Powershell VI Toolkit
April 21st, 2008
Filed under: Scripting, VMware
Today I combined a couple of Powershell scripts which as a result gives a nice html formatted file with a table. This table contains all VM’s with their VMware Tools status and version. I’ve uploaded the script here. The outcome looks like the following:
As you can see, the VMware tools status is “ok” but the versions are totally out of line. I know there are already a few tools handling this but as far as I know none of them creates a text/html output file.
April 25th, 2008 at 05:58
I have yet to dig into performance issues with Powershell but currently have a VC with over 350 host and over 1500 VM’s and running any powershell across the entire farm times out.
I still require this data and decided to extract the same excat thing via Bash from a vmware communites post only thing I changed from the post was to execute the commands into a Varible and then echo the varible in a CVS format so I can pop into excel
http://communities.vmware.com/message/733192#733192
But thank you for sharing how you did it with Powershell.
May 16th, 2008 at 17:50
this is exactly what i’m looking for… but it doesn’t work!
get the following error for each VM passed down the pipe line:
Get-View : Cannot bind parameter ‘MoRef’. Cannot convert value “VirtualMachine-vm-25442″ to type “VMware.Vim2.VimProxy.
ManagedObjectReference”. Error: “Invalid cast from ‘System.String’ to ‘VMware.Vim2.VimProxy.ManagedObjectReference’.”
At C:\tmp\vmTest.ps1:13 char:22
+ get-vm | % { get-view <<<< $_.ID } | select Name, @{ Name=”hostName”; Expression={$_.guest.hostName}}, @{ Name=”Tool
sStatus”; Expression={$_.guest.toolsstatus}}, @{ Name=”ToolsVersion”; Expression={$_.config.tools.toolsVersion}} | sort
-object name
May 16th, 2008 at 20:31
seems like a copy / paste problem with a ” sign or something like that? I tested it in several sites and it works fine here everytime.
Duncan