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[VJ_VMware_111]

Hey Guys,

I am trying to get OS, CPU, RAM, Disk information of a set of VMs from a text file. But the below script does not give OS. Can you please check it, and tell what can be wrong?

Connect-VIServer vcenter

Get-VM -Name (Get-Content "C:\VMs.txt") |

Select Name, @{N="OS";E={Get-View $_.config.guestFullName}}, @{N="CPU";E={$_.numCPU}}, @{N="RAM";E={$_.memoryMB}}, @{N="HardDiskSizeGB";E={(Get-HardDisk -VM $_. | Measure-Object -Sum CapacityGB).Sum}}

Thanks,

VJ

[RvdNieuwendijk · Accepted solution]

You can get the OS with the following PowerCLI script:

Connect-VIServer vcenter

Get-VM -Name (Get-Content "C:\VMs.txt") |

Select Name, @{N="OS";E={$_.Guest.OSFullName}}, @{N="CPU";E={$_.numCPU}}, @{N="RAM";E={$_.memoryMB}}, @{N="HardDiskSizeGB";E={(Get-HardDisk -VM $_. | Measure-Object -Sum CapacityGB).Sum}}

[VJ_VMware_111]

Thanks it works. I am not sure why '$_.config.guestFullName' does not yield the OS though. I tried with and without Get-View, as shown below. It works in my other script (without get-view), but not in this one.

@{N="OS";E={$_.config.guestFullName}}

@{N="OS";E={Get-View $_.config.guestFullName}}

[RvdNieuwendijk]

You could also use:

@{N="OS";E={$_.ExtensionData.config.guestFullName}}

or:

@{N="OS";E={(Get-View $_).config.guestFullName}}

In your other script, the value in $_ is probably of type VMware.Vim.VirtualMachine instead of VirtualMachineImpl or UniversalVirtualMachineImpl.

[VJ_VMware_111]

Okay. thanks a lot.