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How To get the CPU, Memory and HDD Size from Power Off VMs ?

How To get the CPU, Memory and HDD Size from Power Off VMs ?

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Madhu

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LucD
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What do you mean by 'HDD Size'?

The name and size of the partitions inside the guest OS?

Or the size of the VMDK attached to the VM?


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ganapa2000
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Hi LucD,

I am looking for following feilds

FolderNameIP AddressVM PowerStateOSCPUMemory (GB)Capacity(GB)UsedSpace(GB)FreeSpace(GB)FreeSpace(%)

I am able to get the details of Powered On VMs but I would like to get the details of Powered Off VMs as well.

Please help.

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LucD
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Not too sure what you attached there?

That code does produce information for all VMs, independent of their powerstate.

Or are you looking for a complete new script to get the info you listed?


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ganapa2000
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Hi LucD,

I have attached the current script, which I am using. It works fine for VMs which are Powered On but for Powered Off VMs, I am unable to get the HDD (Capacity) as it shows blank (zero)

Need you help, if attached script can be tweaked to get the details of Powered Off VMs or a new script.

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LucD
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When the VM is powered off for a longer time, that information, which is obtained through the VMware Tools, is not available.

No solution for VMs that are powered off for a longer time I'm afraid.


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ganapa2000
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Hi LucD,

I am able to get the HDD Capacity of Powered Off VMs using

get-vm | Select Name,NumCpu,MemoryGB,UsedSpaceGB

But How do I get this added to my script, use above code only if the VMs are Powered Off else continue to current code

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LucD
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Those are 2 different measurements, the one under Guest is measured inside the guest OS, the one you just mentioned is measured from outside the guest OS.


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ganapa2000
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For Powered Off, I am good with measured from outside the guest OS

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LucD
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Try the attached script.

When the VM is powered off, instead of the individual guest OS partitions, you will see 'All' in MountPoint column.


Blog: lucd.info  Twitter: @LucD22  Co-author PowerCLI Reference

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