Comments on: VESI & PowerGUI PowerPack V2

By: kenny

kenny — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:52:29 +0000

Great stuff Al. Finally got around to taking a look. Very fast and easy to setup! Thanks

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:44:44 +0000

Great work Alan.
Have loved your ideas and have used some of them in my own scripts.
I recently had to check for consistency of VM name and the folders, and extended this to also include checking for .vhdk disks that are stored on different data stores than the .vmx config.
I started with your powerpack function and came across another idea from http://get-admin.com/blog and came up with the following code lines to check the folder names and data stores.

..
$vm = “” | Select-object VmPathName,vmdisks #…
..
$vm.VmPathName = $vmachine.config.files.VmPathName
$vm.vmdisks =@( foreach ($item in $vmachine.Layout.Disk ) {$item.DiskFile} )
..
$PathRegEx = “\[(?.+)\]\s(?.+)/(?.+)\.vm.+$”
$vm.vmpathname -match $PathRegEx
#to separate the component parts and then use -match against the stored regex name
#as in
if ($VM.Name -ne $matches.Folder) {#inconsistent folder name }

foreach ($Path in $vm.VMDisks) {
$vm.vmpathname -match $PathRegEx
if ($Matches.DataStore -ne $VMXDataStore) {#different lun }

So glad you have made the time to put your ideas together on a blog.

By: Netbuster

Netbuster — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:36:57 +0000

Great work !!!
I love your tool, but i´m missing one point…
Maybe you can add in a next Version an report that lists all from a VM used storage (Disks (fore each disk in GB)and Snaphots (number of Snapsots and komplete used storage) ??? This would be great

Thanx,
Buster

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:38:09 +0000

@Frank Another great idea, keep em coming !

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:20:23 +0000

Great tools, Alan! I’d love to have the possibility to view (and maybe set) the preferred path for LUNs. I found your script in the VMware community (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/237752), however as I’m not a scripter, I was not yet able to get it running within EcoShell yet.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:39:11 +0000

@Alan Renouf Thanks. That worked without issues.

By: Jerry C

Jerry C — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:23:32 +0000

Al, any ideas about how to check for stale VM’s using The VESI?

By: Alan Renouf

Alan Renouf — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:18:36 +0000

@Aaron Great idea, I will add this.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:12:42 +0000

Al, great update. This is an amazing PowerPack. I do have one thing that i would love to see added to both the PowerPack, and more importantly, the vCheck script. I would love to have it check on machines that are not set to auto-start with the host reboots. This would be very helpful in my environment.

Thanks for the great work, and keep it up!!

app

By: Alan Renouf

Alan Renouf — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:00:15 +0000

@NiTRo @Maish @PiroNet Thanks for the comments guys, im glad you are finding it usefull.