modify output or exceptions for list of VMs

[Mizzou_RobMan]

I have the following script that looks at all VMs in vCenter and emails once a week to list VMs that reside on the standard vSwitch.  Per our security group we can't have any production VMs residing on a standard vSwitch.  For other reasons we don't set our templates to DvSwitch.

I have VMs that are templates so when I run the following weekly script I'd like to tag or append the displayed output with "-template" or perhaps even not display the templates.

Any thoughts?

########################################################

# Purpose: Determine all VMs that reside on standard vSwitch

#                and emails when complete

########################################################

# Notes:   does NOT use Send-MailMessage @messageParameters -BodyAsHtml

########################################################

#setup Environment

add-pssnapin vmware.vimautomation.core

initialize-vitoolkitenvironment.ps1

. c:\scripts\vmwarevars.ps1

#need this to disable proxy settings

set-powercliconfiguration -proxypolicy noproxy -confirm:$false

#connect to selected Virtualcenter or host server

Connect-VIServer -Server $SERVER -Protocol $PROTOCOL -User $USERNAME -Password $PASSWORD

#name of portgroup whose VMs to get info on

$strPortgroupName = "VM Network"

#$GetVMList= All VMs that are attached to $strPortgroupName

$GetVMList = Get-View -ViewType Network -Property Name,VM -Filter @{"Name" = $strPortgroupName}

#use $variable (in this case $GetVMList) to print to screen or use write-host $variable

#$GetVMList

#$Id= Id of VM (ex: VirtualMachine-vm-xxxxx)

#$VMView= retrieves Name of VM

#`r = Carriage return `n = New line

foreach ($Id in $GetVMList.VM) {

$VMView = Get-View -Id $Id

$VMView.Name

$msgreport = $msgreport + $VMView.Name + "`n"

}

#disconnect viserver session to clean things up

disconnect-viserver -confirm:$false

#Email HTML Results

$SmtpClient = new-object system.net.mail.smtpClient

$MailMessage = New-Object system.net.mail.mailmessage

$SmtpServer = "emailserver.mydomain.com"

$SmtpClient.host = $SmtpServer

$MailMessage.From = "sender@mydomain.com"

$MailMessage.To.add("receiver@mydomain.com")

$MailMessage.Subject = "$SERVER VMs on '$strPortgroupName' standard vSwitch"

$MailMessage.IsBodyHtml = 0

$MailMessage.Body = $msgreport

$SmtpClient.Send($MailMessage)

The output is similiar to the following:

Win2k8r2

Win2k8

Win2k3Std32bit

SuseBase

UbuntuBase

[LucD]

Just to make sure, you want to also list the templates that are connected to a portgroup on a dvSwitch ?

If yes, will you provide the name of the portgroup ?

Or should the script do a generic search for dvSwitch portgroups ?

[CRad14]

If I am reading your request correctly...it should be as easy as setting up a switch parameter then finding all the templates...you may want to look at the template format to be something you are looking for...hope this helps

param([switch]$template)

if($template)

$vmtemplates=get-template

[Mizzou_RobMan]

LucD:

Thanks for presenting at VMworld.

I am only concerned with generic dvSwitch portgroups.

Thanks,

Rob

[LucD]

Thanks, much appreciated.

To get all the templates that are attached to portgroups on dvSwitches, you use something like this

Get-VirtualSwitch -Distributed | Get-VirtualPortGroup | %{
  if($_.ExtensionData.Vm){
    Get-View -Id $_.ExtensionData.Vm |
    where {$_.Config.Template} |
    Select Name
  }
}

It gets each dvSwitch portgroup and looks at the connected VirtualMachines. On those it only selects the ones that are Templates.