VM Host Category
Cmdlets are usually implemented around resource operations. The four basic operations are CREATE, READ, UPDATE and DELETE. This set of operations is known as CRUD. Most of the cmdlets support CRUD which are respectively cmdlets that start with the New/Get/Set/Remove cmdlet verbs but they also may have additional operations
Step 1: Retrieve a object by running a Get command
You can READ objects by using
Get-VMHostAttributes
cmdlet. See example below:
# Retrieves the identifying attributes for the host named myhost.
Get-VMHostAttributes myhost "ipv4" "192.168.1.1" "vendor" "VMware"
Step 2 : Run commands from the CRUD group
You can CREATE objects by using
New-VMHostAccount
cmdlet. See example below:
# Creates a user account with a specified user ID and password. The user account is created on the default server.
New-VMHostAccount -ID MyUser1 -Password MyPassword1 -UserAccount
You can UPDATE objects by using
Add-VMHost
cmdlet. See example below:
# Adds a VM host to a specified vCenter Server system and provides a username and password for authentication.
$myServer = Connect-VIServer -Server 10.23.112.235 Add-VMHost -Server $myServer -Name MyVMHost1 -Location MyDatacenter1 -User MyUsername1 -Password MyPassword1
You can REMOVE objects by using
Remove-VMHost
cmdlet. See example below:
# Removes all VM hosts in the specified location from the vCenter Server system without asking for confirmation.
$myServer = Connect-VIServer -Server 10.23.112.235 Get-VMHost -Server $myServer -Location MyDatacenter1 | Remove-VMHost -Confirm:$false
Step 3: Explore More Related Commands:
| Get-VMHostImageProfile | Gets the image profile associated with the specified ESXi host. |
| Get-VMHostMatchingRules | Retrieves the list of rules in the rule set that match a specified host. |
| Add-VMHostNtpServer | This cmdlet adds the specified NTP servers to the NTP server list of the specified hosts. |
| Export-VMHostProfile | This cmdlet exports the specified host profile to a file. |
| Format-VMHostDiskPartition | This cmdlet formats a new VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) on each of the specified host disk partitions. |
| Get-VMHost | This cmdlet retrieves the hosts on a vCenter Server system. |
| Get-VMHostAccount | This cmdlet retrieves the host accounts available on a vCenter Server system. |
| Get-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration | This cmdlet retrieves the advanced configuration of the hosts. |
| Get-VMHostAuthentication | This cmdlet retrieves authentication information for the specified hosts. |
| Get-VMHostAvailableTimeZone | This cmdlet retrieves the time zones available on the specified host. |
| Get-VMHostDiagnosticPartition | This cmdlet retrieves a list of the diagnostic partitions on the specified hosts. |
| Get-VMHostDisk | This cmdlet retrieves information about the specified SCSI LUN disk. |
| Get-VMHostDiskPartition | This cmdlet retrieves the partitions of a host disk (LUN). |
| Get-VMHostFirewallDefaultPolicy | This cmdlet retrieves the firewall default policy of the specified hosts. |
| Get-VMHostFirewallException | This cmdlet retrieves the exceptions from the firewall policy on the specified hosts. |
| Get-VMHostFirmware | This cmdlet retrieves hosts firmware information. |
| Get-VMHostHardware | This cmdlet retrieves ESXi host hardware and firmware information. |
| Get-VMHostHba | This cmdlet retrieves information about the available HBAs (Host Bus Adapter). |
| Get-VMHostModule | This cmdlet retrieves the option strings of the specified host modules. |
| Get-VMHostNetwork | THis cmdlet retrieves the host networks on a vCenter Server system. |
| Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter | This cmdlet retrieves the host network adapters on a vCenter Server system. |
| Get-VMHostNetworkStack | This cmdlet retrieves the host network stacks on a vCenter Server system. |
| Get-VMHostNtpServer | This cmdlet retrieves the NTP servers on the specified hosts. |
| Get-VMHostPatch | This cmdlet retrieves information about the host patches installed on the specified hosts. This cmdlet is deprecated and will not return any results for ESX hosts version 5.0 and later. Use (Get-ESXCli).software.vib.list() as an alternative. |
| Get-VMHostPciDevice | This cmdlet retrieves the PCI devices on the specified hosts. |
| Get-VMHostProfile | This cmdlet retrieves the available host profiles. |
| Get-VMHostProfileImageCacheConfiguration | Retrieves an image cache configuration for the given host profile. |
| Get-VMHostProfileRequiredInput | This cmdlet performs a check whether the available information is sufficient to apply a host profile. |
| Get-VMHostProfileStorageDeviceConfiguration | Retrieves the storage device configuration for the given host profile. |
| Get-VMHostProfileUserConfiguration | This cmdlet retrieves the user password configuration for the given host profile. |
| Get-VMHostProfileVmPortGroupConfiguration | Retrieves the virtual machine port group configuration for the given host profile. |
