Powercli list VM's Portgroups

[zhornsby]

i am running vCenter 6.0 and i need to list all of my VM's and their assigned portgroup names via powercli

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Try like this

Get-VM | Get-NetworkAdapter |

Select @{N='VM';E={$_.Parent.Name}},Name,NetworkName

[zhornsby]

your a hero. if you dont mind, can you break down that command for me? so i know exactly whats going on?

what is @{N='VM';E={$_.Parent.Name}},Name,NetworkName calling out exactly?

[LucD]

Sure, a PowerShell/PowerCLI cmdlet most of the time returns an object.

With the pipeline we can pass the output of one cmdlet (get-VM) as input to another cmdlet (Get-NetworkAdapter).

The resulting object contains a number of properties.

Properties on level 1 (the top-level of the object), can be referred to in a Select-Object with their name (Name,NetworkName).

Properties that are nested can be retrieved by what is called a calculated property.

A calculated property is in fact a hash table with two elements.

The Name (N) part and an Execute (E) part.

In the Execute part we can refer to nested properties (we refer to the object with $_), and we even can do calculations or complete code blocks in there.

I hope that helps