Automatically get a list of installed virtual machines

[Yacc]

Hello,

After selecting the root "Host & Clusters" in VMware Infrastructure Client I open "Virtual Machines" tag and I got list of all machines. Then with clicking right button of mouse I open local menu and have option "Export List...", so I can export it to text file. Of course, I must make it manually. Is there a possibility to automatize this behaviour? I mean I'd like to get this list of servers every day, let's say at 1PM. It should be automatically created for example as text file on esx server or sent to me as email. Is this possible from VMWare Infrastructure Client or esx server?

Yacc

[AntonVZhbankov]

You can easily do it with VI Toolkit (Powershell).

>get-vm

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[Yacc]

Thank you for the answer! I've just downloaded VMware Infrastructure Toolkit for Windows 1.5 - is this what you mean? How should I install it - just on VMWare Infrastructure Client?

Yacc.

[AntonVZhbankov · Accepted solution]

You can install it even on your desktop. But you need Microsoft Powershell to work with it.

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[runclear]

as Anton said, get the VI tool kit (install this after you install powershell)

then run >get-vm if you want the list exported.. you can do something like,

>get-vm | export-csv -path c:\file.csv

and presto, you will have your list.

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[Yacc]

Thank you very much. I've installed Windows PowerShell and then VMWare VI Toolkit and it works correctly.

Yac

[vcpguy]

Though, we can get the excel file by this command, but still formatting wise, it is not the same, what we can get via VI Client and also how to make a schedule task so that this cmd runs at a pre-defined time?

Thanks

[Yacc]

For the first part of your question, I've found the following thread: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/221214

For the second part, you can for example use Windows Scheduler and run the script at given time.

Yac.

[ippup]

is there any way to get a list of VM's from linux ? (ViMA?)