Orphaned VMKDs

[SteveR77]

I have been playing with this various Orphaned VMKD scripts that I could find and came across the Spring Cleaning one by Luc D.

I only have a couple issue with what I have been attempting to resolve.   I need to exclude the .snapshot directory from what is returned and

I need to know is there a way to reslove the datastore VMDK back to a specific host.

Thank you so much for your assistance and make it a great day.

[LucD]

In my script there is already a test to exclude the cos.vmdk and esxconsole.vmdk files.

You could add a similar test to exclude the .snapin folders.

Let me know if you need help with that ?

You want to find back the host, does this mean that the datastore(s) are not shared between ESX(i) hosts ?

[SteveR77]

Luc D,

As always thank you for what you add.   I just needed to get the jumble of coding languages straight in my head.   I am testing adding a -or option to eliminate the .snapin folders.

I am fairly certain that the datastore(s) are shared between the ESXi hosts but I will validate this just in case there are any exceptions.

Thank you once again for your wealth of knowledge.

[SteveR77]

The script is working but I am not excluding the .snapshot path as I excpected to.

Is this because I need to and the if statements?

if (-not ($pathAsString.toLower().contains("-ctk.vmdk"))) {

if (-not ($pathAsString.toLower().contains(".snapshot")))

{

[LucD]

I'm not sure how you got the content of the $pathAsString variable, but try the test like this

if ($pathAsString -notmatch "-ctk.vmdk" -and $pathAsString -notmatch ".snapshot") {

There is no need to convert to lowercase, this is case-insentive

[SteveR77]

For some reason the .snapshot/ path is not being eliminated -

-ProxyPolicy Noproxy

# Also detects VMDKs from machines that need snapshot consolidation (from differentials that exist but are not part of the tree).

# Author: HJA van Bokhoven

# Modifications: LucD

= @()

$arrUsedDisks = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | % {$_.Layout} | % {$_.Disk} | % {$_.DiskFile}

$arrDS = Get-Datastore | Sort-Object -property Name

foreach ($strDatastore in $arrDS) {

Write-Output "$($strDatastore.Name) Orphaned Disks:"

$ds = Get-Datastore -Name $strDatastore.Name | % {Get-View $_.Id}

$fileQueryFlags = New-Object VMware.Vim.FileQueryFlags

$fileQueryFlags.FileSize = $true

$fileQueryFlags.FileType = $true

$fileQueryFlags.Modification = $true

$searchSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostDatastoreBrowserSearchSpec

$searchSpec.details = $fileQueryFlags

$searchSpec.matchPattern = "*.vmdk"

$searchSpec.sortFoldersFirst = $true

$dsBrowser = Get-View $ds.browser

$rootPath = "[" + $ds.Name + "]"

$searchResult = $dsBrowser.SearchDatastoreSubFolders($rootPath, $searchSpec)

foreach ($folder in $searchResult)

foreach ($fileResult in $folder.File)

if ($fileResult.Path)

$pathAsString = out-string -InputObject $FileResult.Path

if (-not ($arrUsedDisks -contains ($folder.FolderPath + $fileResult.Path))){

# Changed Black Tracking creates ctk.vmdk files that are not referenced in the VMX.  This prevents them from showing as false positives.

if ($pathAsString -notmatch "-ctk.vmdk" -and $pathAsString -notmatch "snapshot") {

$row = "" | Select DS, Path, File, Size, ModDate

$row.DS = $strDatastore.Name

$row.Path = $folder.FolderPath

$row.File = $fileResult.Path

$row.Size = $fileResult.FileSize

$row.ModDate = $fileResult.Modification

$report += $row

$report | Export-Csv C:\Scripts\OrphanedVMDKs.csv

Write-Output "$($row.Path)$($row.File)"