Comments on: PowerCLI: Virtual Machine disk usage

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:47:25 +0000

First a foremost, thank you for the script. It has been very helpful. I am wondering how I can change the sorting so that my export file is sorted by name rather than number of disks. If I change “Sort-Object -Descending NumDisks” to “Sort-Object Name” the list does sort correctly, but I lose all the fields for any disks that aren’t 0. I’m sure it’s something simple…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:18:50 +0000

This script is great. I am curious how I would change it, though, so that the “Name” is the DNS name instead of the name in the VI inventory?

Thanks,

Jeff

By: sas

sas — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:50:34 +0000

Answered my own question by moving the Export-CSV to outside the braces. So my question is now what would be the easiest way to add the datastore, vmdk path, naa…. #, if it’s thin provisioned and if it’s an RDM into the scritp above? I will keep working and hopefully answer this before you read this.

By: sas

sas — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:29:41 +0000

Sorry that should have been:

“Name”,”Diskpath”,”DiskCapacity(MB)”,”DiskFreeSpace(MB)”
“vm1″,”C:\”,”20466″,”9241″
“vm1″,”E:\”,”20473″,”20408″
“vm1″,”F:\”,”102398″,”84243″

By: sas

sas — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:28:53 +0000

Is there anyway to output the disks for a server to it’s own line when exporting to csv. So that the it would like like this?

“Name”,”Diskpath”,”DiskCapacity(MB)”,”DiskFreeSpace(MB)”
“vm1″,”C:\”,”20466″,”9241″
“vm1″,”E:\”,”20473″,”20408″,”F:\”,”102398″,”84243″

By: KFM

KFM — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:08:34 +0000

@Virtu-Al: Thanks mate – that worked a treat!

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:07:13 +0000

KFM, try outputting this to Export-CSV rather than Out-Gridview, it should then work as this is an issue with Out-Gridview.

By: KFM

KFM — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:59:22 +0000

I’m only seeing up to two disks per VM even though I know the VM has more than two attached disks. I’ve looked at the PS code and can’t fathom why this is happening. Is anyone else getting the same result?

By: Jarod H

Jarod H — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:17:47 +0000

How would i go about adding up the total capacity of all the drives in the VM?

By: Rich B

Rich B — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:30:58 +0000

Ok, I can found the filter in vEcoShell. Is there anywhere on the vEcoShell site that lists valid format for regular expressions? Can you pass variables back into the expression, such as ‘Disk1Freespace(MB)’? I need to calculate the ‘free’ space as a % or fraction of the total size. Maybe I’m better off doing it in the code…?