Here is a quick one-liner that will list your VM names and their Environment Tag.
– The assumption here is you use vCenter Tags, you created a tag category for Environment, created some tag types (like Production, Dev, etc) under that category, and assigned those Tags to your VMs.

$Thecategory = “Environment”
$thecluster = “TheCoolKidsCluster”
get-cluster $thecluster | Get-VM | Select Name,@{N=”Tag”;E={((Get-TagAssignment -category $Thecategory -Entity $_ | select -ExpandProperty Tag).Name -join “,”)}}

#The output can be sent to csv with  “|export-csv c:\temp\export.csv”
#The output looks like this:
VM1 Production
VM2 Development
VM3 Production…..
… etc

# Remember – you can change the get-cluster part to get-folder, get-datastore, get-datastorecluster, even a get-VDPortgroup!

 

 

Quick One-liner to look for any VM in your entire vcenter that has the VMware tools installer mounted.

get-view -viewtype virtualmachine -property ‘name’ -Filter @{‘Runtime.ToolsInstallerMounted’=’True’}

 

#Here is the same command but with the additional text to unmount the installer if any are found.

get-view -viewtype virtualmachine -property ‘name’ -Filter @{‘Runtime.ToolsInstallerMounted’=’True’} | foreach{$_.UnmountToolsInstaller()}

 

 

 

This is a quick script that will check your entire vcenter for VMs with the VMware tools ISO mounted and then attempt to unmounts that installer.
** Some Linux VMs will not successfully unmounts the tools installer so using the “eject” command inside the OS is needed.

#####Quick one-liner script
Import-Module -Name VMware.VimAutomation.Core
Connect-VIServer “my.vcenter.me -User “administrator@vsphere.local” -password “password”
get-view -viewtype virtualmachine -property ‘name’ -Filter @{‘Runtime.ToolsInstallerMounted’=’True’} | foreach{$_.UnmountToolsInstaller()}
Disconnect-VIServer -confirm:$false

 

#####Long method: This script will log into your vcenter, use a View command to instantly check all your VMs for the mounted installer and then uninstall it. If any VMs are found it will add the name to a “report” array. I left this $report array open ended so  you can add more fields like OS or cluster ID etc for additional references.   I ran this script on a vcenter with 6,000 VMs and it completed in under a second.  It took an additional three seconds to run the unmount command on five detected VMs.

$vcenter = “my.vcenter.me
$vcu = “administrator@vsphere.local”
$vcp = “password”

Connect-VIServer  $vcenter -User $vcu -password $vcp

$vmlist = get-view -viewtype virtualmachine -property ‘name’ -Filter @{‘Runtime.ToolsInstallerMounted’=’True’}
$report = @()
foreach ($vm in $vmlist) {
#unmount command
$vm.UnmountToolsInstaller()

#add to report with vcenter
$row = “” | select name,vcenter
$row.name = $vm.name
$row.vcenter = $vcenter
$report += $row
}

Disconnect-VIServer -confirm:$false

First: Thank you Mick Short for the idea.  When we think about adding vCPUs to a VM, we instantly think of the default, “adding sockets” and leaving core set to one.  This is “best practice” if you ask VMware and it allows DRS to make automatic decisions for CPU scheduling.

Unfortunately, software companies like to create weird licenses based on socket vs core of a server. Thus, comes the requirement of assigning more cores to our VM instead of sockets.

Here is a quick method to use to make this happen:  (VM has two sockets, three cores for six total vCPUs.)
$VMname= get-vm “VM1”
$TotalvCPU=6
$Cores=3

$spec=New-Object –Type VMware.Vim.VirtualMAchineConfigSpec –Property @{“NumCoresPerSocket” = $cores}
($VMname).ExtensionData.ReconfigVM_Task($spec)
$VMname | set-vm -numcpu $TotalvCPU

 

Next step is getting Set-VM updated to support Socket and Core values.

Quick Report script to find those VMs that span more than one Numa Boundary.
Meaning:  If your ESX host has two – quad core CPUs and your VM is configured for six vCPUs,  then your VMs is spanning two NUMA boundaries.
Also, if your VM is configured with 32GB of memory but you only have 24GB of ram Per CPU Socket, your VM will cross memory NUMA boundaries!

