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How to Check Number of Disk and Number of NICs Per VM in a Cluster Using Powershell or Powercli – VirtuallyThatGuy

Posted on March 26, 2021December 19, 2025 by VirtuallyThatGuy

A quick useful vcheck for number of disks allocated to a VM , number of NICs and Guest OS details

 

New-VIProperty​​ -ObjectType​​ VirtualMachine​​ -Name​​ CommittedSpaceMB​​ -Value​​ {​​ $vm​​ =​​ $args[0];​​ $sum​​ =​​ 0;​​ $vm.ExtensionData.Storage.PerDatastoreUsage​​ |​​ foreach​​ {​​ $sum​​ +=​​ $_.Committed} ;​​ $sum​​ =​​ [int]($sum​​ /​​ 1024​​ /​​ 1024);​​ return​​ $sum​​ }

 

Get-VM​​ |​​ select​​ Name,@{N=’vDisk’;E={($_.ExtensionData.Config.Hardware.Device​​ |​​ ?​​ {$_​​ -is​​ [VMware.Vim.VirtualDisk]}).Count}},@{N=’vNIC’;E={($_.ExtensionData.Config.Hardware.Device​​ |​​ ?{$_​​ -is​​ [VMware.Vim.VirtualEthernetCard]}).Count}},​​ Guest,​​ NumCpu,​​ CoresPerSocket,​​ MemoryGB,​​ ResourcePool,​​ CommittedSpaceMB​​ |​​ ft​​ -a​​ 

 

 

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New-VIProperty -ObjectType VirtualMachine -Name CommittedSpaceMB -Value { $vm = $args[0]; $sum = 0; $vm.ExtensionData.Storage.PerDatastoreUsage | foreach { $sum += $_.Committed} ; $sum = [int]($sum / 1024 / 1024); return $sum }

Get-VM | select Name,@{N=’vDisk’;E={($_.ExtensionData.Config.Hardware.Device | ? {$_ -is [VMware.Vim.VirtualDisk]}).Count}},@{N=’vNIC’;E={($_.ExtensionData.Config.Hardware.Device | ?{$_ -is [VMware.Vim.VirtualEthernetCard]}).Count}}, Guest, NumCpu, CoresPerSocket, MemoryGB, ResourcePool, CommittedSpaceMB | ft -a 

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