Virtual Machine’s Boot status (booting to the Guest OS or being forced to boot into BIOS ) by Power CLI sctipts .

Virtual Machine’s Boot status :

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.NOTES
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Created by: Rajiv Pandey
Web URL: www.vthesis.wordpress.com
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.DESCRIPTION
It will display the VM's boot status , either VM's
booting to the Guest OS or being forced to boot into BIOS.

#>

[CmdletBinding()]
param( 
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
ValueFromPipeline=$True,
Position=0)]
[VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.InventoryItemImpl[]]
$VM,
[switch]$IsSetup
)
Process {
if($IsSetup)
{
$Execute = $VM | where {$_.ExtensionData.Config.BootOptions.EnterBiosSetup -eq "true"} | Select Name,@{Name="EnterBiosSetup";Expression={$_.ExtensionData.config.BootOptions.EnterBiosSetup}}
}
else
{
$Execute = $VM | Select Name,@{Name="EnterBiosSetup";Expression={$_.ExtensionData.config.BootOptions.EnterBiosSetup}}
}
}
End {$Execute}

}

Thanks hope you like it.

Rajiv Pandey.