Wrong quantity of VMSockets

[Dimon_SPB]

Made a simple script:

$VM = get-vm -name ********SQL03
$VMview = get-view $oneVM
$VMCores = $VMview.config.hardware.numcorespersocket
$VMSockets = $VMview.Config.Hardware.NumCPU
$VMCPU = $VM.NumCPU
Write-Host $oneVM.Name -ForegroundColor Cyan
Write-Host "VMCores   - $VMCores" -ForegroundColor Magenta
Write-Host "VMSockets - $VMSockets" -ForegroundColor Magenta
Write-Host "VMCPU     - $VMCPU" -ForegroundColor Magenta

Received strange results.

it turns out to receive VMSockets value through PowerCLI - it is impossible

[LucD · Accepted solution]

It is possible to do that, but I'm afraid you are interpreting the properties incorrectly.

If you look up the VirtualHardware object in the API Reference, you'll see that it says

The NumCpu property is the total number of vCPU on the VM.
So you have to divide this number by the NumCoresPerSocket to find the number of CPU sockets.

This should provide the correct values

$VM = Get-VM -name MyVM

$VMCoresPerSocket = $VM.ExtensionData.config.hardware.numcorespersocket

$VMSockets = $VM.ExtensionData.Config.Hardware.NumCPU / $VMCoresPerSocket

$VMCPU = $VM.NumCPU

Write-Host $oneVM.Name -ForegroundColor Cyan

Write-Host "VMCores Per Socket - $VMCoresPerSocket" -ForegroundColor Magenta

Write-Host "VMSockets - $VMSockets" -ForegroundColor Magenta

Write-Host "VMCPU - $VMCPU" -ForegroundColor Magenta