People are often suprised to hear that PowerCLI display information on both a vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch and 3rd Party VDS solutions such as the Cisco Nexus 1KV can be retrieved from PowerCLI, the below is an example using the native PowerCLI cmdlets which will pull information from both....
Get-VirtualSwitch -Distributed | Foreach {
$Details = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
VDSName = $_.Name
VDSDescription = $_.ExtensionData.Summary.Description
VDSModel = $_.ExtensionData.Summary.ProductInfo.Name
VDSVendor = $_.ExtensionData.Summary.ProductInfo.Vendor
VDSBuild = $_.ExtensionData.Summary.ProductInfo.Build
VDSBundleId = $_.ExtensionData.Summary.ProductInfo.BundleID
VDSVersion = $_.ExtensionData.Summary.ProductInfo.Version
NumPorts = $_.ExtensionData.Summary.NumPorts
NumDVPortGroups = @($_ | Get-VirtualPortGroup).Count
NumHosts = @($_.ExtensionData.Summary.HostMember).Count
NumVMs = @($_.ExtensionData.Summary.Vm).Count
}
$Details | Select VDSName, VDSDescription, VDSVendor, VDSModel, VDSBuild, VDSBundleID, VDSVersion, NumPorts, NumDVPortGroups, NumHosts, NumVMs
}Example output:
VDSName : VSM
VDSDescription : Cisco_Nexus_1000V_136945814
VDSVendor : Cisco Systems Inc.
VDSModel : Cisco Nexus 1000V
VDSBuild : 00000
VDSBundleId : VEM400-201101030-RG
VDSVersion : 4.0
NumPorts : 160
NumDVPortGroups : 11
NumHosts : 3
NumVMs : 1
VDSName : dvSwitch-01
VDSDescription : This is a VMware Distributed Virtual Switch
VDSVendor : VMware
VDSModel : DVS
VDSBuild : 00000
VDSBundleId :
VDSVersion : 4.1.0
NumPorts : 128
NumDVPortGroups : 2
NumHosts : 1
NumVMs : 1
