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Hi,

Is there a way to see/export the OS type of the VMs?

We are trying to find out how many Windows servers we have of each version (2016, 2012).

Thanks

Regards
Hi,

Login to Prism and go to Health, Click "VMs" and click "Operating Systems" which will list VMs group by OS. Here you can see number of VMs grouped by OS type.



To export click 3 horizontal lines on top central panel to change the view to list. Click the wheel next to search (in central panel) and click export as csv..



Next to view type "Group VMs by Operating System" you have drop-down for OS type which will list VMs per OS type group.



Hope that works for you..



F>P
Thank you for the reply but I don't find the group by OS option.

Any idea why?









Thanks

Pablo
Hi,

What i noticed is my way only works with ESXi and not AHV, can u try installing NGT on VMs and see if it shows OS column.



F>P
Hi,

I tried installing NGT to one VDI but still no luck, probably the option is not available



Pablo
Hi, I'm running the most current version as part of a POC. How can we see the Guest OS on each VM?
Same Question here.

I want to report list of VM's and installed OS per VM

Is there a solution?
You could just do it in Powershell and not even use Nutanix;



This will list all enabled Server Objects by OS and show hostnames too;



code:
Get-ADComputer -Filter {(OperatingSystem -like "*windows*server*") -and (Enabled -eq "True")} -Properties OperatingSystem | sort OperatingSystem | ft DNSHostName, OperatingSystem
You could just do it in Powershell and not even use Nutanix;



This will list all enabled Server Objects by OS and show hostnames too;



code:
Get-ADComputer -Filter {(OperatingSystem -like "*windows*server*") -and (Enabled -eq "True")} -Properties OperatingSystem | sort OperatingSystem | ft DNSHostName, OperatingSystem









Or if you just want to count them but not get a list try this;

code:
$Servers = Get-ADComputer -Filter {(OperatingSystem -like "*windows*server*") -and (Enabled -eq "True")} -Properties OperatingSystem | Sort Name


$servers | group operatingsystem
So, there is no way to do it in PRISM, beside using of powershell and server group?
Additional question: Is an AHV cluster even aware of guest OS types or versions at all?



I've read through (although not tried) some pretty advanced reporting scripts in the VCDX56 blog, but I cannot spot any OS related info there either.
I think that the only Ntx instance to query for guest OS type, release and version are NGT, for a single VM it goes like this:



code:
CVM$ nutanix_guest_tools_cli query_vm_tools_entity "d180a45e-7a45-4542-b17f-e4ac21ac55b7"






In the output we find



code:
   guest_os_type: kWindows
   guest_os_release: "Windows7Professional"
   is_windows_server_os: false
   guest_os_version: "6.1.7601"







A query through arithmos_cli gives OS type and release like "windows:64:WindowsServer2008R2Standard" for all VMs in the cluster:



code:
CVM$ arithmos_cli master_get_entities entity_type=vm | grep -A 1  "vm_name\|ngt.guest_os"
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