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Script to retrive total ports and available ports

alexander19 — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:41:14 GMT

Hello,

I would like to get from vSphere Distributed Switch total ports and available ports. I have tried few ways to get this informations, but i could not find a way to accomplish this. Is any chance to create this kind of script?

Thanks!

Re: Script to retrive total ports and available ports

LucD — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:44:06 GMT

Have a look at Script to get DVportgroup or Standardswtich portgroup Name, Vlan id, total ports and available ports

Re: Script to retrive total ports and available ports

alexander19 — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:50:28 GMT

I looked on that script but for my project I need total number from that Vswitch if you know what i mean.

Re: Script to retrive total ports and available ports

LucD — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:32:25 GMT

Ok, got it (I think).
Try like this

Get-VDSwitch |

Select Name,

@{N='Total Ports';E={$_.NumPorts}},

@{N='Available Ports';E={

$vds = $_

$hPorts = $vds.ExtensionData.Config.Host.UplinkPortKey.Count

$vPorts = (Get-View -Id $vds.ExtensionData.Summary.Vm | %{

$_.Config.Hardware.Device |

where{$_.Backing -and

$_.Backing.GetType().Name -match "distributed" -and

$_.Backing.Port.SwitchUuid -eq $vds.ExtensionData.Uuid}}).Count

$vds.NumPorts - $hPorts - $vPorts

}}

Re: Script to retrive total ports and available ports

alexander19 — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 11:43:32 GMT

I need some packeg or something like that because I get this errror:

Get-VDSwitch : The term 'Get-VDSwitch' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a

path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

Re: Script to retrive total ports and available ports

LucD — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 11:46:59 GMT

Which PowerCLI version are you running?

Do a Get-PowerCLIVersion

If you can upgrade to the latest version, which is modules only, you can just execute the following line once before running the script.

Get-Module -Name VMware* -ListAvailable | Import-Module

Re: Script to retrive total ports and available ports

alexander19 — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 11:50:59 GMT

PowerCLI Version

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VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.8 Release 1 build 2057893

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Snapin Versions

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VMWare AutoDeploy PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1983942

VMWare ImageBuilder PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1983942

VMware License PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1265954

VMware Storage PowerCLI Component 5.8 build 2057894

VMware VDS PowerCLI Component 5.8 build 2031581

VMware vSphere PowerCLI Component 5.8 build 2031581

Re: Script to retrive total ports and available ports

LucD — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:05:20 GMT

Is there a specific reason you're on that older release?

Or can you upgrade to the latest version?

Re: Script to retrive total ports and available ports

alexander19 — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:24:04 GMT

unfortunately i need to kep this version because is a productive enviroment and i cannot upgrade to last version because currently we have a lot of script running over this version, so it will take a lot of work and time if i will upgrade to last version

Re: Script to retrive total ports and available ports

LucD — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:35:33 GMT

I see.

In that case try replacing the Get-VDSwitch cmdlet by

Get-VirtualSwitch -Distributed

Re: Script to retrive total ports and available ports

alexander19 — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 13:29:38 GMT

Just perfect. Work as was expected. Thank you very much!