get-snapshot slow on PowerCLI 4.0u1

[BigHug]

Hi, all:

Get-snapshot seems to be much slower on 4.0u1 than on 4.0. A simple "get-vm|get-snapshot" finishes in 6 seconds on 4.0. However, it will take 380 seconds on 4.0u1. My vcenter and hosts are all on 4.0 u1.Does any one experience the same issue? Thanks.

[alanrenouf]

I also get this, I have raised it with Carter and team and they are working on it, hopefully they will update us soon.

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Alan Renouf

[BigHug]

Great! Thanks for your information, Alan.

[RS_1]

Here is a script to list snapshot very fast :

param($VM)

if ($VM) {$rootsnap = $VM|%{Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{"Name" = $_}}|%{$_.Snapshot.RootSnapshotList}}

else

{$rootsnap = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine |%{$_.Snapshot.RootSnapshotList}}

$snaplist = @()

$snaplist += $rootsnap

function get-snapshotlegacy ($rootsnap){

foreach ($snap in ($rootsnap|%{$_.ChildSnapshotList})){

$snap

if ((($snap|%{$_.ChildSnapshotList})|Measure-Object).count -gt 0){

get-snapshotlegacy $snap

}

}

}

$snaplist += get-snapshotlegacy $rootsnap

$snaplist

Explained here : http://www.hypervisor.fr/?p=1907

I hope it will help waiting a new cmdlet

[yboychev]

Hi all, the slowness of Get-Snapshot is a problem we have addressed within PowerCLI 4.1 release. Our tests show that we have done an improvement of over 75% regarding performance. Enjoy it!

Yavor,

PowerCLI team

[AlbertWT]

Thanks for the explanation man, it works fast now after I updated myself into 4.1

Kind Regards,

AWT