PowerCLI commands

Connect to a vcenter server

1. Connect your vsphere client
2. Open PowerCLI

3. Connect-VIServer -Server [servername] -Protocol https -User [username] -Password [password]

Retrieve all the IPs of all the VMs

1. Create a new text document
2. rename the document to FindIPs.ps1
3. insert the following text

$vms = Get-VM
foreach($vm in $vms){
  
  $vmIP = $vm.Guest.IPAddress
  foreach($ip in $vmIP){
     $A = $vm.Name + ", " + $IP
     Write-Host $A
     Add-Content .\IP.List.txt $A
  }
}

4. execute the script in PowerCLI