Dell BIOS version of ESX Hosts.

[Guv]

We use esxi 4.1 and virtual centre 4.1, and they are running on Dell Poweredge servers.  To be precise they are running Dell Poweredge R815.  Is there a script we can run to get the BIOS version of these esx servers.   In virtual centre we have a hardware status tab which can show the bios version of the Dell server,instead of me going through each one, can i get a script to list the esx host and their bios version.

[RvdNieuwendijk]

You can try:

Get-VMHost | Select-Object -Property name,@{N="BiosVersion";E={$_.ExtensionData.Hardware.Biosinfo.BiosVersion}}

[monderick]

script i use for our Dell servers, extremely likely i got it from this forum but can't find the thread at the moment.

nicely formatted results and gives BIOS date as well.

$report = @()

Get-View -ViewType HostSystem | %{

     $row = "" |Select Name, "BIOS Version", "BIOS Date"

     $row.name = $_.name

     $biosTemp = ((($_.Runtime.HealthSystemRuntime.SystemHealthInfo.NumericSensorInfo | Where {$_.Name -like "*BIOS*"}).Name -split "BIOS ")[1] -split " ")

     $row."BIOS Version" = $biosTemp[0]

     $row."BIOS Date" = $biosTemp[1]

     $report += $row

}

$report | sort name | Format-Table -autosize

[Guv]

Is it possible to add the type of server model such as what type of dell poweredge server like poweredge r815.

[RvdNieuwendijk]

I added the hardware model to monderick's script and made some small improvements:

$report = @()
Get-View -ViewType HostSystem -Property Name,
  Hardware.SystemInfo.Model,
  Runtime.HealthSystemRuntime.SystemHealthInfo.NumericSensorInfo |
Foreach-Object {
     $row = "" |Select Name, Model, "BIOS Version", "BIOS Date"
     $row.name = $_.name
     $row.Model = $_.Hardware.SystemInfo.Model
     $biosTemp = ((($_.Runtime.HealthSystemRuntime.SystemHealthInfo.NumericSensorInfo |
       Where {$_.Name -like "*BIOS*"}).Name -split "BIOS ")[1] -split " ")
     $row."BIOS Version" = $biosTemp[0]
     $row."BIOS Date" = $biosTemp[1]
     $report += $row
}
$report | Sort-Object -Property Name | Format-Table -autosize

[monderick]

thanks Robert, updated the script on my end with yours

[markdjones82]

FYI there is also a Dell Plugin into Vcenter if you haven't seen it which is nice to get info on your servers.  Although you do have to push a VIB and install a virtual machine.