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    <title>topic Re: PowerCLI find ESXi Host BIOS or UEFI boot mode in VMware PowerCLI Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;No cmdlet or property for that afaik.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;That &lt;STRONG&gt;vsish&lt;/STRONG&gt; command is the only way that I know off.&lt;BR /&gt;You can run that command via an SSH session (if that is allowed in your environment).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;With the &lt;STRONG&gt;Posh-SSH&lt;/STRONG&gt; module that became very straightforward, see &lt;A href="https://www.lucd.info/knowledge-base/use-posh-ssh-instead-of-putty/"&gt;Use Posh-SSH instead of PuTTY&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:22:03 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>LucD</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2020-04-20T17:22:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>PowerCLI find ESXi Host BIOS or UEFI boot mode</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-PowerCLI-Discussions/PowerCLI-find-ESXi-Host-BIOS-or-UEFI-boot-mode/m-p/1837390#M61329</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Trying to audit / get a list of all my ESXi Hosts Firmware / BIOS settings to see if they boot Legacy BIOS or EFI using VMware PowerCLI 10.1.0 build 8346946.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;P&gt;I've found that&amp;nbsp;on the&amp;nbsp;Host Console I can use&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;P&gt;vsish -e get /hardware/firmwareType&lt;BR /&gt;Returns - Firmware type: 1 -&amp;gt; UEFI&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;P&gt;I can't seem to locate that value where I would expect,&lt;BR /&gt;$VMHost = Get-VMHost&lt;BR /&gt;$VMHost.ExtensionData.Hardware&lt;BR /&gt;or&lt;BR /&gt;$VMHost.ExtensionData.Config.Hardware&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;P&gt;Would anyone have any idea where this value would be?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:42:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>mrrising</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-20T16:42:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: PowerCLI find ESXi Host BIOS or UEFI boot mode</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-PowerCLI-Discussions/PowerCLI-find-ESXi-Host-BIOS-or-UEFI-boot-mode/m-p/1837391#M61330</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;No cmdlet or property for that afaik.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;That &lt;STRONG&gt;vsish&lt;/STRONG&gt; command is the only way that I know off.&lt;BR /&gt;You can run that command via an SSH session (if that is allowed in your environment).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;With the &lt;STRONG&gt;Posh-SSH&lt;/STRONG&gt; module that became very straightforward, see &lt;A href="https://www.lucd.info/knowledge-base/use-posh-ssh-instead-of-putty/"&gt;Use Posh-SSH instead of PuTTY&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:22:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>LucD</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-20T17:22:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: PowerCLI find ESXi Host BIOS or UEFI boot mode</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-PowerCLI-Discussions/PowerCLI-find-ESXi-Host-BIOS-or-UEFI-boot-mode/m-p/1837392#M61331</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks Luc,&amp;nbsp; SSH would be accessable&amp;nbsp;by our ops team but company policy has it&amp;nbsp;normally disabled.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;P&gt;We are working with 1400+ ESXi hosts so I was&amp;nbsp;hopping to get it through Powershell&amp;nbsp;extension data.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;P&gt;But since you say it's not&amp;nbsp;avaliable...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;P&gt;Gonna have to be a manual process to get the info.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks for the help.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:34:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>mrrising</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-20T18:34:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: PowerCLI find ESXi Host BIOS or UEFI boot mode</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-PowerCLI-Discussions/PowerCLI-find-ESXi-Host-BIOS-or-UEFI-boot-mode/m-p/1837393#M61332</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Just to make sure I did another search in the forums, but this is the only one I can find (and which confirms the vsish command).&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/message/2633881"&gt;Re: How do I know If ESXi server boots UEFI?&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 19:55:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>LucD</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-20T19:55:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: PowerCLI find ESXi Host BIOS or UEFI boot mode</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-PowerCLI-Discussions/PowerCLI-find-ESXi-Host-BIOS-or-UEFI-boot-mode/m-p/1837394#M61333</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;depending on the server you might be able to interrogate the bios via an API, dell and others for instance use redfish which there are a few powershell scripts around that can get information out of it, I have used it for checking power management settings that are in the BIOS as well as a few other things.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 12:25:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>MattHumphreys</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-22T12:25:21Z</dc:date>
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