PowerCLI: List all vm’s with ISO mounted and dismount them

Easy-peasy and a pretty short post…

To get all vm’s with iso mounted:

Get-VM | Get-CDDrive | select @{N="VM";E="Parent"},IsoPath | where {$_.IsoPath -ne $null}

Then, to dismount those:

Get-VM | Get-CDDrive | where {$_.IsoPath -ne $null} | Set-CDDrive -NoMedia -Confirm:$False
Category(s): PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
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4 Responses to PowerCLI: List all vm’s with ISO mounted and dismount them

  1. Thanks a lot. Works like a charm!

  2. Here is another option to list all VM’s with a mounted ISO…

    Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | %{

    $name = $_.name

    $_.Config.Hardware.Device | where {$_ -is [vmware.vim.virtualcdrom]} | %{

    if($_.Connectable.Connected -eq $true){

    Write-Progress -Activity “Collecting VMs” -CurrentOperation $name

    $_ | Select-Object @{e={$Name};n=’ComputerName’},@{n=’Label’;e={$_.DeviceInfo.Label}},@{n=’Summary’;e={$_.DeviceInfo.Summary}}

    }

    }

    }

  3. I would recommend to add additional “-Connected $Falase” in Set-CDDrive

  4. Used this in a script I wrote that powered off and exports VMs to the desktop. Needed this snippet to remove all ISO prior to export.

    Worked great. Thank you.

2 Responses in other blogs/articles

  1. […] For almost a year ago, I posted a simple one-liner to list all VMs who has ISOs mounted. You can view that post here: http://cloud.kemta.net/2013/10/powershell-vmware-list-all-vms-with-iso-mounted-and-dismount-them/ […]

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