Hi Everyone,
Our VM names typically end with a number (i.e. WEB1, WEB2, etc.) and our datastore names also end with a number. For application redundancy, we use datastores with names ending in even numbers for the storage needed by VMs with names ending in even numbers and datastores with names ending in odd numbers for the storage needed by VMs with names ending in odd numbers. In the physical world, the odd numbered datastores and hosts are physically separate from the even ones.
I've been trying to create a PowerCLI script to report on any mismatches (people do make mistakes) so that I can know if any VM has storage on the "wrong" kind of datastore (even VM on odd storage or vice-versa).
I'm really green with PowerShell and PowerCLI and suspect that there's a way to use the Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine but have been unsuccessful thus far.
In my environment most VMs use more than one datastore, so the script needs to check every datastore used by each VM for a mismatch and I want to run the report against my whole environment (single VC server).
If anyone knows of something similar that's already been done or can point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.
-Matt
