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list MAC addresses of guest VMs

September 9th, 2009 Comments off

I noticed an IP conflict today on a windows box hosted on the ESXi. In the events viewer under system I checked the MAC address of the system trying to hijack my IP address. I wanted to find a quick way and check if this mac address is in my existing ESXi Virtual Machines or it’s outside somewhere..
I wanted to find a quick and dirty way to check this since there is number of machines on the ESXi host.
Here is what I did…

I opened VMWare VI-TOOLKIT. After I connected I decided to try some commands that I regularly use such as get-vm and get-vmguest. After I found nothing interesting I checked out the CI Toolkit Cmdlets Reference Document.

And there it was… the perfect command for what I wanted..

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List IP Addresses used in WMWare ESX

April 22nd, 2009 Comments off

How to extract the IP addresses in use by the Guests in our VMware ESX host?
This was the question that I asked myself yesterday, when I had to go over a long list of IPs and check if any of the listed IPs was in use by any Guest Operating system on our ESX server. I immediately thought of the VMware VI Toolkit and all the nice commands that I have seen there, but none of those came to me immediately. A colleague was swifter and used python to get any matches after he copied all IPs manually using the Infrastructure Client, but since I had few spare minutes today, I decided to solve this one and post the answer. Here it is:

[VI Toolkit] C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VIToolkitForWindows> get-vmg
uest -vm (get-vm *) |select IPAddress

IPAddress
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{192.168.128.110}
{192.168.128.113}
{}
{192.168.128.127}
{}
{}
{192.168.128.125}
{}
{}
{192.168.128.175}
{}
{}
{}
{}
{192.168.128.186}
{192.168.128.153, 192.168.128.163, 10.10.128.153}
{}
{192.168.128.154, 192.168.128.164, 10.10.128.154}
{192.168.128.102}
{192.168.128.196}
{192.168.128.236}
{192.168.128.213}
{192.168.128.103}
{192.168.128.254}

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