ESXi: listing virtual machines with their IP addresses
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/26
This is sort of a follow-up on VMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 4 which already gave part of the configuration details of all the configured VMs.
Back then, we ended with this:
List the
vmidvalues, power status and name of all VMsBack to the listing script
vim-cmd-list-all-VMs.sh:#!/bin/sh # https://wiert.me/2021/04/29/vmware-esxi-console-viewing-all-vms-suspending-and-waking-them-up-part-4/ vmids=`vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | sed -n -E -e "s/^([[:digit:]]+)\s+((\S.+\S)?)\s+(\[\S+\])\s+(.+\.vmx)\s+(\S+)\s+(vmx-[[:digit:]]+)\s*?((\S.+)?)$/\1/p"` for vmid in ${vmids} ; do powerState=`vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate ${vmid} | sed '1d'` name=`vim-cmd vmsvc/get.config ${vmid} | sed -n -E -e '/\(vim.vm.ConfigInfo\) \{/,/files = \(vim.vm.FileInfo\) \{/ s/^ +name = "(.*)",.*?/\1/p'` vmPathName=`vim-cmd vmsvc/get.config ${vmid} | sed -n -E -e '/files = \(vim.vm.FileInfo\) \{/,/tools = \(vim.vm.ToolsConfigInfo\) \{/ s/^ +vmPathName = "(.*)",.*?/\1/p'` echo "VM with id ${vmid} has power state ${powerState} (name = ${name}; vmPathName = ${vmPathName})." done
It uses vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms, vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate and vim-cmd vmsvc/get.config with some sed and a for loop from dash to generate a nice list of information.
A long time ago, I already figured out that vim-cmd vmsvc/get.guest # gives all guest information including network information for a running VM that has either VMware Tools or open-vm-tools running (see VMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 3 for the difference between these two tools).
A full output of a sample VM is below the signature.
There are a few places that have the LAN ipAddress. For now, I choose to use only the IPv4 main address from ipAddress, which is in between (vim.vm.GuestInfo) { and net = (vim.vm.GuestInfo.NicInfo) [.
I modified the above script to become this:
#!/bin/sh vmids=`vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | sed -n -E -e "s/^([[:digit:]]+)\s+((\S.+\S)?)\s+(\[\S+\])\s+(.+\.vmx)\s+(\S+)\s+(vmx-[[:digit:]]+)\s*?((\S.+)?)$/\1/p"` for vmid in ${vmids} ; do # powerState values: # Powered off # Powered on # Suspended powerState=`vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate ${vmid} | sed '1d'` name=`vim-cmd vmsvc/get.config ${vmid} | sed -n -E -e '/\(vim.vm.ConfigInfo\) \{/,/files = \(vim.vm.FileInfo\) \{/ s/^ +name = "(.*)",.*?/\1/p'` vmPathName=`vim-cmd vmsvc/get.config ${vmid} | sed -n -E -e '/files = \(vim.vm.FileInfo\) \{/,/tools = \(vim.vm.ToolsConfigInfo\) \{/ s/^ +vmPathName = "(.*)",.*?/\1/p'` # For now, I choose to use only the IPv4 main address from ipAddress, which is in between (vim.vm.GuestInfo) { and net = (vim.vm.GuestInfo.NicInfo) [. ipAddress=`vim-cmd vmsvc/get.guest ${vmid} | sed -n -E -e '/\(vim.vm.GuestInfo\) \{/,/net = \(vim.vm.GuestInfo.NicInfo\) \[/ s/^ +ipAddress = "(.*)",.*?/\1/p'` printf "VM with id %3s has power state %-11s and IPv4=%-15s (name = ${name}; vmPathName = ${vmPathName}).\n" "${vmid}" "${powerState}" "${ipAddress}" done
I went replaced echo with printf output because that allows for both left (%-#s) and right (%#s) alignment of strings. I had to put double quotes around the paramaters in case they contain spaces (and would count as multiple parameters, messing up the printf output).
It seems the dash implementation of printf supports most of not all of the bash features.
Note that printf needs a newline (\n) at the end of the string, otherwise it continues on the same line.
See these posts for more on the printf alignment:
- [Archive.is] Printing Fixed Width Columns
- printf (Unix) – Wikipedia
- [Wayback] variables – How do I print some text in bash and pad it with spaces to a certain width? – Stack Overflow explaining
%-#sleft alignment with the-dash. - [Wayback] bash – Padding characters in printf – Stack Overflow with a long answer describing padding and alignment with dashes instead of spaces. Interesting read!
- [Wayback] bash – Formatting output with printf: truncating or padding – Stack Overflow showing how to truncate instead of pad (don’t forget an ellipsis
...indicator that strings have been truncated!).
