VMware powerCli Commands


Open powercli and connect Vcenter using following command

connect-viserver vcenter.domain.com

list of VMware Tools

get-vm | % { get-view $_.id } | select Name, @{ Name="ToolsVersion"; Expression={$_.config.tools.toolsVersion}},@{ Name="ToolStatus"; Expression={$_.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus}}


list of the Vmware tools on each powered on virtual machine

get-vm | where {$_.powerstate -ne "PoweredOff" } | % { get-view $_.id } | select Name, @{ Name="ToolsVersion"; Expression={$_.config.tools.toolsVersion}},@{ Name="ToolStatus"; Expression={$_.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus}}

list of the Vmware tools that are not up to date on each powered on virtual machine
get-vm | where {$_.powerstate -ne "PoweredOff" } | where {$_.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus -ne "guestToolsCurrent"} | % { get-view $_.id } | select Name, @{ Name="ToolsVersion"; Expression={$_.config.tools.toolsVersion}}, @{ Name="ToolStatus"; Expression={$_.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus}}

you can using the following expression to output to CSV to all commands


 | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture -Path C:\output.csv

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