I did not work with PowerCli for the last couple of months and I had an interesting question from one of my follower Ivo from Netherlands.He was trying to retrieve the VIB information with the name 'net-e1000e' from all his VMware Hosts using the PowerShell and the Snapin PowerCli from VMware.
What is a VIB ?
VIB stands for vSphere Installation Bundle. At a conceptual level a VIB is somewhat similar to a tarball or ZIP archive in that it is a collection of files packaged into a single archive to facilitate distribution
VIB stands for vSphere Installation Bundle. At a conceptual level a VIB is somewhat similar to a tarball or ZIP archive in that it is a collection of files packaged into a single archive to facilitate distribution
Here is the piece of code to retrieve this information.
The output is sent to Out-GridView which create a simple GUI.
Get-VMHost | Where-Object { $_.ConnectionState -eq “Connected” } | Foreach-Object { $CurrentVMhost = $_ TRY { # Exposes the ESX CLI functionality of the current host $ESXCLI = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $CurrentVMhost.name # Retrieve Vib with name 'net-e1000e' $ESXCLI.software.vib.list() | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq "net-e1000e" } | FOREACH { $VIB = $_ $Prop = [ordered]@{ 'VMhost' = $CurrentVMhost.Name 'ID' = $VIB.ID 'Name' = $VIB.Name 'Vendor' = $VIB.Vendor 'Version' = $VIB.Version 'Status' = $VIB.Status 'ReleaseDate' = $VIB.ReleaseDate 'InstallDate' = $VIB.InstallDate 'AcceptanceLevel' = $VIB.AcceptanceLevel }#$Prop # Output Current Object New-Object PSobject -Property $Prop }#FOREACH }#TRY CATCH { Write-Warning -Message "Something wrong happened with $($CurrentVMhost.name)" Write-Warning -Message $Error[0].Exception.Message } } | Out-GridView
Script Version
I also wrote a more complete version available on Github
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