Comments on: Powershell VI Toolkit

By: Duncan Epping

Duncan Epping — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:31:43 +0000

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

By: james

james — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:50:09 +0000

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

By: Daniel Hernandez

Daniel Hernandez — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:58:35 +0000

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.