Powercli : One-liners

Over the last few months I started learning Powercli and wrote different PowerCLI One-liners while working. I will add more in the list later on by updating this post.

-          Get all VM names with powerstat in a cluster and export result to a csv :-

Get-Cluster mycluster| Get-VM | select Name, PowerState |Export-CSV 'C:\Users\aj\Desktop\test.csv'

-          Get a list of all VMs in a cluster and the datastore in which the VMs resides

Get-Cluster | Get-VM | select name, @{N="Datastore";E={Get-Datastore -VM $_}} | sort name

-          Get poweron VM names :-

Get-VM | select name,powerstate | ?{$_.powerstat -match "PowerON"}

-          Get vmware tools status :-

Get-vm |% { get-view $_.id } | select Name, @{ Name=”Tools Status”; Expression={$_.guest.toolsstatus}}, @{ Name=”Tools Running Status”; E={$_.guest.toolsrunningstatus}}

-          Enable SSH on all hosts

Get-VMHost | Foreach {Start-VMHostService -HostService ($_ | Get-VMHostService | Where { $_.Key -eq "TSM-SSH"} )}

-          Check on which hosts SSH is enabled

Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostService | Where { $_.Key -eq "TSM-SSH" } |select VMHost, Label, Running

-          Get esx info with additional details like dc name , build number,model,cpu,memory etc :-

get-vmhost | Select Name, @{N="Cluster";E={Get-Cluster -VMHost $_}},@{N="Datacenter";E={Get-Datacenter -VMHost $_}}, Manufacturer,Model,Version,Build,NumCpu,@{N="MemoryTotal(GB)"; E={[math]::round($_.MemoryTotalGB)}}| Export-csv 'C:\Users\aj\Desktop\esxinfo.csv'

-          Lockdown mode enable/disbale :-

$Scope = Get-VMHost #This will change the Lockdown Mode on all hosts managed by vCenter

foreach ($ESXhost in $Scope) {

(get-vmhost $ESXhost | get-view).ExitLockdownMode() # To DISABLE Lockdown Mode

#(get-vmhost $ESXhost | get-view).EnterLockdownMode() # To ENABLE Lockdown Mode

}