Tag: Inventory

Retrieving VM inventory information using PowerCLI

April 3, 2014

Following on from collecting VM Host inventory information (http://wp.me/p15Mdc-mC), I am now looking into returning inventory information for all the VMs where the following would be retrieved: Name Host vCPUs Memory (MB) CPU Reservation CPU Limit CPU Share Allocation Memory Reservation Memory Limt Memory Share Allocation Operating System Annotations In order to invoke the PowerCLI cmdlets … More Retrieving VM inventory information using PowerCLI

Retrieving ESXi Host inventory information using PowerCLI

March 28, 2014

Over time I have produced a number of powershell scripts using the vSphere PowerCLI snap-in to return information from vCenter Firstly, I looked into returning inventory information for all the ESXi Hosts where the following would be retrieved: Name Hardware Vendor Hardware Model CPU Model Datacenter Cluster Hypervisor Hypervisor Version Clock Speed Memory Hyperthreading Active Number … More Retrieving ESXi Host inventory information using PowerCLI

vSphere Inventory unable to connect to the remote server

July 9, 2012

I recently performed a search using the vSphere Client where I received the following warning message: Quite a simple one to resolve in this instance, I checked the service ‘vCenter Inventory Service’ which was in a stopped state, starting the service resolved this issue and allowed for the return of the inventory search result without … More vSphere Inventory unable to connect to the remote server