vSphere PowerCLI : VMware Infrastructure Power Documenter : Comments

RE: VMware Infrastructure Power Documenter

JohnTroyer — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:24:45 GMT

From Scott Lowe:
http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/12/05/installing-the-vi-power-documenter/

The VMware Infrastructure Power Documenter (hereafter referred to as VIPD) is a nifty PowerShell script that queries VirtualCenter and produces reports of VM configurations, data center inventory, VM stats, etc. Last time I tried to install VIPD, though, I found the installation instructions seriously lacking. Today I had the opportunity to work with a customer to get this installed, and I wanted to share my information here. These instructions are not to be construed as the “official” way of making VIPD work, just what I had to go through in order for it to work.

RE: VMware Infrastructure Power Documenter

grog — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:01:00 GMT

Is it possible to add an environment overview to this reporting tool? It would be nice to mesh the text based reporting tool from Adidas6 and this tool. Ideally the following info...

Environment Overview Report:
Pull average CPU and Mem from each cluster along with total number of hosts, total number vms and vms per host in each cluster
Pull Datastore info Total Capacity, Total Free and Total Used
Show %Used of all Datastores

Environment Hotlist Report:
VMs over 70% CPU/Mem usage
Hosts over 70% CPU/Mem usage
VMs under 5% CPU/Mem Usage
Datastores with less than 5% available

It would be nice to be able to track this report of time and see how your environment is trending...