PowerCLI - get Image Profile information of ESXi host

[DyJohnnY]

I am trying to build a report which shows the ESXi Image profile information (the information present in the summary tab of an ESXI host, in the vSphere Client).

I have found that there is a view which shows this information

$hostview = Get-View -viewtype hostsystem

(Get-View -Id $hostview[0].ConfigManager.ImageConfigManager).HostImageConfigGetProfile() | Select * | format-list

However this is a bit slow, and I have a few hundred hosts to report on.

Is there any way I can get All the ConfigManager.ImageConfigManager information for all hosts instead of getting the view of each host?

[Gidrakos]

You'll want to use the Get-VMHost command, then use Select-Object to grab the info you want

Get-VMHost * | Get-View | Select-Object -expandProperty ConfigManager

That will expand all the ConfigManager properties and show you everything per-host. If you just want to see which ConfigManager is applied to each, remove the -expandProperty.

If you need to do this on a per-DataCenter basis, you can prepend the command above with Get-DataCenter [dc-name]

[DyJohnnY]

That's not quite what I was looking for.

The ConfigManager will return all of the MoRef-IDs of all the "views" of each host, see below.

You still have to call get-view and then call a method to get the actual profile information.

For example, with 3000 hosts you need to call get-view 3000 times on each of these hosts's ImageConfigManager Moref.

I was wondering if I could get the ImageProfile Information from another object, much like we do get-view -viewtype HostSystem, or any other ConfigManager like object

[Tibmeister]

Try this:

(get-view ((get-vmhost myvmhost.mycompany.com).ExtensionData.ConfigManager.ImageConfigManager)).HostImageConfigGetProfile()

Name   : (Updated) Vmware-ESXi-6.0.0-3620759-Custom-Cisco-6.0.2.1

Vendor : Cisco

So, if you wanted to get this for all hosts, you can try something along these lines, report style:

$outObj = foreach ($vmhost in (get-vmhost))

{

   $ImageConfigMgr = (get-view ($vmhost.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.ImageConfigManager)).HostImageConfigGetProfile()

   New-Object PSObject -Property @{

      esxiHost       = $vmhost.Name

      vCenterCluster = ($vmhost | get-cluster).Name

      ImageName      = $ImageConfigMgr.Name

      ImageVendor = $ImageConfigMgr.Vendor

   }

}

Now this is probably the fastest way without getting into native code, but no matter what you will need to do at least one get-view call.  I can pull 30 hosts in around a minute, so not bad.  You could have this run as a scheduled task then either save the output object as a cliXML, shove it into a database, or just generate a report.

Hope this helps give you a start.