Finding a VM across Hyper-V using PS -AsJob

One thing fantastic about PowerShell is jobs.  They provide a multi-threaded approach to running multiple tasks simultaneously.  Finding a VM across multiple clusters can be difficult if not using additional tooling like MSCVMM.  This provides a quick solution.

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$vmFilter = "regex" $showDisk = $false Get-Cluster -Name hvc* -Domain <yourdomain> | Where-Object Name -match "(weash|wephx)" | ForEach-Object { $cluster = $_.Name if (Test-Connection -ComputerName $cluster -Count 1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue){ Get-ClusterNode -Cluster $_.Name -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Get-Random | ForEach-Object { Invoke-Command -ComputerName $_.Name -ScriptBlock { Param($vmFilter,$vmCluster) Get-ClusterResource | Where ResourceType -eq 'Virtual Machine' | Where-Object OwnerGroup -match $vmFilter | % { $vm = $_ | Get-VM $vmDisks = Get-VHD -ComputerName $vm.ComputerName -VMId $vm.VMId $vmMem = $vm | Get-VMMemory $vmIP = $vm | Get-VMNetworkAdapter | Select-Object -ExpandProperty IPAddresses | Select-Object -First 1 $vmVLAN = $vm | Get-VMNetworkAdapterVlan | Select-Object -ExpandProperty AccessVlanId $vmPRD = $vm | Select -ExpandProperty Notes | ConvertFrom-Json | Select -ExpandProperty ProductCode $vmStop = $vm.AutomaticStopAction [PSCustomObject]@{ Cluster = $vmCluster State = $vm.State PRDCode = $vmPRD IP = $vmIP VLAN = $vmVLAN VM = $vm Memory = $vmMem Disks = $vmDisks StopAct = $vmStop } } } -AsJob -ArgumentList $vmFilter,$cluster } } };Get-Job | Wait-Job; $results = Get-Job | Receive-Job; Get-Job | Remove-Job $results | ForEach-Object{ $diskCount = 0 $mem = $_.Memory $disks = $_.Disks $info = [PSCustomObject] @{ Name = $_.VM.Name IP = $_.IP PRD = $_.PRDCode VLAN = $_.VLAN Cluster = $_.Cluster State = $_.State CPUCount = $_.VM.ProcessorCount MemoryDyn = $mem.DynamicMemoryEnabled MemoryStart = ($mem.Startup/1GB) MemoryMin = ($mem.Minimum/1GB) MemoryMax = ($mem.Maximum/1GB) MemoryBuff = $mem.Buffer StopAct = $_.StopAct } if ($showDisk){ $disks | ForEach-Object { Add-Member -InputObject $info -NotePropertyName ("DiskName_{0}" -f $diskCount) -NotePropertyValue ((Split-Path $_.Path -Leaf) -split '-')[5] Add-Member -InputObject $info -NotePropertyName ("DiskSize_{0} (Gb)" -f $diskCount) -NotePropertyValue ($_.Size/1GB) Add-Member -InputObject $info -NotePropertyName ("DiskFile_{0}" -f $diskCount) -NotePropertyValue ([Math]::Round($_.FileSize/1GB)) Add-Member -InputObject $info -NotePropertyName ("DiskType_{0}" -f $diskCount) -NotePropertyValue $_.VhdType $diskCount ++ } } $info } | Sort-Object Name | FT -Property *