Hi Folks, this is a script to determine if the machine is a Virtual Machine or a Physical server, very useful in large Datacenters where sometimes you have to determine large lists of servers.<\/p>\n
\n\n<#\n.Synopsis\n A quick function to determine if a computer is VM or physical box.\n.DESCRIPTION\n This function is designed to quickly determine if a local or remote\n computer is a physical machine or a virtual machine.\n.NOTES\n Created by: Michael\n Modified: 4\/20\/2017 03:28:53 PM \n\n To Do:\n * Find the Model information for other hypervisor VM's (i.e KVM).\n.EXAMPLE\n Get-MachineType\n Query if the local machine is a physical or virtual machine.\n.EXAMPLE\n Get-MachineType -ComputerName SERVER01 \n Query if SERVER01 is a physical or virtual machine.\n.EXAMPLE\n Get-MachineType -ComputerName (Get-Content c:\\temp\\computerlist.txt)\n Query if a list of computers are physical or virtual machines.\n\n#>\nFunction Get-MachineType\n{\n [CmdletBinding()]\n [OutputType([PSCustomObject])]\n Param\n (\n # ComputerName\n [Parameter(Mandatory=$false,\n ValueFromPipeline=$true,\n ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,\n Position=0)]\n [string[]]$ComputerName=$env:COMPUTERNAME,\n $Credential = [System.Management.Automation.PSCredential]::Empty\n )\n\n Begin\n {\n }\n Process\n {\n foreach ($Computer in $ComputerName) {\n Write-Verbose "Checking $Computer"\n try {\n # Check to see if $Computer resolves DNS lookup successfuly.\n $null = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostEntry($Computer)\n \n $ComputerSystemInfo = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName $Computer -ErrorAction Stop -Credential $Credential\n \n switch ($ComputerSystemInfo.Model) {\n \n # Check for Hyper-V Machine Type\n "Virtual Machine" {\n $MachineType="VM"\n }\n\n # Check for VMware Machine Type\n "VMware Virtual Platform" {\n $MachineType="VM"\n }\n\n # Check for Oracle VM Machine Type\n "VirtualBox" {\n $MachineType="VM"\n }\n\n # Check for Xen\n "HVM domU" {\n $MachineType="VM"\n }\n\n # Check for KVM\n # I need the values for the Model for which to check.\n\n # Otherwise it is a physical Box\n default {\n $MachineType="Physical"\n }\n }\n \n # Building MachineTypeInfo Object\n $MachineTypeInfo = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property ([ordered]@{\n ComputerName=$ComputerSystemInfo.PSComputername\n Type=$MachineType\n Manufacturer=$ComputerSystemInfo.Manufacturer\n Model=$ComputerSystemInfo.Model\n })\n $MachineTypeInfo\n }\n catch [Exception] {\n Write-Output "$Computer`: $($_.Exception.Message)"\n }\n }\n }\n End\n {\n\n }\n}\n\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi Folks, this is a script to determine if the machine is a Virtual Machine or a Physical server, very useful in large Datacenters where sometimes you have to determine large lists of servers. <# .Synopsis A quick function to determine if a computer is VM or physical box. .DESCRIPTION […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,12,6,11,9,10],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-michael-goulart","tag-microsoft","tag-powershell","tag-script","tag-virtual-or-physical","tag-vm-or-physical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/brgeek.com.br\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/powershell-tips-and-tricks_w_640.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brgeek.com.br\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brgeek.com.br\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brgeek.com.br\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brgeek.com.br\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brgeek.com.br\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/brgeek.com.br\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"http:\/\/brgeek.com.br\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brgeek.com.br\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brgeek.com.br\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brgeek.com.br\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brgeek.com.br\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}