Comments on: PowerCLI: How many VMs on your Datastores ?

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:50:47 +0000

Yes, there are multiple orphoned VM scripts on the web which you could use.

By: Anoop

Anoop — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:10:47 +0000

Hi,

I have a many VMs in my data store that are not added to Vcentre inventory. Is it possible to delete only those VMs through a script as the number is too big to delete manually. The complete setup is in a cluster.

Thanks in advance

By: Ferry

Ferry — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:12:50 +0000

nice oneliner
but it would be better not only to know who many vm’s are running on the datastore …but also know the amount of used hosts or this ammount of vm for each datastore.

regards
Ferry Limpens

By: praveen

praveen — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:11:42 +0000

it helped me lot thank you

By: Anky

Anky — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:38:27 +0000

Thanks Guys , its a good one-liner script.

However I am calling this script in my other script to get the output in HTML format , however the issue is while using this
$TotalVM = Get-Datastore Sharepoint_Datastore2 | Select Name ,@{N=”TotalVM”;E={@($_ | Get-VM).Count}}| select totalvm

this gives me output as @{TotalVM=1}

Also I am using below however I am not getting any output if VM count is less than 2

$TotalVM = (Get-VM -DataStore $datastore).count

Since I am new to Powercli , Can someone help me out on this..

Thanks in Advance

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:06:36 +0000

Hi Folks,
I would like to have a script for complete datastore information such as datastore total size & free size, how many # of VMs per datasore currently running that can be run as schedule task and send an email upcon completion the script with the report.

awaiting your positive response.

Thank you all in advance,

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:57:28 +0000

Thats strange, the only thing I can think of is that it is an issue with copying the code from my site, are you using the “copy Source” button that appears when you hover over the code ?

Yes, it definately does work on SAN datastores

By: DCJim

DCJim — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:05:29 +0000

Al,

I admit I am new to PowerCLI scripting (very new, even), but after running this against my cluster, I see a list of the DataStores, but no heading for “NumVM” and no vm count.

Is it possible I cannot type this one line correctly? Or perhaps this does not work on SAN DataStores?

Thanks very much for the assistance.

By: FAQ » PowerCLI: How many VMs on your Datastores ?

FAQ » PowerCLI: How many VMs on your Datastores ? — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:22:08 +0000

[...] nice oneline script to show the total VM’s on your datastore: Get-Datastore | Select Name, [...]

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:20:30 +0000

Al,

This is great! I agree with Chris, this would be a perfect addition to the Daily Report (especially if it was set to report based on a custom threshold)