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One of the earliest scripts I wrote and felt confident enough to publish on my blog at http://ben.neise.co.uk/index.php/2009/03/vm-object-dns-name-mismatches.
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# Get all of the VMs as an object | |
$objVMs = Get-VM | |
# Loop through all of the VMs | |
ForEach ($objVM in $objVMs){ | |
# Get the VM Guest object (which contains the DNS information) | |
$objGuest = Get-VMGuest -VM $objVM | |
# Set a variable to the VM object name | |
$objVMName = $objVM.Name | |
# Set a variable to the DNS name | |
$objVMFQDN = $objGuest.Hostname | |
# Sometimes the FQDN is empty or blank, so we screen those out with an "If not equals" | |
If (($objVMFQDN -ne "") -and ($objVMFQDN -ne $null)){ | |
# The host name is the first part of the FQDN, so we split it, and take the first (0) segment as our host name | |
$objVMHostName = $objVMFQDN.split('.')[0] | |
} | |
Else { | |
$objVMHostName = $null | |
} | |
# Check that the host name is not null, and if the hostname does not match the VM name, echo the results | |
If (($objVMHostName -ne $null) -and ($objVMName -notlike $objVMHostName)){ | |
# Write the results on one line, the VM object name, then the host name in square brackets. The "`" is an escape character | |
Write-Host $objVMName `[$objVMHostName`] | |
} | |
} |
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