For a single Vmid, you can do this ugly output in a simple way using grep, as the BusyBox grep allows the -m # parameter allows to limit the output to # matches:
# vim-cmd vmsvc/get.guest 6 | grep -m 1 -i 'ipaddress = "' ipAddress = "192.168.124.48",
grep [-HhrilLnqvsoweFEABCz] PATTERN [FILE]...Search for
PATTERNin eachFILEor standard inputOptions:
-H Prefix output lines with filename where match was found -h Suppress the prefixing filename on output -r Recurse -i Ignore case distinctions -l List names of files that match -L List names of files that do not match -n Print line number with output lines -q Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise -v Select non-matching lines -s Suppress file open/read error messages -c Only print count of matching lines -o Show only the part of a line that matches PATTERN -m MAX Match up to MAX times per file -w Match whole words only -F PATTERN is a set of newline-separated strings -E PATTERN is an extended regular expression -e PTRN Pattern to match -f FILE Read pattern from file -A Print NUM lines of trailing context -B Print NUM lines of leading context -C Print NUM lines of output context -z Input is NUL terminated
–jeroen
All guest information for one VM that supports both IPv4 and IPv6
# vim-cmd vmsvc/get.guest 6 Guest information: (vim.vm.GuestInfo) { toolsStatus = "toolsOk", toolsVersionStatus = "guestToolsUnmanaged", toolsVersionStatus2 = "guestToolsUnmanaged", toolsRunningStatus = "guestToolsRunning", toolsVersion = "11264", toolsInstallType = "guestToolsTypeOpenVMTools", toolsUpdateStatus = (vim.vm.GuestInfo.ToolsUpdateStatus) null, guestId = "opensuse64Guest", guestFamily = "linuxGuest", guestFullName = "SUSE openSUSE (64-bit)", hostName = "lampje", ipAddress = "192.168.124.48", net = (vim.vm.GuestInfo.NicInfo) [ (vim.vm.GuestInfo.NicInfo) { network = "VM Network", ipAddress = (string) [ "192.168.124.48", "2001:985:5a49:1:61bf:89b0:472b:2992", "2001:985:5a49:1:41c4:26e8:406:4095", "2001:985:5a49:1:451f:6ea5:7a2f:4e65", "2001:985:5a49:1:39b3:78f5:d16b:3b3f", "2001:985:5a49:1:cdb7:9d8c:c765:7916", "2001:985:5a49:1:d82:53e8:8341:4d10", "2001:985:5a49:1:e1b1:3646:1219:ad33", "2001:985:5a49:1:20c:29ff:fe79:a2b0", "fe80::20c:29ff:fe79:a2b0" ], macAddress = "00:0c:29:79:a2:b0", connected = true, deviceConfigId = 4000, dnsConfig = (vim.net.DnsConfigInfo) null, ipConfig = (vim.net.IpConfigInfo) { ipAddress = (vim.net.IpConfigInfo.IpAddress) [ (vim.net.IpConfigInfo.IpAddress) { ipAddress = "192.168.124.48", prefixLength = 24, origin = , state = "preferred", lifetime = }, (vim.net.IpConfigInfo.IpAddress) { ipAddress = "2001:985:5a49:1:61bf:89b0:472b:2992", prefixLength = 64, origin = , state = "unknown", lifetime = }, (vim.net.IpConfigInfo.IpAddress) { ipAddress = "2001:985:5a49:1:41c4:26e8:406:4095", prefixLength = 64, origin = , state = "unknown", lifetime = }, (vim.net.IpConfigInfo.IpAddress) { ipAddress = "2001:985:5a49:1:451f:6ea5:7a2f:4e65", prefixLength = 64, origin = , state = "unknown", lifetime = }, (vim.net.IpConfigInfo.IpAddress) { ipAddress = "2001:985:5a49:1:39b3:78f5:d16b:3b3f", prefixLength = 64, origin = , state = "unknown", lifetime = }, (vim.net.IpConfigInfo.IpAddress) { ipAddress = "2001:985:5a49:1:cdb7:9d8c:c765:7916", prefixLength = 64, origin = , state = "unknown", lifetime = }, (vim.net.IpConfigInfo.IpAddress) { ipAddress = "2001:985:5a49:1:d82:53e8:8341:4d10", prefixLength = 64, origin = , state = "unknown", lifetime = }, (vim.net.IpConfigInfo.IpAddress) { ipAddress = "2001:985:5a49:1:e1b1:3646:1219:ad33", prefixLength = 64, origin = , state = "unknown", lifetime = }, (vim.net.IpConfigInfo.IpAddress) { ipAddress = "2001:985:5a49:1:20c:29ff:fe79:a2b0", prefixLength = 64, origin = , state = "unknown", lifetime = }, (vim.net.IpConfigInfo.IpAddress) { ipAddress = "fe80::20c:29ff:fe79:a2b0", prefixLength = 64, origin = , state = "unknown", lifetime = } ], dhcp = (vim.net.DhcpConfigInfo) null, autoConfigurationEnabled = }, netBIOSConfig = (vim.net.NetBIOSConfigInfo) null } ], ipStack = (vim.vm.GuestInfo.StackInfo) [ (vim.vm.GuestInfo.StackInfo) { dnsConfig = (vim.net.DnsConfigInfo) { dhcp = false, hostName = "lampje", domainName = "fritz.box", ipAddress = (string) [ "192.168.124.1", "fd00::3a10:d5ff:fe17:56f6" ], searchDomain = (string) [ "fritz.box" ] }, ipRouteConfig = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo) { ipRoute = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) [ (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "0.0.0.0", prefixLength = 0, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = "192.168.124.1", device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "192.168.124.0", prefixLength = 24, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = , device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "2001:985:5a49:1::", prefixLength = 64, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = , device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "fe80::", prefixLength = 64, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = , device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "::", prefixLength = 0, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = "fe80::3a10:d5ff:fe17:56f6", device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "2001:985:5a49:1:20c:29ff:fe79:a2b0", prefixLength = 128, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = , device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "2001:985:5a49:1:d82:53e8:8341:4d10", prefixLength = 128, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = , device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "2001:985:5a49:1:39b3:78f5:d16b:3b3f", prefixLength = 128, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = , device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "2001:985:5a49:1:41c4:26e8:406:4095", prefixLength = 128, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = , device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "2001:985:5a49:1:451f:6ea5:7a2f:4e65", prefixLength = 128, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = , device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "2001:985:5a49:1:61bf:89b0:472b:2992", prefixLength = 128, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = , device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "2001:985:5a49:1:cdb7:9d8c:c765:7916", prefixLength = 128, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = , device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "2001:985:5a49:1:e1b1:3646:1219:ad33", prefixLength = 128, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = , device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "fe80::20c:29ff:fe79:a2b0", prefixLength = 128, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = , device = "0" } }, (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.IpRoute) { network = "ff00::", prefixLength = 8, gateway = (vim.net.IpRouteConfigInfo.Gateway) { ipAddress = , device = "0" } } ] }, ipStackConfig = , dhcpConfig = (vim.net.DhcpConfigInfo) null } ], disk = (vim.vm.GuestInfo.DiskInfo) [ (vim.vm.GuestInfo.DiskInfo) { diskPath = "/", capacity = 32201768960, freeSpace = 27806666752 }, (vim.vm.GuestInfo.DiskInfo) { diskPath = "/boot/grub2/x86_64-efi", capacity = 32201768960, freeSpace = 27806666752 }, (vim.vm.GuestInfo.DiskInfo) { diskPath = "/.snapshots", capacity = 32201768960, freeSpace = 27806666752 }, (vim.vm.GuestInfo.DiskInfo) { diskPath = "/boot/grub2/i386-pc", capacity = 32201768960, freeSpace = 27806666752 }, (vim.vm.GuestInfo.DiskInfo) { diskPath = "/srv", capacity = 32201768960, freeSpace = 27806666752 }, (vim.vm.GuestInfo.DiskInfo) { diskPath = "/home", capacity = 32201768960, freeSpace = 27806666752 }, (vim.vm.GuestInfo.DiskInfo) { diskPath = "/root", capacity = 32201768960, freeSpace = 27806666752 }, (vim.vm.GuestInfo.DiskInfo) { diskPath = "/opt", capacity = 32201768960, freeSpace = 27806666752 }, (vim.vm.GuestInfo.DiskInfo) { diskPath = "/usr/local", capacity = 32201768960, freeSpace = 27806666752 }, (vim.vm.GuestInfo.DiskInfo) { diskPath = "/tmp", capacity = 32201768960, freeSpace = 27806666752 }, (vim.vm.GuestInfo.DiskInfo) { diskPath = "/var", capacity = 32201768960, freeSpace = 27806666752 } ], screen = (vim.vm.GuestInfo.ScreenInfo) { width = 800, height = 600 }, guestState = "running", powerPolicy = (vim.vm.PowerPolicy) null, appHeartbeatStatus = "appStatusGray", guestKernelCrashed = false, appState = "none", guestOperationsReady = true, interactiveGuestOperationsReady = false, guestStateChangeSupported = true, generationInfo = , customizationInfo = (vim.vm.GuestInfo.CustomizationInfo) null }
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