Datacenter information

[ief]

Is there a easy way to retrieve the datacenter information in VC such as:

Number of:

- Hosts

- Virtual Machines

- Clusters

- Networks

- Datastores

[LucD · Accepted solution]

That is quit easy in PowerShell and the VITK.

Get-VMHost | Measure-Object | Select Count
Get-VM | Measure-Object | Select Count
Get-Cluster | Measure-Object | Select Count
Get-VirtualPortGroup -VMHost (Get-VMHost -Name <ESX-hostname>) | Measure-Object | Select Count
Get-Datastore | Measure-Object | Select Count

Note that you can add selection criteria in between to select specific objects.

For example, if you only want to count the VMFS datastores you could do:

Get-Datastore | Where-Object {$_.Type -eq "VMFS"} | Measure-Object | select Count

[alanrenouf]

LucD, man your fast, i just got it and was about to paste an answer, do a refresh and BANG !

I hope the communities are paying you for that sort of a response :smileygrin:

[LucD]

Alan, don't deprive us from your answer.

With your experience on reporting I'm sure you could ameliorate my rather basic reply.

PS1: it was mostly a cut & paste job from our local FAQ

PS2: with the current VMW stock prices I wouldn't dare to ask for payment

[Poshoholic]

Easy doesn't mean fast in this case. If you're enumerating all datacenters in a virtual center installation and you want the statistics to show up in a nice table, is there an easy way to get this information without making so many calls? If there were a way to do this with the SDK I'd be happy to use that and write my own function wrapper for it.

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