Hello, is there a quick way to display all my guest vm's, hard disks and associated details for the hard disks that are associated with them. It would be nice to output this to a doc if poss any help appreciated.
Cheers
H
I was going to answer with a script, but you said the magic words "output this to a doc", so I'll point you to some great entries in the VI Toolkit contest which ended a couple of months ago:
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Cheers Hal, I have got this excellant script of Alan's and use it for other bits. Only prob for my bit at the moment is that it doesn't actually cover the individual VM Guests and relevant Disks and capcities against each one. My scripting skills are basic at best. If you have a script that could help I would be most appreciative.
PS any news on when you are going to release your book.
Cheers
H
How about this:
PS > $hdCapacity = @{ N = "CapacityKB"; E = { $_.HardDisks | % { $_.CapacityKB } } } PS > Get-VM | select Name, $hdCapacity | Format-Table -autosize Name CapacityKB ---- ---------- phatltest-bhaskar-RHEL5_SVM 12582912 New Virtual Machine 1048576 phatldev-jwu-dev-01 16777216
If you want to get freespace, then the Tools service must be running and you would do that this way:
PS > $hdCapacity = @{ N = "Capacity (bytes)"; E = { $_.Guest.Disks | % { $_.Capacity } } }
PS > $hdFreeSpace = @{ N = "FreeSpace (bytes)"; E = { $_.Guest.Disks | % { $_.FreeSpace } } }
PS > Get-VM | select Name, $hdCapacity, $hdFreeSpace
Name Capacity (bytes) FreeSpace (bytes)
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phatlvc02 {8578932736, 10733957120} {837120000, 9870405632}
svustika_test1
phatltest-tdodd-01 8578932736 5101920256
phatldev-ssnyder-01 14508892160 2677510144
Note the 2nd VM here doesn't have the tools service running, so you see there is no response.
The output for these isn't ideal because a VM can of course have multiple HDs. It may need tweaking to fit your requirements.
And for my book, it's looking like 1Q09 to be on shelves.
[PowerShell MVP|https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=5547F213-A069-45F8-B5D1-17E5BD3F362F], VI Toolkit forum moderator
Author of the upcoming book: Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell
Co-Host, PowerScripting Podcast (http://powerscripting.net)
Thanks Hal, appreciate you taking the time to look at this for me. Will have a play with this.