Inventory Hyper-V VMs
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List Hyper-V guests with Get-VM and report state, CPU usage, assigned memory in bytes, and status for each virtual machine.
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Get-VM | Select-Object Name,State,CPUUsage,MemoryAssigned,Status- Stage 1Get-VM
Positional values or no named parameters - Stage 2Select-Object
Positional values or no named parameters
How it works
Get-VM returns the guests registered on the local host, and the projection keeps the name with State, the CPUUsage percentage, MemoryAssigned in bytes, and the Status string that surfaces conditions such as a degraded configuration.
Adapting it
Pass -ComputerName with a list of host names to gather several hosts into one table, and divide MemoryAssigned by 1GB so the column can be read without counting digits.
Requirements
Hyper-V PowerShell module and membership in Hyper-V Administrators.
If the result is unexpected
The Hyper-V VM list is empty or belongs to the wrong host.
The session may be querying the local machine or lack the module, role or remote access required.
- Confirm the Hyper-V host parameter and query a known VM under the intended identity.
Validate the result
The output names the queried host and includes the known VM.
Keep the check reliable
Keep host context explicit in multi-host inventory.
