error question

[mikeprobst]

I assume this error is my laptop running out of memory?

Get-View : 12/7/2010 3:39:12 PM Get-View 0649D347-80B8-4980-8912-A9C15638A760 Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemory

Exception' was thrown.

At C:\scripts\hostinfo.ps1:4 char:9

+ Get-View <<<< -ViewType HostSystem | % {

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ( , VimException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.Commands.DotNetInterop.GetVIView

Do I need to run my script from somewhere with more system memory available, or is there a way to split up the results? I have about 110 hosts in my virtual center. Here is my script if it helps:

Connect-viserver -Server VirtualCenterHost

$filelocation = "c:\scripts\result_host_info.csv"

$report = @()

Get-View -ViewType HostSystem | % {

$row = "" | select name, vendor, model, BIOSversion, BIOSrelease, memoryGB, CpuModel, CpuMhz, NumCpuPkgs, NumCpuCores, NumCpuThreads, NumNics, NumHBAs

$row.name = $_.name

$row.vendor = $_.Summary.Hardware.vendor

$row.model = $_.Summary.Hardware.model

$row.BIOSversion = $_.Hardware.Biosinfo.biosversion

$row.BIOSrelease = $_.Hardware.Biosinfo.releasedate

$row.memoryGB = ($_.Summary.Hardware.MemorySize/1GB)

$row.CpuModel = $_.Summary.Hardware.CpuModel

$row.cpuMhz = $_.Summary.Hardware.CPUMhz

$row.NumCpuPkgs = $_.Summary.Hardware.NumCpuPkgs

$row.NumCpuCores = $_.Summary.Hardware.NumCpuCores

$row.NumCpuThreads = $_.Summary.Hardware.NumCpuThreads

$row.NumNics = $_.Summary.Hardware.NumNics

$row.NumHBAs = $_.Summary.Hardware.NumHBAs

$report += $row

}

$report | export-csv $filelocation

[LucD]

PowerCLI isn't that memory hungry or you must really have little memory on that portable.

What PowerCLI version are you running ? Is it 4.1.1

Get-PowerCLIVersion

Did you run that script from the PowerCLI prompt ?

Or from a GUI ?

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[mikeprobst]

C:\scripts> get-powercliversion

PowerCLI Version

-

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VMware vSphere PowerCLI 4.0 U1 build 208462

I run it from the command line with .\hostinfo.ps1

[LucD]

You're running 2 builds behind. Perhaps you should consider an upgrade ?

Did you try seeing if the PowerCLI prompt and the script actually take that much memory ?

Use something like Process Explorer from Syinternals.

Have a look at Andrei's question in another thread, see

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[mikeprobst]

Are there other places I could pull the bios information from? I cut down what I was gathering to just this, and I can succesfully run against 2 of my 3 virutal cneter, the biggest one still gives me the memory error. When it completes, I only get the BIOS info from a few hosts, even though I can see it on the hardware tab in virutal center for all my hosts.

$filelocation = "c:\scripts\hostinfo\result_host_info.csv"

$report = @()

Get-View -ViewType HostSystem | % {

$row = "" | select name, vendor, model, BIOSversion, BIOSrelease

$row.name = $_.name

$row.vendor = $_.Summary.Hardware.vendor

$row.model = $_.Summary.Hardware.model

$row.BIOSversion = $_.Hardware.Biosinfo.biosversion

$row.BIOSrelease = $_.Hardware.Biosinfo.releasedate

write-host $row

$report += $row

}

#$report | export-csv $filelocation

THanks

[LucD]

The retrieval of the BIOS information depends on type of HW you have.

These properties are populated for some but not for others.

Btw, can you try the following ?

It should use a bit less memory than the other version.

$filelocation = "c:\result_host_info.csv"

Get-View -ViewType HostSystem | Select Name,
	@{N="Vendor";E={$_.Summary.Hardware.vendor}},
	@{N="Model";E={$_.Summary.Hardware.model}},
	@{N="BIOSversion";E={$_.Hardware.Biosinfo.biosversion}},
	@{N="BIOSrelease";E={$_.Hardware.Biosinfo.releasedate}} | export-csv $filelocation -NoTypeInformation

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[bradley4681]

I was trying to modify his original, I don't get the out of memory error here but it doesn't show the BIOs information.

$filelocation = "c:\scripts\result_host_info.csv"

$report = @()
Get-View -ViewType HostSystem | % {
 $row = "" | select name, vendor, model, BIOSversion, BIOSrelease
 $row.name = $_.name
 $row.vendor = $_.Summary.Hardware.vendor
 $row.model = $_.Summary.Hardware.model
 $row.BIOSversion = $_.Extensiondata.Hardware.Biosinfo.biosversion
 $row.BIOSrelease = $_.Extensiondata.Hardware.Biosinfo.releasedate
 
 $report = $row
 $report
}
$report | export-csv $filelocation

This pulls the vendor name and model number without errors but nothing for the bios version or date.

Cheers,

Bradley Sessions

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[mikeprobst]

the hardware is all fujitsu, and I have atleast 15 or so of the same model in one datacenter, but only 1 of them returned the BIOS information. This is confusing for me. Trying to run LucD modification now to see if that helps me with memory issue.