In order to retrieve a list of virtual machines which are reporting t the issue ‘Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed’ we can invoke the Get-VM cmdlet to determine if a virtual machine consolidation is required. $VMs = Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.ExtensionData.RunTime.ConsolidationNeeded} To consolidate snapshots for a collection of virtual machines we can now perform the following, … More PowerCLI: Consolidating virtual machine disks