PowerCLI question

[GreenIT]

Hello,

I am looking to get the following information using PowerCLI 4.1 at the datacenter level (Vsphere 4)

1. Total available and used CPU

2. Total available and used RAM

3. The date when the VM was last accessed.

Thanks in advance!

[LucD]

Point 1 and 2 is no problem, but point 3 is something you would need to look for inside the OS running on the guest.

Unless you mean powered on by access ?

[GreenIT]

We end up creating VM's which the requestor never uses. So basically looking at the usage.  

[LucD]

You could look at CPU usage, but that is in my opinion not a good indicator.

Are these VMs powered on all the time (even if they are not used) ?

How do your users access these VMs ? Do they connect via the vSphere client console ? Or do they do a RDP session ?

Is there a Windows OS running on these VMs ? Can you do WMI calls to the OS in the guest ?

[GreenIT]

Yes these VM's are always powered on  even if they are not used.

Users connect through RDP and putty as we have both windows and and linux guests.

For windows we can do a WMI call.