Monthly Archives: December 2011

Export the list of virtual machines to a CSV file

out-gridview powercli

Here is the script to collect vmware virtual machines details and export to an excel (.csv) using  vSphere PowerCLI commands. This will help Vmware administrator to take a report of Memory, CPU usage,  Data store, HDD space allocation, Host server, Guest OS etc..  here we are using command “get-vm” and “Select-Object” to filter the properties of virtual machine How to …

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List of VM Property Names in Vmware – vSphere PowerCLI

List of VM Property

VMware vSphere PowerCLI is a Powerful tool to automate the vmware infrastructure management. Here is the list of object names which you can use with “Get-vm” command. This object name will help you to create scripts with specific parameters like Host, Power State, CPU etc. Its also helpful to generate VM list (Inventory). Following list contains Object names and sample …

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Installation of Windows 8 Developer preview on VHD

It is better to try out window 8 on a VHD as the performance hit will be only on the HDD, rest everything will be on the actual hardware. Windows 8 Download link To install windows8 we can either burn a DVD or create a flash drive and install from it, here I’m using a flash drive. To create a …

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