Get all .vmx files with 0 bytes

[bvi1006]

Hi,

I am trying to find .vmx files which are 0 bytes. I am using a portion of LucD's script but I am not sure what I am doing :smileyconfused: ..... can someone help? Eventually I would like save all of the file names which are 0 bytes into a file. Basically, even if I skip the loop  and just run this against 1 datastore the script seems to never end or return anything.

Thanks!

$ESXHost = Get-Cluster $Cluster | Get-VMHost | select -First 1

$Datastores = Get-Datastore | where {$_.Name -notlike "*local"}

foreach ($Datastore in $Datastores) {

     $zerobytes = @{}

        Get-VM -Datastore  $datastore | %{$_.Extensiondata.LayoutEx.File | where {$_.Name -like "*.vmx"} }

                 New-PSDrive -Name TgtDS -Location $Datastore -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root '\' | Out-Null

$zerobytes = @(Get-ChildItem -Path TgtDS: -Recurse | where {$_.FolderPath -notmatch ".snapshot" -and $_.Name -like "*.vmx"  -and $_.length -eq 0})

PSDrive-NameTgtDS

[LucD]

Try something like this, but note that the datastore psprovider is notr particularly fast.

It might take some time, depending on the number and the size of your datastores.

$clusterName = "MyCluster"
Get-Cluster -Name $clusterName | Get-VMHost | Get-Random | Get-Datastore |
where {$_.Name -notmatch "local" -and $_.Type -eq "VMFS"} | %{
  New-PSDrive -Name TgtDS -Location $_ -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root '\' | Out-Null
  Get-ChildItem -Path TgtDS:\ -Recurse |
  where {$_.ItemType -eq "VmConfigFile" -and $_.Length -eq 0} |
  Select DatastoreFullPath
  Remove-PSDrive -Name TgtDS -Confirm:$false
}

[bvi1006]

Hi Luc,

I cannot seem to get any output. I know there is a .vmx file with zero bytes in a subdirectory on one datastore... I have even modified the script to just get the datastore and search recursively.... would you please take a second look? Thanks

[LucD]

Just did some tests, and for me the script reports all 0-byte VMX files it finds.

 

Are you sure that the VMX file actually has a 0-byte length ?

Try running this slightly adapted script, it will show all VMX files and their size.

$clusterName = "MyCluster"
Get-Cluster -Name $clusterName | Get-VMHost | Get-Random | Get-Datastore |
where {$_.Name -notmatch "local" -and $_.Type -eq "VMFS"} | %{
  New-PSDrive -Name TgtDS -Location $_ -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root '\' | Out-Null
  Get-ChildItem -Path TgtDS:\ -Recurse |
  where {$_.ItemType -eq "VmConfigFile"} |
  Select DatastoreFullPath,Length
  Remove-PSDrive -Name TgtDS -Confirm:$false
}