Hello, as you probably know the only way to find out about HBA firmware and driver versions these days is by running:

/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmgmt_keyval/vmkmgmt_keyval -d     to see which are the HBA devices, then

/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmgmt_keyval/vmkmgmt_keyval -l -i vmhba1/qlogic     to actually retrieve the needed  info for a hba. In this particular case I get this precious data below:

value:

QLogic PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter for QMH2562:

        FC Firmware version 8.02.00 (90d5), Driver version 2.1.50.0

which I need to retrieve from all my ESXi and save to a file. I enjoy writing simple powercli scripts but I’m puzzled about this one. I know that esxcli commands can be scripted too but what about this? I could script something with plink

$plink = plink path

$plinkAuth = ” -v -pw $Pswd”

$remoteCommand = ‘/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmgmt_keyval/vmkmgmt_keyval -l -i vmhba1/qlogic‘

$command = “Echo Yes| “+$plink + ” “ + $plinkAuth + ” “ + $User + “@” + $hostName + ” “ + $remoteCommand

$result = Invoke–Expression –command $command

$result

but as the command above throws quite some stuff I don´t know how to grab only the data output I need and save it. Obviously this is to compare with vmware compatibility matrix later. Anyone did this? I already checked Re: Host Hardware info with HBA and nic driver information but the following values are returned blank, and not sure those match the  ones above that I need. I already added  the -V2 switch to the script of that post.

Fnicvendor   :

fnicdriver   :

enicdriver   :

Enicvendor   :