This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Get-VM', in PowerShell version 3 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
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Gets the virtual machines from one or more Hyper-V hosts.
Get-VM [[-Name] <String[]>] [-ComputerName <String[]>] [<CommonParameters>]
Get-VM [-ClusterObject] <PSObject> [<CommonParameters>]
Get-VM [[-Id] <Guid>] [-ComputerName <String[]>] [<CommonParameters>]
The Get-VM cmdlet gets the virtual machines from one or more Hyper-V hosts.
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Example 1
PS C:\>Get-VM
This example gets all virtual machines on the local virtual machine host.
Example 2
PS C:\>Get-VM –ComputerName Server1 | Where-Object {$_.State –eq ‘Running’}
This example gets all virtual machines on Hyper-V host Server1 that are running.
Example 3
PS C:\>Get-ClusterGroup | ? {$_.GroupType –eq ‘VirtualMachine’ } | Get-VM
This example gets all virtual machines in the cluster to which the local Hyper-V host is joined.