There are a number of operations management tools available which can allow you to discover virtual machines which can be categorised as idle, where they continue to run with a low utilisation profile and can be part of the overall VM sprawl in your environment. I was recently investigating how to retrieve Idle VMs based … More PowerCLI: Discover Idle VMs
The below script block will retrieve VMs where either or both CPU and Memory reservation has been configured and return the value by using the Get-VM cmdlet and retriving the value of both the ‘ExtensionData.ResourceConfig.CpuAllocation.Reservation’ and ‘ExtensionData.ResourceConfig.MemoryAllocation.Reservation’ properties. $VMs = Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.ExtensionData.ResourceConfig.MemoryAllocation.Reservation -ne “0” -or $_.ExtensionData.ResourceConfig.CpuAllocation.Reservation -ne “0”} ForEach ($VM in $VMs) … More PowerCLI: Retrieve VMs where CPU or Memory Reservation has been enabled
As the extended support end date looms nearer for Windows Server 2003 R2 or to be more precise 14/07/2015 (http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?alpha=Windows+Server+2003+R2) a number of you may still be running editions of this operating system. An easy way to discover this using PowerCLI is to use the Get-VM cmdlet and filter the results where the ‘Guest.OSFullName’ property is … More Retrieve collection of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 VMs using PowerCLI
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