A few days back I saw a twitter post from @maishsk which linked to this article:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/technodrone.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/how-to-speed-up-your-powercli-queries.html<\/a><\/p>\n The article got me thinking about the difference between Get-VM and Get-View and I wanted to apply it to a script I’ve been using for a little while. \u00a0This is a pretty simple script that finds my virtual machines that have incorrect names — the host name inside the VM doesn’t match the name of the VM in the vCenter console.<\/p>\n Using the Get-VM cmdlet takes 148.7862461 seconds to find all of my virtual machines (excluding the templates):<\/p>\n Using the Get-View VirtualMachines cmdlet with a filter to exclude templates only takes 11.6853342\u00a0seconds:<\/p>\n While either script does a better job than trying to compare these settings manually, this Get-View method shows a very significant savings! \u00a0Thanks for the suggestion @maishsk!<\/p>\n Just in case you only want the query to show VM’s with incorrect names, here you go:<\/p>\n A few days back I saw a twitter post from @maishsk which linked to this article: http:\/\/technodrone.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/how-to-speed-up-your-powercli-queries.html The article got me thinking about the difference between Get-VM and Get-View and I wanted to apply it to a script I’ve been … Continue reading $getvms = (Measure-Command {get-vm | where { $_.Guest.HostName -ne $NULL -AND $_.Guest.HostName -notmatch $_.Name } | select-object name, {$_.Guest.HostName}}).TotalSeconds<\/code><\/pre>\n$getviewf = (Measure-Command {get-view -viewtype virtualmachine -Filter @{\"Config.Template\"=\"false\"} | where { $_.Guest.HostName -ne $NULL -AND $_.Guest.HostName -notmatch $_.Name } | select-object name, {$_.Guest.HostName}}).TotalSeconds<\/code><\/pre>\nget-view -viewtype virtualmachine -Filter @{\"Config.Template\"=\"false\"} | where { $_.Guest.HostName -ne $NULL -AND $_.Guest.HostName -notmatch $_.Name } | select-object name, {$_.Guest.HostName}<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"