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Get Virtual Machine list reside on VMware Datastore

Virtual machine reside on datastore and you do not care in which cluster they are

(Get-Datastore -Name 'datastore_name').Extensiondata.Vm|%{(Get-View -Id $_.toString()).name}

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How to scan HBA Vmware ESXi Vmware Power CLI

Connect to your ESX or VCenter Server

Connect-VIServer -Server 192.168.1.10 -Protocol https -User Administrator@vsphere.local -Password P@ssw0rd

To Scan all ESXi hosts is Cluster
Get-Cluster ‘cluster name‘ | Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba

To scan single ESX host

Get-VMHost ‘192.168.1.11‘ | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba

How to get vms, with their current ips, macaddresses, networkcard types

Below are the script i got to get all VM name UUID, VLAN assigned, MAC address , IP address,Network card type.

Its export in CSV .

$reportedvms=New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
$vms=get-view -viewtype virtualmachine  |Sort-Object -Property {  $_.Config.Hardware.Device |  where {$_ -is [VMware.Vim.VirtualEthernetCard]} |  Measure-Object | select -ExpandProperty Count} -Descending
 
foreach($vm in $vms){
  $reportedvm = New-Object PSObject
  Add-Member -Inputobject $reportedvm -MemberType noteProperty -name Guest -value $vm.Name
  Add-Member -InputObject $reportedvm -MemberType noteProperty -name UUID -value $($vm.Config.Uuid)
$networkcards=$vm.guest.net | ?{$_.DeviceConfigId -ne -1}
$i=0
foreach($ntwkcard in $networkcards){
Add-Member -InputObject $reportedvm -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "networkcard${i}.Network" -Value $ntwkcard.Network
Add-Member -InputObject $reportedvm -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "networkcard${i}.MacAddress" -Value $ntwkcard.Macaddress  
Add-Member -InputObject $reportedvm -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "networkcard${i}.IpAddress" -Value $($ntwkcard.IpAddress|?{$_ -like "*.*"})
Add-Member -InputObject $reportedvm -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "networkcard${i}.Device" -Value $(($vm.config.hardware.device|?{$_.key -eq $($ntwkcard.DeviceConfigId)}).gettype().name)
$i++
}
$reportedvms.add($reportedvm)|Out-Null
}
 
$reportedvms|Export-Csv C:\PCLITEST\inventry\networkcard.csv

VMware Datastores free space report PowerCLI

VMware Datastores free space report PowerCLI.

Below script will give below report as used space and percentage of free space .

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test.ps1 is not digitally signed. The script will not execute on the system

The fix is to run Set-ExecutionPolicy and change the Execution Policy setting.

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass

How to Configuring an NTP Time Server on ESXi PowerCLI

If there are no NTP server configured

Get-VMHost esx01 | Add-VMHostNtpServer -NtpServer ntpservername

Or to first of all clear existing NTP server(s) then set the new one:

Get-VMHost esx01 | Remove-VMHostNtpServer -NtpServer (Get-VMHost esx01 | Get-VMHostNtpServer)
Get-VMHost esx01 | Add-VMHostNtpServer -NtpServer ntpservername

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How to check VMFS version & block sizes PowerCLI

Get-Datastore | Get-View | Select-Object Name,@{N="VMFS version";E={$_.Info.Vmfs.Version}},@{N="BlocksizeMB";E={$_.Info.Vmfs.BlockSizeMB}}

NameVMFS 	      version   BlocksizeMB
----------------    -----------
TempDS                  5.58 	 1
datastore1              5.54  	 1
datastore1 (3)          5.54  	 1
datastore1 (1)          5.54  	 1
datastore1 (4)          5.54  	 1
datastore1 (7)          5.54  	 1
datastore1 (6)          5.54  	 1

How to get HBA information of all ESXi Hosts

if you want to get all inventory of HBA cards from all ESXi hosts below are the script will give you below information ,which you require in SAN Zoning and SAN LUN mapping.