You can scan a virtual machine against the baselines attached to it or inherited by its parent object.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are connected to a vCenter Server system.

Procedure
1

Initialize scanning on a virtual machine that is named VM against baselines containing virtual machine hardware upgrades and VMware Tools upgrades. 

$task = Test-Compliance -Entity VM -UpdateType VmHardwareUpgrade, VmToolsUpgrade -RunAsync

The command initializes a task on the server, returns a snapshot object of the initial state of the task, and saves it in the $task variable.

2

View the initial status of the scanning task. 

$task
Note

The task object is not updated with the actual state of the task process running on the server. Even after the task is completed, the $task variable value is running. To view the actual status of the tasks running on the server, use the Get-Task cmdlet.

3

(Optional) Run the Wait-Task cmdlet to monitor the process progress and wait for the task to complete before running other commands. 

Wait-Task -Task $task