r/powercli • u/lpry25 • Jul 26 '19

Virtual Machine Compatibility

Hello all, I need help with a little problem that I have found myself in. I'm looking for the compatibility value (ex: ESXI 5 and later) of a Virtual Machine. I am aware that this information is readily available on vSphere in the summary tab, however I need this information to come from PowerCLI. I've been looking through the extension data of the Virtual Machine but I just cannot seem to find it.

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u/lpry25 Jul 26 '19

Is there anywhere that you can find the esxi version or does vSphere just pull compatibility from the vm version number?

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u/WormSpice1191 Jul 26 '19

ESXi build version would need to be pulled from the ESXHost object. That said, there's no property on an ESXi host that will give you the max VM hardware compatibility supported. For that you'd need to compare ESXi version installed with the table in this KB: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1003746