Reporting at a glance

[nitinsahi]

Hi All,

I need to pull out data from VI Client regarding my farm. I need the following fields in the report:

ESX Server name

Virtual machine name or/and IP Address

Operating system ( if possible)

I tried selecting the Datacenter but the Host Summary option under the reporting was gryed off. I got the administrator rights though. Your small help in this will be highly appreciable.

Thanks

~Nitin

[Troy_Clavell]

You are trying to export a list from virtual center, or your trying to extract performance reports?

If trying to export a list, keep in mind it will export based on your title bar and what is showing. If trying to extract a performance report on your entire infrastructure from within VC, it may time out.

you my want to look at something like Veeam Reporter.

hope this helps a bit.

[nitinsahi]

Hi Troy,

Thanks for the information, well I tried the export tab and it says "Export Event, List,Maps and Diagnostic Data" however I am looking for just the informational data like :

Total ESX names

And Corresponding VM's

With the operatinb system if possible.

I am searching for Veeam Reporter now.... Yea, I am using the VI Client 2.5 ,,

~Nitin

[Troy_Clavell]

Veeam Reporter is great, but after the trial, it costs.

http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-reporting.html

If looking for a free reporting tool, and if familiar with Powershell, you can easily get the information you are after.

you may want to browse this community

http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/windows_toolkit

[nitinsahi]

thanks for your help , I couls take the data out from VC only.

Nitin Sahi

[alanrenouf]

All of that information is easily available using the VI Toolkit, you can check the following forum for some code already written or post your own questions on there.

http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/windows_toolkit

Also, I have written a reporting script which extracts this sort of information straight into a word document which can be found here:

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Alan Renouf

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

UK

[TomHowarth]

that was an excelent link Allan very informatative thank you

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