Some useful PowerCLI scripts

In this blog post i will try to list out some useful PowerCLI scripts.

Allow VMware PowerCLI to run (first time you run PowerCLI on your laptop after install):

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

Power on all VMs on a host that are powered off:

Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOff"} | foreach { Start-VM -VM $_ }

Create a VM:

New-VM -Name "VM_name" -Datastore "datastore_name" -NumCPU 1 -MemoryGB 1 -CD -DiskGB 10 -NetworkName "VM Network" -DiskStorageFormat Thin

Start all powered off VMs:

get-vm | where PowerState -eq "PoweredOff" | Start-VM

Stop all powered on VMs:

get-vm | where PowerState -eq "PoweredOn" | Stop-VM

Get all DataStores with freespace greater than 20GB:

get-datastore | Where-Object -Property FreeSpaceGB -gt '20'

Get all DataStores with freespace less than 20GB:

get-datastore | Where-Object -Property FreeSpaceGB -lt '20'

Enjoy 😀