Storage Based Policy Management (SBPM) has been around for a while, when working with storage tiers, metro clusters, or vSAN, it’s either fundamental or best practice. But clicking on anything more than half a dozen vms and datastores is a bit too much hard work. Using a mix of PowerCLI and the web client I […]
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PowerCLI – Get-Datastore Naa and Capacity
simple script to extract fc naa and capacity info [code language=”powershell”] $AllDS = Get-Datastore $results = @() foreach ($ds in $AllDS) { $dsview = $ds | Get-View $resultsarray = "" | Select "DatastoreName","CanonicalName","CapacityGB","FreeSpaceGB" $resultsarray."DatastoreName" = $ds.Name $resultsarray."CanonicalName" = $dsview.info.vmfs.extent $resultsarray."CapacityGB" = $ds.CapacityGB $resultsarray."FreeSpaceGB" = $ds.FreeSpaceGB $results += $resultsarray } $results | Sort-Object DatastoreName [/code]
Insanely simple and incredibly useful PowerCLI snipits
I find that I’m spending an increasing amount of time in PowerCLI, partly that’s because I am working with groups of hosts or vms. It’s not that I’m working with scripts all the time, just that if I need to do some action at scale, a foreach loop is going to save a bunch of […]
VMware PowerCLI Script Library
I’m moving scripts to GitHub Mainly because it’s cool, but the formatting of scripts in wordpress is horrible, and I need to revisit most as I found mistakes in some, what’s in GitHub has been recently tested https://github.com/raoconnor Get-ByBlueFolders Series Many of us divide services or customers using blue folders, typically in a […]
PowerCLI – VMotion Report
DRS history will only show the most recent VMotion events, to get a more complete picture LudD has created a couple of fantastic functions. What they do is allow you to create a csv report of all the VMotion/SVMotions events of a period of time, for example 24, 48, or 72 hours – This is […]