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How to check physical adapters from virtual NICs?

In today’s world virtual is reality already.  Virtual servers, virtual computers, virtual attitude of people almost anything now can be virtualized.

How to check people with virtual attitude?  PowerShell is not able to help with that, what PowerShell can help is to check physical NIC from virtual network adapters.

This script below will be useful in an environment where Hyper-V is installed. It will list physical and virtual NICs.

To check physical adapters the value is true, false if not physical adapter.


Here’s the script to check and list physical and virtual network adapters.

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$nic = Get-WmiObject -class Win32_NetworkAdapter

Write-Host "Number of NICs: "$nic.Count

foreach ($nicx in $nic) {
     "Network Adapter name is: " + $nicx.name + "Network Adapter is Physcial: " + $nicx.physicaladapter
}

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Sample output;

Number of NICs:  10
Network Adapter name is: Microsoft Kernel Debug Network AdapterNetwork Adapter is Physical: False
Network Adapter name is: VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet AdapterNetwork Adapter is Physical: True
Network Adapter name is: Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network AdapterNetwork Adapter is Physical: True
Network Adapter name is: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.30)Network Adapter is Physical: True
Network Adapter name is: Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI)Network Adapter is Physical: False
Network Adapter name is: Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)Network Adapter is Physical: True
Network Adapter name is: Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual AdapterNetwork Adapter is Physical: False
Network Adapter name is: Microsoft ISATAP AdapterNetwork Adapter is Physical: False
Network Adapter name is: WAN Miniport (SSTP)Network Adapter is Physical: False
Network Adapter name is: WAN Miniport (IKEv2)Network Adapter is Physical: False


Cheers..Enjoy.. 


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