Recently I needed to create a script to get a list of all virtual machines in a specific ESXi host. Surprisingly I had to search high and low on the internet to figure this out.
This is perplexing I mean its very straightforward to get the VMs in a datastore with
Get-VM -Datastore <datastore_name>you would think getting all the virtual machines on a ESXi host would be more important than that! Work on this VMware – give us a Get-VM -VMHost!
But I digress – this is how you get the list of virtual machines on a ESXi host… I mean I was ranting up there but it’s really not that difficult, just that there’s no proper documentation on it
Get-VMHost -Name <Host_name> | Get-VMAnd that’s all there is to it. But it’s not that intuitive, you wouldn’t think piping through the host name to Get-VM would do anything right? Anyways this one-liner saved my bacon, and I hope it would be useful to you as well!
Till the next time – happy scripting!
Thanks! Useful…