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I tried to find ip addresses assigned to vms in an esxi server? either from terminal or vSphere Client.

Amir.A.G
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If you have installed VMware Tools in the VMs, then you can use the following one-liner to get the IP Address from command line:

for i in `vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep -v Vmid | awk '{print $1}'`; do vim-cmd vmsvc/get.guest $i | grep -i 'ipaddress = "'; done

For non-shell, you have tons of powercli snippets, but you still need VMware tools.

zXi
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  • Here's a cleaner version of the above that doesn't pull in extraneous IPs like default routers, DNS, etc.: ```vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep "^[[:digit:]]" | awk '{print $1":"$2}' | while read vm; do num=${vm%:*}; name=${vm#*:}; printf "%3d %s " $num $name; printf "`vim-cmd vmsvc/get.guest $num | awk 'BEGIN{l=""}{if(l && $0~/ipAddress =/ && match($0,/[0-9.]{7,15}/)){print substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH)}if($0~/IpConfigInfo.IpAddress/){l=$0}else{l=""}}' | sort -un | xargs`"; printf "\n"; done``` – Scott Mar 14 '23 at 06:06
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Check the last box on the following link for a couple options: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2012964

Depending on which version of ESXi you're using, you should be able to right click within the GUI and add a column for IP address.

Note: in order for the IP addresses of guests to be presented up through the ESXi host, VMware Tools will need to be installed and running.

Kyle Ruddy
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v = Get-View -Viewtype VirtualMachine -Property name, guest.ipaddress
$report = @()
foreach($vm in $v)
{
        $list = '' | select name, ipaddress
        $list.name = $vm.name
        $list.ipaddress = $vm.guest.ipaddress

        $report += $list
}

$report | export-csv c:\temp\listallnamesandipaddresses.csv
user3520245
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One can connect to vcenter(comes with vsphere) using powershell(C#) and Powercli module installed in powershell. You can firstly connect to vcenter using this command:

Connect-VIServer $vCenter

Then to list out all VM hosted on added esxi host on vcenter use this command:

Get-VM | Select Name, @{N="IP Address";E={@($_.guest.IPAddress[0])}}
Devarshi Singh
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