PowerCLI - VM manipulation

How to get vCPU count of all powered on VMs of particular ESX host

Get-VMHost -Name HostName | get-vm | Where {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"} | Measure-Object -Property NumCpu -Sum | select -ExpandProperty Sum

How to get count of all powered on VMs of particular ESX host

$a = Get-VMHost -Name HostName | get-vm | Where {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"} | select NumCpu; $a.count

How to get summary of VM snapshot size

$vms = get-vm; foreach ($vm in $vms) {$snap = get-vm -Name $vm.Name | Get-Snapshot | Measure-Object -Property SizeGB -Sum | Select Name -ExpandProperty Sum; if ($snap -gt 0) {$vm.Name, $snap}}

Get Canonical Name and Capacity of all Raw Devices (RDM) attached to each VM in the cluster

foreach ($v in $(get-cluster -Name Cluster Name | Get-VM)) {$v.Name; Get-VM -Name $v.Name | Get-HardDisk -DiskType RawPhysical | select ScsiCanonicalName,CapacityGB}

PowerCLI - Datastore manipulation


Get all LUNs connected to host

Get-Cluster -Name ClusterName | Get-VMHost -Name HostName | Get-ScsiLun

Get all "disk" LUNs connected to host

Get-Cluster -Name ClusterName | Get-VMHost -Name HostName | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk

Get alldatastores name, free space, capacity

Get-View -ViewType Datastore -Property Name, Info | Get-VIObjectByVIView

Set MultiPath Policy to "RoundRobin" on all LUNs which have not "RoundRobin" already

Get-Cluster -Name ClusterName | Get-VMHost -Name HostName | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk | Where {$_.MultiPathPolicy -ne "RoundRobin"} | Set-ScsiLun -MultiPathPolicy "RoundRobin"

Get full information of all LUNs connected to host (you can find here SAN device Model which will be used in next command)

Get-Cluster -Name ClusterName | Get-VMHost -Name HostName | Get-ScsiLun | fl

Set MultiPath Policy to "RoundRobin" on all LUNs where SAN model is "VRAID"

Get-Cluster -Name ClusterName | Get-VMHost -Name HostName | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk | Where {$_.MultiPathPolicy -ne "RoundRobin" -and $_.Model -eq "VRAID"} | Set-ScsiLun -MultiPathPolicy "RoundRobin"

Get Canonical Name ans Capacity of all LUNs attached to each host in the cluster

foreach ($v in $(get-cluster -Name ClusterName | Get-VMHost)) {$v.name; Get-VMHost -name $v.Name | Get-ScsiLun | select CanonicalName,CapacityGB}

Get Canonical Name and Prefered Path of all LUNs connected to host where Path Policy is set to "Fixed" and SAN model is not "VRAID"

Get-Cluster -Name ClusterName | Get-VMHost -Name HostName | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk | Where {$_.MultiPathPolicy -eq "Fixed" -and $_.Model -ne "VRAID"} | Get-ScsiLunPath | select ScsiCanonicalName, Name | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture -Path c:\test\zone1_path.csv

Get all Equallogic datastore path policy and iop to switch path

Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun | Where {$_.Vendor -eq "EQLOGIC"} | select VMHost, MultipathPolicy, CommandsToSwitchPath

Get all Equallogic datastore path policy to "RoundRobin" and iop to switch path to "3"

Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun | Where {$_.Vendor -eq "EQLOGIC"} | Set-ScsiLun -MultipathPolicy RoundRobin -CommandsToSwitchPath 3

Display all datastores attached to ESX hosts with their Canonical Names

get-vmhost -Name HostName | Get-Datastore | Where-Object {$_.ExtensionData.Info.GetType().Name -eq "VmfsDatastoreInfo"} | ForEach-Object { if ($_) {$Datastore = $_; $Datastore.ExtensionData.Info.Vmfs.Extent | Select-Object -Property @{Name="Name";Expression={$Datastore.Name}},DiskName}}

PowerCLI - How to get cluster resource information


Get cluster available resources and usage

Get-Cluster -Name ClusterName | get-vmhost | select Name, NumCpu, CpuUsageMhz, CPUTotalMhz, MemoryUsageGB, MemoryTotalGB | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture -Path c:\test\vent1.csv

Get all datastores per cluster

foreach ($cluster in Get-Cluster){Add-content fi $cluster.Name; Get-cluster -name $cluster.Name | Get-Datastore | select Name, FreeSpaceGB, CapacityGB}

