2014\VM-Repo.csv".

  $Import = import-csv $file

  $VMCreatedLast7RDayRepoFile = "C:\Users\Admin\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\08-18-2014\Last7Days.csv".

  $start7 = (get-Date). AddMonths(-1)

  $CDate7 = $start7. ToString('MM/dd/yyyy')

  $VmCreated7DaysAgo = $Import | Select-object - property name, Powerstate, vCenter, VMHost, Cluster, file, Application, CreatedBy, CreatedOn, NumCpu, MemoryGB | Where-Object {$_.} CreatedOn - lt $CDate7} | Sort-Object CreatedOn

  $TotalVmCreated7DaysAgo = $VmCreated7DaysAgo.count

  $VmCreated7DaysAgo | Export-Csv-path $VMCreatedLast7RDayRepoFile - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  Write-Host "$TotalVmCreated7DaysAgo VMs created in 7 days" - BackgroundColor Magenta

  Invoke-Item $VMCreatedLast7RDayRepoFile

  # #SCRIPT_END

  You can use the New-Timespan cmdlet in the Where clause, it returns the time difference between 2 DateTime objects.

  An example of this cmdley

  New-TimeSpan-start (Get-Date). AddDays(-7)-end (Get-Date). Select days - ExpandProperty

  In your case, you could do

  Where {(New Timespan-démarrer ([DateTime] $_.))} CreatedOn) - end $start7). {7 days - gt}

  But beware of negative numbers.