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Further virtual machine operations can be performed with vSphere PowerCLI. To see the cmdlets that can be
used with virtual machines, type
Get-ViCommand *VM
To find more information on one of these cmdlets, type
Get-Help Move-VM -Full
Figure 100.
To list all hosts attached to the current connection, type
Get-VMHost
Figure 101.
To list all virtual machines attached to a certain host, type
Get-VMHost tm-pod01-esx02* | Get-VM
The preceding example will take the result of the
Get-VMHost
cmdlet and push it through as an input for the
Get-VM
cmdlet, producing a list of virtual machines on that specific host.
