Utilize Measure PowerShell command to get vCenter VMs HW versions

Question

I've never used PowerShell measure command, but found it pretty handy and it can make my code shorter.

For now I'm looking how to get a report about VMs count and HW version they run on. Using latest gratest vCenter 6.5 U2 and PowerCLI 10.1

Output has to be like this:

 v9 | 123 v10 | 234 v11 | 345 v12 | 456 v13 | 789 

Please notice I'm trying to get this result with measure command, I know how to write a bit longer code to get the data.

Answer 1

Use Group-Object cmdlet instead. It does the heavy lifting. Example (not tested but should be correct):

Get-VM | Group-Object -Property Version | Select-Object -Property Name,Count 

Or just

Get-VM | Group-Object -Property Version -NoElement