Looking for a Powercli script for consolidate the snapshot.

[pilgrimfly]

Hi All,

Thanks in advance ..!

how to check if a particular  virtual machines that need disk consolidation. 

The below command  I am using is showing  entire VM list in VC   Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.Extensiondata.Runtime.ConsolidationNeeded}

also let me know how to consolidate the set of VMs which is provided as an input from txt file.

Get-VM |

Where-Object {$_.Extensiondata.Runtime.ConsolidationNeeded} |

ForEach-Object {

  $_.ExtensionData.ConsolidateVMDisks()

}

[LucD]

Are you saying that

Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.Extensiondata.Runtime.ConsolidationNeeded}

also shows you VMs that do not need consolidation?

If the vmnames come from a .txt file, you could do

Get-VM -Name (Get-Content -Path vmnames.txt) | Where-Object {$_.Extensiondata.Runtime.ConsolidationNeeded} | %{

    $_.ExtensionData.ConsolidateVMDisks()

}

[pilgrimfly]

Thanks for your reply..!

Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.Extensiondata.Runtime.ConsolidationNeeded}

When I connect to vCenter and run this command it is showing all the VMs which required disk consolidation.

I am looking for a command where I need to check the a particular VM required disk consolidation.

[LucD]

That's what the 2nd code in my previous reply is doing.

The .txt file contains the vm names, one per line, that you want to check.

[pilgrimfly]

Thanks for your prompt reply..!

To check  whether consolidation required I am using below command

Get-VM -Name (Get-Content -Path d:\vmnames.txt) | Where-Object {$_.Extensiondata.Runtime.ConsolidationNeeded}

in vmnames.txt file I added two VMs names

VMtest1

VMtest2

But the not getting any result

when checking from GIU I can able to see consolidation tab enabled.

[LucD]

Let's analyse step by step.

Does this return all the lines you placed in the .txt file?

Get-Content -Path d:\vmnames.txt

Does this return an object for each VM name you placed in the .txt file?

Get-VM -Name (Get-Content -Path d:\vmnames.txt)