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Thursday, December 15, 2011
PowerCLI command to enumerate VM’s mac address inside of vCenter
ForEach ($VirtualMachine in $VM) {
# Get the virtual machine
$VMsView = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,Guest.Net -Filter @{"Name"="$VirtualMachine$"}
if ($VMsView) {
$VMsView | `
ForEach-Object {
$VMview = $_
$VMView.Guest.Net | `
Select-Object -property @{N="VM";E={$VMView.Name}},
MacAddress,
IpAddress,
Connected
}
}
}
Trying to find a machine on a HP VirtConnect blade by Mac address
->show interconnect enc0:*
Displays interconnect modules in all bays of a specific enclosure
->show interconnect-mac-table enc0:1
Displays the module MAC table for the module in bay 1 of enclosure enc0
The resulting output seems to be far too much info, with no way to sort through it. I just had putty output to a .txt file and then searched it for the mac address in question.
d15 00:50:56:3B:0D:2B Learned 4 -- --
d5 00:0C:29:73:6C:11 Learned 5 -- --
(lag) 00:50:56:3B:07:91 Learned 4 26
d7 00:50:56:8D:00:00 Learned 4 -- --
The ‘d’ number on the left tells you which blade the VM lives on.