Add-PSSnapin VMware.*
$report=@()

Connect-VIServer myvcenter.pcli.me

$temp = get-view -viewtype virtualmachine -property name,runtime.host,config.hardware
$temphost = get-view -viewtype hostsystem -property name,hardware.cpuinfo,hardware.MemorySize
foreach($a in $temp){
$row = “” | select VMname,VMTotalvCPUs,VMSockets,VMCores,CPUCalcNumaNodes,MemCalcNumaNodes
$row.VMname = $a.name
$row.VMTotalvCPUs = $a.config.hardware.numcpu
$row.VMsockets = ($a.config.hardware.numcpu)/($a.config.hardware.NumCoresPerSocket)
$row.VMcores = $a.config.hardware.NumCoresPerSocket
$t = $temphost | where {$_.moref -eq $a.runtime.host}
$nodesCalc = try{[system.math]::ceiling($a.config.hardware.numcpu /($t.hardware.cpuinfo.numcpucores / $t.hardware.cpuinfo.NumCpuPackages))}catch{}
$row.CpuCalcNumaNodes = if($nodesCalc -gt $t.hardware.cpuinfo.NumCpuPackages){$t.hardware.cpuinfo.NumCpuPackages}else{$nodesCalc}
$nodesCalc = if(((($t.hardware.memorysize)/1048576)/$t.hardware.cpuinfo.NumCpuPackages) -lt ($a.config.hardware.MemoryMB)){$nodescalc + 1}else{$nodescalc}
$row.MemCalcNumaNodes = if($nodesCalc -gt $t.hardware.cpuinfo.NumCpuPackages){$t.hardware.cpuinfo.NumCpuPackages}else{$nodesCalc}
$report += $row
}

### format the below output as needed.  It currently reports any VMs that span across more than one NUMA boundary.
$report | where {($_.CPUCalcNumaNodes -ge 2) -or ($_.MemCalcNumaNodes -ge 2)} | ft

 

 

 

Some Quick One-Liners to help with Day to Day changes.  Copy and Adapt as needed.

Quick Notes***
Ram and HardDisk Capacity numbers are in GB.   The bottom code to increase a VMs existing HardDisk has a WMI call to get the Drive letters (For Windows VMs).  This will help match Hard Disk to Drive letter before you issue the last command to expand it.

####### Edit your VM name here #######
$theVM = get-vm “MySuperCoolVM”

######Increase vCPU#######
$thevm | set-vm -numcpu “3” -confirm:$false

#######Increase RAM#######
$thevm | set-vm -memoryGB “8” -confirm:$false

#######Rename to old_X and move to old folder
$thevm | set-vm -name (“old_”+($thevm.name)) -confirm:$false
$thevm | move-vm -destination (get-folder “old”)

#######add new Drive to VM#######
$thevm |new-harddisk -capacityGB “50”

#######increase drive on VM#######
$thevm | get-harddisk | select name,capacityGB,filename

$report = @()
$temp = get-WmiObject win32_logicaldisk -Computername ($thevm.name)
foreach($b in ($temp | where {$_.drivetype -eq “3”})){
$reportrow = “” | select VMname, DriveLetter, VolumeName,CapacityGB, FreespaceGB,percentFree
$reportrow.vmname = $thevm.name
$reportrow.driveletter = $b.DeviceID
$reportrow.VolumeName = $b.VolumeName
$reportrow.capacityGB = “{0:N3}” -f ($b.Size / 1073741824)
$reportrow.freespaceGB = “{0:N3}” -f ($b.FreeSpace / 1073741824)
$reportrow.percentfree = [System.Math]::floor(($b.FreeSpace / $b.Size)*100)
$report += $reportrow
}

$report | ft

$thevm | get-harddisk | where {$_.name -eq “Hard disk 3”} | set-harddisk -capacityGB “50” -confirm:$false

 

This One Line of code will list the count of VMs on each datastore in the Datastore Cluster
Just edit the datastore cluster name below:

foreach($a in (get-datastorecluster MyDataStoreCluster | get-datastore)){write-host $a ($a | get-vm).count}

List will look like this:

Datastore-1 12
Datastore-2 10
Datastore-3 9
Datastore-4 1
Datastore-5 42

This code will fully migrate a powered on VM to another cluster (On the same vcenter)
This will migrate the VMs storage and the memory state with one command.

### Set your vars
$vmname = “MyVM”
$going2Host = “MyHost.pcli.me”
$datastorename = “Datastore-1”

###
Get-VM $vmname | Move-VM -Destination $going2Host -Datastore (get-datastore “$datastorename”) -confirm:$false -RunAsync:$true

 

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You can use this code if you want to select the datastore cluster instead of a single LUN.
This may error out if you have SDRS enabled on the VM.
Check this code to disable it before running the migration line below or just disable it via the GUI : http://www.pcli.me/?p=159

$vmname = “MyVM”
$going2Host = “MyHost.pcli.me”
$datastoreclustername = “MyDataStoreCluster”

Get-VM $vmname | Move-VM -Destination $going2Host -Datastore (get-datastorecluster “$datastoreclustername”) -confirm:$false -RunAsync:$true

VMware Links:
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/PowerCLI41U1/html/Move-VM.html