Automation

Hi All

Have been trying to create a script to simply count the number of NICs in a VM ?!? In all honesty havent a clue where to start ?!??! I do know there is a count 'property' but can't get to figure out how I can incorporate this into counting the Nics

Thanks ALOT in advance

Munster

Try this

(Get-Vm <VM-name>).NetworkAdapters.Count

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Oops, seems my reply got submitted twice.

Thanks LucD

But my script seems to be a mess. Can you help please (NEWBIE I'm afraid)

$vms = Get-VM

foreach ($vm in $vms)

{

$vmNameExp = @{N = "VMName"; E = {$vm.name} }

$vmNicCount = @{N = "VMNICCount"; E = {$vm.Networkadapters.count} }

}

Write-Host $vmNameExp, $vmNicCount

I know I messed up - an you help please

Munster

Try it this way

$vms = Get-VM

foreach ($vm in $vms) 
{
	$vm | Select @{N = "VMName"; E = {$vm.name} },
		@{N = "VMNICCount"; E = {$vm.Networkadapters.count} }
}

Inside the foreach loop, you select from each $vm the Name and the NIC count.

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Twitter: lucd22

This works too:

Get-VM | Select-Object -property name, @{name="nicCount"; expression = {$_.networkadapters.count}}

And if you want to only list all VMs with more than 1 NIC:

Get-VM | where-object {$_.networkadapters.count -gt 1} | Select-Object -property name, @{name="nicCount"; expression = {$_.networkadapters.count}}

The solution by LucD didn't work for me, but I found this worked must faster than looping through a foreach. 

New-VIProperty -Name NICs -ObjectType VirtualMachine -ValueFromExtensionProperty 'summary.Config.numEthernetcards'  -Force

Get-VM