{"id":3658,"date":"2013-05-10T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/05\/10\/get-a-list-of-virtual-machines-by-using-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-05-10T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T00:01:00","slug":"get-a-list-of-virtual-machines-by-using-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/get-a-list-of-virtual-machines-by-using-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a List of Virtual Machines by Using PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell 3.0 in Windows Server 2012 to obtain a list of virtual machines.<\/span>\nMicrosoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. If you are a seasoned Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog reader, you know that the most frequent guest blogger is Sean Kearney. If you are new to the blog, I welcome you, and I encourage you to catch up with Sean’s previous blogs<\/a>.\nSean is a Windows PowerShell MVP and an Honorary Scripting Guy.<\/a> Sean has been selected to present sessions called Integrating with Microsoft System Center 2012 and Windows PowerShell<\/a> at TechEd NA and TechEd Europe this year. In his free time, Sean has written several blog posts about Hyper-V and some other cool stuff, and for the next few weeks, Sean will be the designated guest blogger on Fridays. Take it away Sean…\nSo you’ve got the new Hyper-V environment, and you need to get a list of those virtual machines. Life is smooth and easy…\nLet’s think about this, you want to “get” a “virtual machine” list. Would anybody like to guess just how easy this one is?\nIn Windows Server 2012 with the built-in Hyper-V, all you need to run is:<\/p>\n

Get-VM\nThis will output a list of virtual machines and their current state to the Windows PowerShell console.\nIf you’d like to filter and show only virtual machines that are currently in the running state, you can apply this command in the console:<\/p>\n

Get-VM | Where { $_.State –eq ‘Running’ }\nWe can use this and save the state of those workstations:<\/p>\n

Get-VM | Where { $_.State –eq ‘Running’ } | Save-VM\nThis provides the same result as if you go into the Hyper-V console, right-click  the names of individual workstations, and click Save<\/strong>.\nIf you have administrative credentials, you can even manage remote workstations running Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V in this manner:<\/p>\n

Get-VM –computername ‘Contoso-HyperV-1’ | Where { $_.State –eq ‘Running’ } | Save-VM\nWith this, you can also use our good friend Export-CSV<\/strong> to produce a file with the list of virtual machines:<\/p>\n

Get-VM –computername ‘Contos-HyperV-1’ | EXPORT-CSV C:PowershellVMlist.csv\nThe best part is that not only are these cmdlets built in, but they operate in the free Hyper-V Server 2012. There’s more of course, but let’s take one piece at a time…  \nFeel the Power within you.\n~Sean
The Energized Tech\nThanks, Sean. Sean will be running a weekly series about Hyper-V and Windows PowerShell for the next several months. Join him next Friday, and join me tomorrow for more Windows PowerShell goodness.\nI invite you to follow me on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>. If you have any questions, send email to me at scripter@microsoft.com<\/a>, or post your questions on the Official Scripting Guys Forum<\/a>. See you tomorrow. Until then, peace.\nEd Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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