Get all datastores per cluster and export to txt file

foreach ($cluster in Get-Cluster){Add-content "C:\test\test.txt" "$cluster"; Add-Content "C:\test\test.txt" "Name, FreeSpaceGB, CapacityGB"; $d=Get-cluster -name $cluster.Name | Get-Datastore | select Name, FreeSpaceGB, CapacityGB; $d | % {add-content "c:\test\test.txt" "$($_.Name), $($_.FreeSpaceGB), $($_.CapacityGB)"}}

Get count of all hosts cpu cores

Get-Cluster -Name SharedEnterprisePlus01 | Get-VMHost | Measure-Object -Property NumCpu -Sum | select -ExpandProperty Sum

Get list of all NOT empty resource pools in the cluster based on pool's VM's cpu count

$ResourcePools = Get-Cluster -Name ClusterName | Get-ResourcePool
foreach ($Pool in $ResourcePools){$a = Get-ResourcePool -Name $Pool.Name | Get-VM | Measure-Object -Property NumCpu -Sum | select -ExpandProperty Sum; if($a -gt 0) {$Pool.Name}}

Get list of all VMs which have "prod" in their name and summary information about disk size

$a = get-vm | where{$_.Name -like "*prod*"}; foreach ($v in $a) {Write-Host $v.Name; Get-HardDisk -vm $v.name | Measure-Object -Property CapacityGB -Sum | select -ExpandProperty Sum}

Get list of all VMs which have "prod" in their name and summary information about disk size and write to txt file. I've used Write-Host commands to display output on the screen too.

$a = get-vm; foreach ($v in $a) {$s = Get-HardDisk -vm $v.name | Measure-Object -Property CapacityGB -Sum | select -ExpandProperty Sum; $s | %{Add-Content "d:\iso\vm.txt" "$($v.Name), $($_)"}; Write-Host $v.Name; Write-Host $s}

PowerCLI – How to get Vmware tools version


Get vmtools version for all VMs


get-vm | % {get-view $_.id} | select Name,@{Name="Tools Version"; Expression={$_.Config.tools.toolsversion}}, @{ Name="Tool Status"; Expression={$_.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus}}

Get vmtools version for all VMs from a cluster

get-cluster -Name ClusterName | get-vm | % {get-view $_.id} | select Name, @{Name="Tools Version"; Expression={$_.Config.tools.toolsversion}}, @{ Name="Tool Status"; Expression={$_.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus}}

Get vmtools version for all powered on VMs

get-vm | where {$_.powerstate -eq "PoweredOn"} | % {get-view $_.id} | select Name, @{Name="Tools Version"; Expression={$_.Config.tools.toolsversion}}, @{ Name="Tool Status"; Expression={$_.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus}}

List all VMs with out of date vmtools

get-vm | where {$_.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus -ne "guestToolsCurrent"} | % {get-view $_.id} | select Name, @{Name="Tools Version"; Expression={$_.Config.tools.toolsversion}}, @{ Name="Tool Status"; Expression={$_.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus}}

Get vmtools for all VMs with Microsoft operating system

get-cluster -Name ClusterName | get-vm | % {get-view $_.id} | where {$_.config.guestfullname -like "*Microsoft*"} | select Name, @{Name="OS Version"; Expression={$_.config.guestfullname}}, @{Name="Tools Version"; Expression={$_.Config.tools.toolsversion}}, @{Name="Tools Status"; Expression={$_.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus2}}

Get vmtools version for all VMs exported to csv file

get-vm | % {get-view $_.id} | select Name, @{Name="Tools Version"; Expression={$_.Config.tools.toolsversion}}, @{ Name="Tool Status"; Expression={$_.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus}} | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture -Path C:\Tools\ToolsVersion.csv

How to register Avamar VMware Proxy with Avamar


Step 1 (optional):

Set the new Proxy hostname

1.     Log into the proxy via ssh using putty. Username root, password avam@r
2.     Run this script . /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_set_hostname proxy_name (where proxy_name is the name you want to give to the proxy.
3.     Then vi the file /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_set_hostname and look for the variable: HOSTNAME="localhost.localdom"
4.     Change the "localhost.localdom" to the name you gave the proxy in step 2
5.     Reboot the proxy
6.     Add VM Proxy name and IP address to the host file:/etc/hosts

Step 2:

Register the Proxy with Avamar

1.     Log in as user root and default password – avam@r (if not changed)
2.     Run the command /usr/local/avamarclient/etc/initproxyappliance.sh –start
3.     Provide the Avamar FQDN
4.     Provide the domain to register the proxy
5.     Type the new Avamar Software root password different from default value.