I recently came across a VM while generating a server list. I have a script that queries Active Directory for all server-based operating systems. I take that script and query the servers for the make/model info. Recently, I saw a VM in the list and was curious because I wasn't familiar with it. My script uses WMI to query two items:
SystemManufacturer
SystemProductName (AKA Model)
For Hyper-V VM's, the SystemManufacturer is Microsoft Corporation.
For Hyper-V VM's, the SystemProductName is Virtual Machine.
There are a number of ways to get the values. WMI using VBScript. PowerShell. Or just reading the values from the registry via REGEDIT.
REGEDIT: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SystemInformation
PowerShell: Get-WmiObject -Query "select * from Win32_ComputerSystem"
VBScript (watch out for line wrapping, tie this VBScript into larger script):
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem", "WQL", wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly)
For Each objItem In colItems
objTextFile.WriteLine strComputer
objTextFile.WriteLine objItem.Manufacturer & " " & objItem.Model
objTextFile.WriteLine
Next
If anybody wants the entire script (for automating querying a large number of servers), comment and I'll post it.
However, as others have pointed out (see: http://www.commandbreak.com/CommentView,guid,53004814-7f71-4772-bba2-4b77988d9b73.aspx#commentstart) - other Microsoft virutalization platforms return that same data. So you have to look a little further to distinguish Hyper-V VM's:
BIOSReleaseDate
Generally speaking, the BIOSReleaseDate for Hyper-V VM's will be 2008 and later while everything else will be older (2006, etc.). This isn't that concrete but it's a starting point. But now what? Even if you determine that you have a Hyper-V VM, how do you determine which Hyper-V host it resides on? Where is the management operating system?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters
There are three values here that are of interest:
HostName REG_SZ
PhysicalHostName REG_SZ
PhysicalHostNameFullyQualified
Here is where I finally found the concrete answer. Once you have the host name, you can quickly manage it and get the rest of the details you need. I haven't had a chance to compare this data with that of Virtual Server. But I think I'll build some of this data into my scripts.
For those asking for the same thing but for VMWare (ESX or VSphere) - I cross checked this against both and while the make/model info is valid, the rest isn't. I will have to dive into determine your host ESX/VSphere server from a VMWare VM another time.
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