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nentwich
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Posted - 05/23/2012 :  3:12:19 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Everyone,

I am in the process of starting the upgrade process of my company's VSphere 4.1 env to VSphere 5.0. I have over a 1,000 plus guest machines running in my environment.

Before the upgrade I need some information about my guest OS such as version of the VMWare tools that are running on the guest OSs, virtual machine version and etc. I wanted to know if anyone could point me toward some scripts which can gather this information about my env for me?

Thanks in advance for everyone's help.

Joel Nentwich

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Posted - 05/23/2012 :  3:42:09 PM  Show Profile  Visit Playwell's Homepage  Click to see Playwell's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
take a look at the free quest powershell powergui. They have in built scripts for those inventories.

www.quest.com/powershell
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JSCLMEDAVE
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Posted - 05/23/2012 :  3:50:53 PM  Show Profile  Visit JSCLMEDAVE's Homepage  Click to see JSCLMEDAVE's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
What Ton said and also get the snap-in for PowerCLI

Here are a couple links
PowerGUI® Pro and PowerGUI® 3.0 are now available
http://poshoholic.com/2011/07/15/powergui-pro-and-powergui-3-0-are-now-available/

Five must-have vSphere PowerCLI scripts
http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/news/1508618/Five-must-have-vSphere-PowerCLI-scripts

10 Steps to Kick-Start Your VMware Automation with PowerCLI
http://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/virtualization/10-steps-to-kick-start-your-vmware-automation-with-powercli/
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jaxdave
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Posted - 05/23/2012 :  10:04:40 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
once connected to your vcenter you could run something like this. This targets a particular datacenter and will export out to csv for you.

Get-Datacenter Datacenter name | Get-VM | Select Name, Version, ToolsVersion, ToolsVersionStatus | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture -Path C:\Temp\MyvmtoolsInfo.csv

cheers
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