Getting Azure VM OS name using PowerShell

Question

I have been trying to get the VM OS name from Microsoft Azure using PowerShell.

I think I am very close to the solution but I don't know where I'm going wrong.

This is the command that I am using to get the VM details:

Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName TEST -Name VF-Test1 | Select OsType

The answer I get is just blank.

When running the following command:

Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName TEST -Name VF-Test1

I get all the details that belong to that VM.

Solution 1

The osType property lives inside $_.StorageProfile.osDisk

Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName TEST -Name VMNAME |
    Format-Table Name, @{l='osType';e={$_.StorageProfile.osDisk.osType}}

Name      osType
------    ------
VMNAME    Windows

Use https://resources.azure.com to explore the object representation when in doubt, or pipe to Show-Object, like i did below.

Solution 2

Get-AzVM -name SERVERNAME | select name, @{n="OS";E={$_.StorageProfile.OsDisk.OsType}}, @{n="Offer";E={$_.StorageProfile.ImageReference.offer}} , @{n="SKU";E={$_.StorageProfile.ImageReference.sku}}, @{n="Publisher";E={$_.StorageProfile.ImageReference.Publisher}} 

RESULT:

Solution 3

You can get resource groups' VMs by Get-AzureRmVM and classic VMs by Get-AzureVM. Both of the returning values of the two cmdlets contain OS type properties but in different paths.

• For the cmdlet Get-AzureRmVM, the OS type property path is $vm.StorageProfile.OsDisk.OsType
• For the cmdlet Get-AzureVM, the OS type property path is $vm.VM.OSVirtualHardDisk.OS

There exists a sample code about fetching Azure VM OS Type here: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/How-to-retrieve-Azure-5a3d3751

Comments

[evilSnobu]

Non-programming related questions are best suited for serverfault.com

[Jason Ye]

@user2956653 you can use (get-azurermvm -ResourceGroupName jason -Name vm1).StorageProfile.OsDisk.OsType to get the type.

[user2956653]

Thank you for the answer! it worked like a treat. and the website seems very useful thank you.