VMware VS4-STD-C - vSphere Standard - PC Evaluation Manual page 72

VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide –
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To retrieve a list of virtual machines attached to the connected vCenter server, type Get-VM. This will return the
Name, PowerState, Num CPUs and Memory (MB). These are all called properties of the virtual machine. vSphere
PowerCLI returns more information than what is shown on the screen. It actually returns an object to this
vSphere PowerCLI session containing more information about the virtual machine.
Figure 94.
To find out more information about the object being returned by vSphere PowerCLI, use the Get-Member
cmdlet to retrieve a list of all properties, and also methods attached to this virtual machine object.
To do this we will take the Get-VM cmdlet and "pipe" it through the Get-Member cmdlet. This will take the
results of the Get-VM cmdlet and push them as an input into the Get-Member cmdlet.
Type Get-VM | Get-Member
As you can see from the preceding screenshot, the virtual machine object contains more properties than were
shown from our initial Get-VM results.
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