Powercli script for getting local disks from hosts

[OsburnM]

Anyone have any scripts out there on getting all hosts with local disks?  Gearing up to switch our hosts from SD to LocalDisk installs and need a script to identify which hosts don't still have a local disk.

Thanks!

[LucD]

Just to make sure, with "hosts", do you mean ESXI nodes?

[OsburnM]

Ha!  You sound like one of my network guys.  lol  Yeah, ESX Hosts.  They all have SD cards we've traditionally used and over the last couple years we've been slowly adding a local drive for logging/scratch.  I'm just wanting to try an see which ones are still missing the local drive that's not an SD.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

If you only want check if an ESXi was booted from SD or a local disk, you do something like in Solved: Re: Esxi OS running on Local Sata HDD or SD card - VMware Technology Network VMTN

To get a list of all local device, you could use the Get-EsxCli cmdlet and then do

$esxcli.storage.core.device.list.Invoke()

The returned devices have properties like IsLocal and IsUSB that should allow you to find the SD, if still present