PowerCLI: Oneliners

This page could be dedicated to Hugo Peeters as he's been supplying the community with very useful powershell oneliners for a while. But he's not the only supplier anymore as more links are getting added.

• Oneliner: Service Console IP with PowerCLI

• Checking VMware NTP configuration with Powershell

• Oneliner: Get Logged on Users with Powershell

• Statistics: Average CPU and memory usage

• Statistics: Number of CPUs, amount of memory assigned, Average CPU and memory usage

• Copy Active Directory Description to your VM

• Memory Usage statistics sorted per VM

• Statistics: Top 20 VM with least free disk space

• Get all events per VM

• Get all errors from the past 24 hours

• Get all errors related to a cluster

• Get all events related to DRS

• Check the Usage of your datastore

• Get a list of vm's and the number of snapshots per vm

• Statistics: Hosts whose CPU reached red Load level

• Number of VM's per Resource Pool

• How many VM's per Host

• Display Host Hardware information

• Reset CPU and Memory limits to “Unlimited” for all VMs in vCenter

• Get name of the VM and the network adapter for supplied Mac address

• Get names of VM's not yet upgraded to vSphere

• Get names of VM's not yet upgraded to vSphere and VM Tools not upgraded

• Cluster name, ESX host and the total running VM’s on the host

• Hostname with the least running VM’s on it

• List all VMDK files for VM's stored on local storage