VMware PowerCLI – How to list VMs with mounted ISO and dismount them

VMware PowerCLI – How to list VMs with mounted ISO and dismount them

always is the same… when you dismounting or removing datastore you need disconnect mounted iso from all VMs… and this is very boring and time consuming, the easy way is use PowerCli !

Get-VM | Get-CDDrive | select @{N="VM";E="Parent"},IsoPath | where {$_.IsoPath -ne $null}

To get all virtual machines with mounted iso:

Get-VM | Get-CDDrive | where {$_.IsoPath -ne $null} | Set-CDDrive -NoMedia -Confirm:$False

To unmount all iso from all virtual machines:

in my case:

PS C:\> Get-VM | Get-CDDrive | select @{N="VM";E="Parent"},IsoPath | where {$_.IsoPath -ne $null}

VM        IsoPath
--        -------
tka-mng01 [datastore1] iso/SW_DVD9_Win_Server_STD_CORE_2016_64Bit_English_-4_DC_STD_MLF_X21-70526.ISO


PS C:\> Get-VM | Get-CDDrive | where {$_.IsoPath -ne $null} | Set-CDDrive -NoMedia -Confirm:$False

IsoPath              HostDevice                             RemoteDevice
-------              ----------                             ------------

PS C:\>