Understand Basic Commands - vSphere Power CLI

Understand Basic Commands – vSphere Power CLI

After Connecting to vCenter from POwer CLI Follow below commands

List Datacenter Inventory

> Get-Datacenter

Name

—-

DATACENTER NAME

List Cluster Inventory

> Get-Cluster

Name HAEnabled HAFailover DrsEnabled DrsAutomationLevel

Level

—- ——— ———- ———- ——————

Cluster Name True 0 False FullyAutomated

List Complete HOST Inventory

> Get-VMHost

Name Connection PowerState NumCpu CpuUsage CpuTotal Memory Memory Version

State MhzMhz UsageGB TotalGB

—- ———– ——- —– ——- ——– ——– ——– ——

esxi-01 Connected PoweredOn 8 387 19200 24.840 159.990 6.0.0

esxi-02 Connected PoweredOn 8 2730 19200 48.579 159.990 6.0.0

List Complete VM Inventory

> Get-VM –

Name PowerState Num CPUs MemoryGB

—- ———- ——– ——–

TESTVM PoweredOn 4 4.000

List Datastore Inventory

>Get-Datastore

Name FreeSpaceGB CapacityGB

——- —————- ————-

esxi-01(Local) 130.802 131.750

esxi-02(Local) 130.802 131.750

List vswitch Inventory

> Get-VirtualSwitch

Name NumPorts Mtu Notes

——- ———— —– ——-

vSwitch0 3072 1500

vSwitch1 3072 1500

List Portgroup Inventory

> Get-VirtualPortGroup

Name Key VLanId

———– ——– ——–

VmNeetwork1 Key-vim.host.PortGroup-VmNeetwork1 122

VmNeetwork2 key-vim.host.PortGroup-VmNeetwork2 123

Generate complete snapshot inventory with few details

> get-vm | Get-Snapshot

Name Description PowerState
——– ———– ————-
VM Tools PoweredOn
VM Tools PoweredOn
Restore Point Avamar Snapshot generated for back PoweredOff