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How many blocks has not been zeroed out in a lazyzerofile

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Does anyone know an better way then vmkfstools -t0 to find out how many blocks that has not been zeroed out (i.e written to) in a lazyzero vmdk? I need to to this on thousands of powered on VM's.

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vmkfstools -D lots of sed/awk and plink wil do the trick Smiley Happy

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What I could think of is doing this using PowerCLI.

If you want I can move your question to the PowerCLI community.

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Why did powercli come to your mind? Do you have any basic idea how to do it?

Yeah move it and we will see Smiley Happy thanks

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You mentioned "I need to to this on thousands of powered on VM's" which actually "cries" for a scripted solution, and since PowerCLI is something which provides a wide range of options, and some excellent people are active in this community, I thought it might be a good idea to move this thread over to it.

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Afaik the vmkfstools command uses a number of private API for it's functionality.

So I'm afraid there is no direct alternative for executing the same function from within a PowerCLI script.

You can use plink.exe from the PuTTY Suite.

That way you can run the vmkfstools command through a SSH session on an ESXi node.

In this community there are a number of samples on how to do this.


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The vmkfstools was just an example..(I am very aware of plink Smiley Happy  I can't use it anyway because it requires the VM to be powerd off. i.e I need some other solution. Any ideas?

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vmkfstools -D lots of sed/awk and plink wil do the trick Smiley Happy

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