How to discover in which host a VM is running (without vCenter)

[Henrique_Cicuto]

Morning,

I had a problem (so far not diagnosed) in which now my vCenter is down.

The vCenter is a virtual machine.

I have over 50 hosts (don´t know all their names and IPs), all ESXi 4.1, and I´d like to know if there´s anyway I can discover in which one of them is my vCenter VM without having to log into each one of them.

[weinstein5]

You will need to access each one idvidually whether through the vSphere client or console to see what VMs are running on the host -

[nava_thulasi39]

Hi,

Additionally if you have vMA or Powercli, it's easy to search the VMs which is running by each & every ESXi Server.

Again It can be done searching every ESXi server.

[chriswahl]

If you can dump a list of your hostnames to a txt file, this script will search for your VM.

$vmsearchname is the name of the VM you are looking for

$esxhosts points to the txt file with the host names. It should be in the format of

name

Hostname1

Hostname2

Hostname3

$rootaccess provides the root password

$vmsearchname = "vCenter5"

[array]$esxhosts = Import-Csv c:\hosts.txt 

$rootaccess = Get-Credential -Credential root

foreach ($esxhost in $esxhosts)
    {
    Connect-VIServer -Server $esxhost.name -Credential $rootaccess

    Get-VM | %{If ($_.name -match $vmsearchname) {Write-Host "Found $($_.name) on $($esxhost.name)"}}
    }

[venkatfuture]

Hi Chriswahl00,

Excellent....