Some useful values from PowerCLI Get-View of VMware Virtual Infrastructure for use in scripts. I have also included some example data and notes. I have found that when writing scripts you end up using many of the same keys regularly. So this is a small list to save having to find this information each time.<\/p>\n
Virtual Machine<\/strong><\/p>\n VMHost<\/strong><\/p>\n Datastores<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n$vm = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{"Name"=""}\r\n\r\n$vm.\r\nName VCAC6\r\n\r\n$vm.config.\r\nGuestFullName SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 (64-bit)\r\nVersion vmx-07\r\nTemplate false\r\nGuestId sles11_64Guest\r\nAnnotation vCloud Automation Center enables.....\r\n\r\n$vm.config.Tools.\r\nToolVersion 2147483647\r\n\r\n$vm.config.Hardware.\r\nNumCPU 2\r\nNumCoresPerSocket 1\r\nMemoryMB 8192\r\n\r\nvm.config.hardware.device\r\nType = VMware.Vim.VirtualDisk\r\nCapacityInKB\r\n\r\n$vm.config.Files.\r\nVMPathName [loaclvmfs02-ocz] vCAC6\/vCAC6.vmx\r\n\r\n$vm.Runtime.\r\nPowerState poweredOff\r\nMemoryOverhead 254865408\r\n\r\n$vm.Summary.Storage.\r\nCommitted 5420092483 (UsedSpace)\r\nUncommitted 35647188992 (Thin space not yet used)\r\n\r\nCommitted = UsedSpace\r\nCommitted + Uncommitted = Provisioned Space\r\n\r\n$vm.Summary.Config.\r\nNumEthernetCards 1\r\nNumVirtualDisks 2\r\n\r\n$vm.Summary.Guest.\r\nIpAddress 192.168.1.25\r\n\r\n$vm.config.BootOptions.\r\nBootDelay 3000 (milliseconds to wait before booting VM, maximum allowed is 10,000)\r\nEnterBIOSSetup $true\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n\r\n$vmhost = Get-View -Viewtype HostSystem -Filter @{"Name"="" }\r\n\r\n$vmhost.\r\nName pesx01.localdomain\r\n\r\n$vmhost.Summary.Hardware.\r\nVendor Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.\r\nModel X58A-UD3R\r\nMemorySize 25768087552\r\nCpuModel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07Ghz\r\nCpuMhz 3064\r\nNumCpuPks 1\r\nNumCpuCores 4\r\nNumCputhreads 8\r\n\r\n$vmhost.config.Product.\r\nVersion 5.5.0\r\nBuild 1892794\r\n\r\n$vmhost.hardware.\r\nAsset number \r\nService tag\r\n\r\nParam(\r\n [VMware.Vim.ManagedEntity]\r\n $vmhost\r\n)\r\n<\/pre>\n\r\n$ds = Get-View -ViewType Datastore -Filter @{"Name"=""}\r\n\r\n$ds.\r\nName localvmfs01-samsung\r\n\r\n$ds.Info.\r\nFreeSpace 942653046784\r\nurl \/vmfs\/volumes\/4d5997e7-c73dee74-d1aa-001b219c053f\r\n\r\n$ds.Info.Vmfs.\r\nMajorVersion 3\r\nVersion 3.46\r\nssd false\r\nType VMFS\r\nCapacity 995627106304\r\n\r\n$ds.vm.\r\n[0]...[n] VirtualMachine-10 (Where n is the number of virtual machines)\r\nLength 7 (the number of Virtual Machines either on this datastore or have a connection to something on the datastore. For example they have a mapping to an ISO file. It does not matter whether the mapping is connected or not it shows up if the path is in the Virtual Machine Settings. So in this example there are 3 VMs and 4 VMs with ISO files.)\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"