PowerShell vSphere PowerCLI Information
- vspherecli and connect to vcenter by typing 'connect-viserver'
- connect-viserver -menu (will list recently connected to vCenter Servers)
Disconnect from VI-Server
- Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$false
Remove VM Host from vSphere
- remove-vmhost "servername"
Add VM Host to vSphere
- add-vmhost
Get list of VM's by Name & OS
- get-vm | foreach-object { get-vmguest $_ | select VMname, OSFullname}
- get-vm | foreach-object { get-vmguest $_ | where {$_.OSFullName -notlike "*Windows*"}} | select VMName, OSFullname
Search for VMhost with Parent Name
- S H:\> get-vmhost | where { $_.parent -match "RedHat" } | select Name, Parent
Show Datastore for single Host
- get-vmhost vmhost1.mydom.com | get-datastore
Get Cluster Datastore Usage
- Get-Cluster "cluster name" | get-vmhost | get-datastore
View Stats
- Get-StatType -Entity (Get-VM $vmguest/host)
Unmount CD or ISO
- Get-VM <filters> | Get-CDDrive | Set-CDDrive -NoMedia -Confirm:$false
- get-cluster "clusterName"|get-vmhost | get-vm | get-cddrive |set-cdDrive -NoMedia -confirm:$false
Check VMware Tools
- Add viProperty
- New-VIProperty -Name ToolsVersionStatus -ObjectType VirtualMachine ` -ValueFromExtensionProperty 'Guest.ToolsVersionStatus' ` -Force
- New-VIProperty -Name ToolsVersion -ObjectType VirtualMachine ` -ValueFromExtensionProperty 'Config.tools.ToolsVersion' ` -Force
- get-content some-vm-list.txt | foreach-object {get-vm $_} | % { get-view $_.ID }| select name, @{ Name="ToolsStatus"; Expression={$_.guest.toolsstatus}}
- get-cluster "clusterName" | get-vmhost | get-vm | where { $_.toolsVersionStatus -notlike "guestToolsCurrent"} |ft -autosize name,version,toolsVersion,ToolsVersionSTatus
- get-cluster "MyCluster" |get-vm | % { get-view $_.ID } | select Name, @{ Name="hostName"; Expression={$_.guest.hostName}}, @{ Name="ToolsStatus"; Expression={$_.guest.toolsstatus}}, @{ Name="ToolsVersion"; Expression={$_.config.tools.toolsVersion}} | sort-object name
Get vCenter Events
- get-vievent -username todd -type Error -maxSamples 20 |select FullFormattedMessage,CreatedTime
How to Create VM from Template with PowerShell CLI
- new-vm -name MyNewVM -Template myVMtemplate1 -Location "Afolder" -datastore san001 -vmhost "esx001.mydomain.com" Name PowerState Num CPUs MemoryGB ---- ---------- -------- -------- myvm1 PoweredOff 1 4.000 And since I want to reduce the memory to 2gb for this one, I just run this and also add note.
- set-vm MyNewVM -memoryGB 2 -notes "Test App Server: Java " -confirm:$false Name PowerState Num CPUs MemoryGB ---- ---------- -------- -------- MyNewVM PoweredOff 1 2.000 Then to verify my information
- get-vm MyNewVM |fl name, host, numcpu, memoryGB, notes Name : MyNewVM Host : esx001mydomain.com NumCpu : 1 MemoryGB : 2 Notes : Test App Server: Java
Find Deleted VM's
- $start = (Get-Date).AddDays(-14) $events = Get-VIEvent -Start $start -MaxSamples ([int]::MaxValue) | where {"VMCreatedEvent","VMRemovedEvent" -contains $_.GetType().Name} | Select CreatedTime,@{N="VM";E={$_.VM.Name}},UserName
Get ScsiControllers
- get-VM | Select Name,@{N="Controller Type";E={Get-ScsiController -VM $_ | Select -ExpandProperty Type}}
- get-vm
How to view ESX Hosts and CPU/Memory
- To see list of ESX Hosts and CPU/Memory run get-vmhost[vSphere PowerCLI] C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI> get-vmhost
How to view DataStore Size and Usuage
- To see all datastores and show FreeSpace and total capacity run get-datastore[vSphere PowerCLI] C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI> get-datastore
List or Move VM's on Specific Host
- To list all VM's on specific host run get-vmhost srv0esx003.mydomiain.com | get-vm | select name
- To move single VM from one host to another: i.e. from esx003 to esx002
- get-vmhost srv0esx003.mydom.com | get-vm -name vmname | move-vm -destination srv0esx001.mydom.com
- To move all, just use 'get-vm' without specifiying vm
- To move specific VM use:
- [vSphere PowerCLI] > get-vmhost srv0esx001.mydom.com | get-vm -name srv0smx00,srv0as44,vmname1,vmname2,vmname3| move-vm -destination srv0esx002.mydom.com
Get All PropertyTypes of VM
- get-vm | get-member -MemberType property
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