For reporting purposes, I maintain an Excel sheet containing information on my server base. I update this sheet on a weekly basis. Part of the information displayed in this sheet comes from a PowerShell script I have created to extract the required data from our vCenters.

This script pulls the following information for every VM running the vCenter environment: VM Name, Hardware version, VMware tools status, guest OS, number of vCPU’s, amount of assigned RAM, the host the VM runs on, the cluster the VM is assigned to, the folder it lives in, the power status, number of NICs, the NIC types and the vCenter it runs on (in case you have more than 1). Continue reading Inventory VMware virtual machines →