Q. How can I quickly get the status of all the virtual machines (VMs) System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is managing from PowerShell?

A. VMM contains a number of PowerShell cmdlets, including the Get-VM cmdlet, which gathers a huge amount of information about each VM, including its status. You can use the format-table cmdlet to show only specific information, such as VMs' names and status, as shown below.

The command

get-vm | format-table ComputerNameString, Status -auto

gives me

ComputerNameString Status------------------ ------SAVDALDC11.savilltech.net Runningsavdalclient.savilltech.net Runningsavdaldc10.savilltech.net Runningsavdalwss10.savilltech.net Runningsavdalscvmm.savilltech.net Runningsavdalts01.savilltech.net RunningSAVDALRODC01.savilltech.net Runningsavdalex01.savilltech.net Running

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