VM Hot-Add, Hot-Plug List

[DaddyDee]

Hi community,

Can anyone provide me with a PowerCLI script which will identify Guest VMs within vCenter which have Hot-Add, Hot-Plug enabled?  We've recently migrated a group of Linux VMs (RHEL 6) into a new vCenter Server and enabled feature, but have come across one where Hot-Plug was missed!!  Just want to ensure there are not others we've missed too.

Thanks in advance.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Check out Arne's post PowerCLI: Check CPU/Memory Hot Add

[DaddyDee]

LucD, you're the dogs bollocks!!! :smileycool:

[LucD]

Thanks (after consulting the Urban Dictionary) :smileygrin:

[DaddyDee]

Haa-haa.. No worries.

Just one other thing?  How would I incorporate desired operating system to run below script against, in this case Red hat 6?

Get-VM | Get-View | Select Name, `

@{N="CpuHotAddEnabled";E={$_.Config.CpuHotAddEnabled}}, `

@{N="CpuHotRemoveEnabled";E={$_.Config.CpuHotRemoveEnabled}}, `

@{N="MemoryHotAddEnabled";E={$_.Config.MemoryHotAddEnabled}} |

This is the only reliable RHEL version in production that fully supports Hot-add, Hot-plug.

Thanks in advance.

[LucD]

Do you mean to filter on only VMs with that guest OS?

Assuming you have VMware Tools installed on all VMs, you can do the following.

Note I used the Get-View directly, should be a bit faster.

Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{'Guest.GuestFullName'="^Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"} |

Select Name, `

@{N='OS';E={$_.Guest.GuestFullName}},

@{N="CpuHotAddEnabled";E={$_.Config.CpuHotAddEnabled}},

@{N="CpuHotRemoveEnabled";E={$_.Config.CpuHotRemoveEnabled}},

@{N="MemoryHotAddEnabled";E={$_.Config.MemoryHotAddEnabled}}

[DaddyDee]

Magic!! That did the trick!!

Many thanks as always LucD.