Virtual machines status.

[vmk2014]

Hi All,

I have a list of around 600 VM's but not sure whether these VM's still exist or running in Vcenter or migrated to the Cloud. Can we confirm from power cli whether the VM's from list C:\temp\vmlist  exist or running on the vc? Example VC name - vc01.

thanks

vmk

[LucD · Accepted solution]

If the VMs running in the cloud are not found from with your connection to the vCenter(s), you could do

Get-Content -Path C:\temp\vmlist |

ForEach-Object -Process {

   $obj = [ordered]@{

    VM = $_

   }

   $vm = Get-VM -Name $_ -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

   if ($vm)

   {

    $obj.Add('VC', ([uri]$vm.ExtensionData.Client.ServiceUrl).Host)

   }

   else

   {

    $obj.Add('VC', 'VM not found')

   }

   New-Object PSObject -Property $obj

}

[vmk2014]

Thanks, LucD. It saved manual effort for validating each vm from vc.

Thanks

vmk

[vmk2014]

LucD,

Can we validate those VM's which we are able to find running on which ESXi version? I mean  VM's running on VC.

thanks

vmk

[LucD]

Sure, try like this

Get-Content -Path C:\temp\vmlist |

ForEach-Object -Process {

   $obj = [ordered]@{

     VM = $_

   }

   $vm = Get-VM -Name $_ -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

   if ($vm)

   {

     $obj.Add('VC', ([uri]$vm.ExtensionData.Client.ServiceUrl).Host)

     $obj.Add('ESXVersion', "$($vm.VMHost.Version) $($vm.VMHost.Build)")

   }

   else

   {

     $obj.Add('VC', 'VM not found')

     $obj.Add('ESXVersion', 'na')

   }

   New-Object PSObject -Property $obj

}