Powershell - Obtaining properties of virtual machines

[mpverr]

Greetings folks -

I've been playing around with powershell for VMware and am starting to get the hang of it. I was wondering if anyone had an example of powershell scripting that obtains the properties of the virtual machines. In particular, I was looking for things such as:

Disk break down and Size

Memory Assigned

MAC addresses

Many thanks

[hugopeeters]

Hi,

Try $a = Get-VM "TSTVM"

or $b = Get-VM "TSTVM" | Get-View

Use $a | Format-List *

or $b | Format-List *

to dig through all available properties.

[mpverr]

Thanks for that info - would you happen to have an example script of being able to get the MAC address in powershell?

[halr9000]

Read the help for the Get-NetworkAdapter cmdlet and you'll see it's really easy.

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