How to get VM name in output along with each of its adapters mac address

[PorzioM]

I am trying to come up with a way to get a list of all VMs in an environemnt with their adapters mac address. I'm trying to hunt down a possible duplicate mac address in a large virtual environment

what I have so far:

Get-VM | Get-View | Select-Object -Property Name, @{N=”MAC”;E={$_.MacAddress}} | Export-Csv C:\filename.csv -NoTypeInformation

This will get me the adapter name and the mac address but not the VM name. Can someone help me with the rest? thanks.

[RvdNieuwendijk]

Take a look at my blog post How to use VMware vSphere PowerCLI to find the MAC addresses of a virtual machine.

[display1284 · Accepted solution]

I don’t know what you consider large? We are hosting around 5k+ virtual servers and a few farms. If running on production system could take some major time

Search it all - Full dump
save as FullDumpMac.ps1

# FULL DUMP VM/Mac

$fullDump = Get-VM | ForEach-Object {
$VM = $_
if ($VM) {
$VM.Guest.Nics | Select-Object -Property @{N=”VM”;E={$VM.Name}},Macaddress
}
}
$fullDump | Export-Csv report.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture

Folder search

#Notice I am using a folder search from adjust to script to not have folder
$Dump = Get-Folder -Name demo | Get-VM | ForEach-Object {
$VM = $_
if ($VM) {
$VM.Guest.Nics | Select-Object -Property @{N=”VM”;E={$VM.Name}},Macaddress
  }
}
$Dump | Export-Csv report.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture

Best of Luck,

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