Oh, hey guys.

I have much thinking to do on this question, but most of what I've done so far is VM snapshot and power state scripting. I am really waiting for the next release when we get host mgmt stuff, that's something I'm very interested in.

Do to some "creative" design decisions early on in our implementation, we have a lot of datastores. As we fix those creative decisions, we are accumulating quite a few of datastores that are no longer in use. I wrote a little script to help me identify datastores without VMs.

#Outputs a list of unused datastores
ForEach ($ds in get-datastore) {
# I like output in objects
$Output = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSObject
Add-Member -InputObject $Output NoteProperty DataStoreName $ds.Name
#This will tell us if any VMs see the datastore.
$VMs = get-vm -Datastore $ds
If ($VMs){
Add-Member -InputObject $Output NoteProperty HasVMs "Yes"
}Else{
Add-Member -InputObject $Output NoteProperty HasVMs "No"
}
$Output
}

1. We are a VAC partner. I would like to create some functions to collect data from multiple client sites, then schedule updates to that data. Since we support a number of clients with different setups it would be nice for us to have current info on Hosts, VM's, and resources, etc...
2. For VDI POC and Pilots it would be good to deploy a bunch of vm's from templates, monitor them, then get rid of them when we are finished. So I can have sort of a turn-key way to deploy an entire solution, keeping things standard, and be as effecient as possible.
3. Last, I come from a Network Admin background so I like to make repetitive tasks go away.