| Get-VMHostRoute | This cmdlet retrieves the routes from the routing table of the specified hosts. |
| Get-VMHostService | This cmdlet retrieves information about a host service. |
| Get-VMHostSnmp | This cmdlet retrieves hosts SNMP configuration. |
| Get-VMHostStartPolicy | This cmdlet retrieves the start policy of hosts. |
| Get-VMHostStorage | This cmdlet retrieves the host storages on a vCenter Server system. |
| Get-VMHostSysLogServer | This cmdlet displays the remote syslog servers of the specified hosts. |
| Import-VMHostProfile | This cmdlet imports a host profile from a file. The file path must be accessible from the VMware PowerCLI client side. |
| Install-VMHostPatch | This cmdlet updates the specified hosts. |
| Invoke-VMHostProfile | This cmdlet applies a host profile to the specified host or cluster. |
| Move-VMHost | This cmdlet moves hosts to another location. |
| New-VMHostNetworkAdapter | This cmdlet creates a new HostVirtualNIC (Service Console or VMKernel) on the specified host. |
| New-VMHostProfile | This cmdlet creates a new host profile based on a reference host. |
| New-VMHostProfileVmPortGroupConfiguration | This cmdlet creates a new virtual machine port group configuration. |
| New-VMHostRoute | This cmdlet creates a new route in the routing table of a host. |
| Remove-VMHostAccount | This cmdlet removes the specified host accounts. |
| Remove-VMHostNetworkAdapter | This cmdlet removes the specified host network adapters. |
| Remove-VMHostNtpServer | This cmdlet removes the specified NTP servers from the NTP server list of the specified hosts. |
| Remove-VMHostProfile | This cmdlet removes the specified host profiles. |
| Remove-VMHostProfileVmPortGroupConfiguration | Removes the given virtual machine port group configuration from the host profile. |
| Remove-VMHostRoute | This cmdlet removes host routes. |
| Restart-VMHost | This cmdlet restarts the specified hosts. |
| Restart-VMHostService | This cmdlet restarts the specified host services. |
| Set-VMHost | This cmdlet modifies the configuration of the host. |
| Set-VMHostAccount | This cmdlet configures a host account. |
| Set-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration | This cmdlet modifies the advanced configuration settings of a host. |
| Set-VMHostAuthentication | This cmdlet modifies the host authentication information. |
| Set-VMHostDiagnosticPartition | This cmdlet activates or deactivates the diagnostic partitions of hosts. |
| Set-VMHostFirewallDefaultPolicy | This cmdlet sets the default policy for the specified host firewall. |
| Set-VMHostFirewallException | This cmdlet activates or deactivates host firewall exceptions. |
| Set-VMHostFirmware | This cmdlet configures hosts firmware settings. |
| Set-VMHostHba | This cmdlet configures the CHAP properties of the specified iSCSI HBAs. |
| Set-VMHostModule | This cmdlet overrides the host module options with the given ones. |
| Set-VMHostNetwork | This cmdlet updates the specified virtual network. |
| Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter | This cmdlet configures the specified host network adapter. |
| Set-VMHostNetworkStack | This cmdlet modifies the specified host network stack. |
| Set-VMHostProfile | This cmdlet modifies the specified host profile. |
| Set-VMHostProfileImageCacheConfiguration | This cmdlet modifies image cache configuration for given host profile. |
| Set-VMHostProfileStorageDeviceConfiguration | This cmdlet modifies the storage device configuration for the given host profile. |
| Set-VMHostProfileUserConfiguration | This cmdlet modifies the user password configuration for the specified account within a host profile. |
| Set-VMHostProfileVmPortGroupConfiguration | This cmdlet modifies the virtual machine port group configuration for the given host profile. |
| Set-VMHostRoute | This cmdlet modifies a route in the host routing table. |
| Set-VMHostService | This cmdlet modifies a host service. |
| Set-VMHostSnmp | This cmdlet modifies the host SNMP configuration. |
| Set-VMHostStartPolicy | This cmdlet modifies the host default start policy. |
| Set-VMHostStorage | This cmdlet configures a host storage. |
| Set-VMHostSysLogServer | This cmdlet configures the remote syslog server of the specified hosts. |
| Start-VMHost | This cmdlet starts the specified hosts. |
| Start-VMHostService | This cmdlet starts the specified host services. |
| Stop-VMHost | This cmdlet powers off the specified hosts. |
| Stop-VMHostService | This cmdlet stops the specified host services. |
| Suspend-VMHost | This cmdlet suspends hosts. |
| Test-VMHostProfileCompliance | This cmdlet tests hosts for profile compliance. |
| Test-VMHostSnmp | This cmdlet tests the host SNMP. |
| Export-VMHostImageDb | This cmdlet exports the specified host's base image database to a file that is in a .tgz format. |
| Get-VMHostTPM | This cmdlet retrieves the TPM 2.0 devices from the specified host. |