Script to retrive total ports and available ports

[alexander19]

Hello,

I would like to get from vSphere Distributed Switch total ports and available ports. I have tried few ways to get this informations, but i could not find a way to accomplish this. Is any chance to create this kind of script?

Thanks!

[LucD]

Have a look at Script to get DVportgroup or Standardswtich portgroup Name, Vlan id, total ports and available ports

[alexander19]

I looked on that script but for my project I need total number from that Vswitch if you know what i mean.

[LucD]

Ok, got it (I think).
Try like this

Get-VDSwitch |

Select Name,

    @{N='Total Ports';E={$_.NumPorts}},

    @{N='Available Ports';E={

        $vds = $_

        $hPorts = $vds.ExtensionData.Config.Host.UplinkPortKey.Count

        $vPorts = (Get-View -Id $vds.ExtensionData.Summary.Vm | %{

                    $_.Config.Hardware.Device |

                    where{$_.Backing -and

                      $_.Backing.GetType().Name -match "distributed" -and

                      $_.Backing.Port.SwitchUuid -eq $vds.ExtensionData.Uuid}}).Count

        $vds.NumPorts - $hPorts - $vPorts

    }}

[alexander19]

I need some packeg or something like that because I get this errror:

Get-VDSwitch : The term 'Get-VDSwitch' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a

path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

[LucD]

Which PowerCLI version are you running?

Do a Get-PowerCLIVersion

If you can upgrade to the latest version, which is modules only, you can just execute the following line once before running the script.

Get-Module -Name VMware* -ListAvailable | Import-Module

[alexander19]

PowerCLI Version

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   VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.8 Release 1 build 2057893

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Snapin Versions

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   VMWare AutoDeploy PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1983942

   VMWare ImageBuilder PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1983942

   VMware License PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1265954

   VMware Storage PowerCLI Component 5.8 build 2057894

   VMware VDS PowerCLI Component 5.8 build 2031581

   VMware vSphere PowerCLI Component 5.8 build 2031581

[LucD]

Is there a specific reason you're on that older release?

Or can you upgrade to the latest version?

[alexander19]

unfortunately i need to kep this version because is a productive enviroment and i cannot upgrade to last version because currently we have a lot of script running over this version, so it will take a lot of work and time if i will upgrade to last version

[LucD]

I see.

In that case try replacing the Get-VDSwitch cmdlet by

Get-VirtualSwitch -Distributed

[alexander19]

Just perfect. Work as  was expected. Thank you very much!