Get a List of Hosts on a vCenter Server System and View Their Properties

With PowerCLI, you can get information about all available hosts in a data center and view their properties.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are connected to a vCenter Server system.

Procedure

Get-Datacenter DC | Get-VMHost | Format-Custom
Get-Datacenter DC | Get-VMHost | Select-Object -First 1 | Format-Custom
Get-Datacenter DC | Get-VMHost | Get-View | Format-Table -Property Name, OverallStatus -AutoSize
Get-Datacenter DC | Get-VMHost | Format-Custom | Out-File –FilePath hosts.txt
Get-VMHost -State maintenance | Get-View | Where-Object -FilterScript { $_.capability -ne $null -and $_.capability.vmotionSupported }

1	Get a list of all hosts that are part of a data center. Get-Datacenter DC \| Get-VMHost \| Format-Custom
2	View the properties of the first host in the data center. Get-Datacenter DC \| Get-VMHost \| Select-Object -First 1 \| Format-Custom
3	View the Name and the OverallStatus properties of the hosts in the `DC` data center. Get-Datacenter DC \| Get-VMHost \| Get-View \| Format-Table -Property Name, OverallStatus -AutoSize
4	View all hosts and their properties, and save the results to a file. Get-Datacenter DC \| Get-VMHost \| Format-Custom \| Out-File –FilePath hosts.txt
5	View a list of the hosts that are in maintenance mode and can be configured for vMotion operations. Get-VMHost -State maintenance \| Get-View \| Where-Object -FilterScript { $_.capability -ne $null -and $_.capability.vmotionSupported }