DataStore housekeeping

[AaronGlow]

I need to audit my storage environment as it is filling up on 2 vcenters.

Phase 1

First I looked at the current VMs that are running and where their files are located.

get-vm | fl name, Host, DatastoreIdList, PowerState

This shows me most of what I am looking for, but I see that some of these VM are connected to multiple DataStores(DS) even though there is only one listed under the VM configuration.  So I have some info and I am not sure what DS is correct or why its listing multiples? 

Phase 2

Then some the luns have VMs that removed from inventory that are no longer needed.  These VM are consuming valuable resources and I would like to retain the VMDK and configs to a backup location.

Is there a way to see/export a complete list of folders on each DS sorted by the least recently accessed?

Many Thanks!

Aaron

[LucD · Accepted solution]

1) Could it be that some of the VMs have harddisks that are located on other datastores then where the VM's folder is located.

You can check with

Get-VM | Get-Harddisk |

Select @{N='VM';E={$_.Parent.Name}},Name,FileName

2) You can check for orphaned files with the script in Orphaned files and folders – Spring cleaning

[AaronGlow]

Thank you for the quick response and btw i have been reading on your blog for some time.  So thank you for keeping that updated!  So just to be sure as I do not want to remove anything yet but all I would need to do to collect the info and not delete would be to remove this?

  param(

  [parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true)]

  [PSObject[]]$Datastore,

  [switch]$Delete

  )

Thank you!

[LucD]

If you do not add the Delete switch on the call, the function will only list the orphaned files.

See the Sample Runs further down the post

[RWurgley]

LucD,

Is there a way to alter your housekeeping script to move the files to a "Cleanup" folder on the datastore, instead of deleting them?

[LucD]

That is a good idea!
It's not in the current version of the script, but it shouldn't be too hard to add that functionality.