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
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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