VMTools…
When we have a few VMs it is fairly easy to keep track and keep tools updated, but how about when we have thousands of VMs?
Well in this case we call Powercli to the rescue 🙂
Simple query will to the job, you can also format it and export to CSV
The below example assumes you only have one datacenter, if you have more then just do
(Get-Datacenter 'DatacenterName').id
or if you want to restrict it to a cluster then do
(Get-Cluster 'ClusterName').id
you catch my drift, sky is the limit!
get-view -ViewType virtualmachine -SearchRoot (Get-Datacenter).id -Filter @{'Summary.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus'='guestToolsNeedUpgrade'} | Select Name, {$_.Config.Tools.ToolsVersion}, {$_.Summary.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus}To CSV: just add to the end of the initial code
| Export-Csv .\FileName.csv -NoTypeInformation
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