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Jtokash
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Reporting on host and guest data (management style)

Howdy folks,

I've been having a tough time putting information together for management folks. Lately, our environment has been undergoing a lot of change and we're struggling to quickly provide data on a given set of hosts, such as what vm's are running on them, and what vm's have a vmdk on which datastore (and how much its alotted would be fantastic).

I don't have the free cycles to develop some Powershell scripts to get this for me, so I'm curious if anyone else has some quick and dirty solutions? I can get the data in VC fine, but i need it in text file or excel file format so that the data can then be manipulated.

Thoughts? recommendations?

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There are several 3rd party products that provide this type of info, but I'm not sure of how much comes in a canned report. Check out VizionCore vCharter Pro, Veeam Reporter. There are other monitoring tools as well that can do similar dashboard like tools, but don't work directly with vmware yet.

-KjB

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This will get you started. I use this one to report on my vm's in a particular folder, and their cpu/memory/disk usage, and then report totals at the end.

Run it as '.\getFolderVM_Info.ps1 foldername outputfile.txt'

-KjB

P.S. Forgot that you'll need to do a 'get-vc vc_server_name' first, and then pick the folder you want to report, I use a cluster name or a resource name at a time.

Message was edited by: kjb007 : Added get-vc

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Jtokash
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So would it be safe to say there is no dashboard like 3rd party tools, appliances or applications that might give me this kind of data already? I appreciated the PS script, as that will definitely get me going. I was hoping to avoid developing scripts at this stage though. We have a seperate endeavour moving to provide some direct db feed information in that regard.

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There are several 3rd party products that provide this type of info, but I'm not sure of how much comes in a canned report. Check out VizionCore vCharter Pro, Veeam Reporter. There are other monitoring tools as well that can do similar dashboard like tools, but don't work directly with vmware yet.

-KjB

vExpert/VCP/VCAP vmwise.com / @vmwise -KjB
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