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harkamal
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Get-View - out of memory exception

Trying to execute the following command on a heavily utilized vCenter, fails with "Out of Memory" exception. It has 32Gb of RAM though. What can we go to fix this one....the same works fine on other vCenters.

Execute: $Script:hosts = Get-View -ViewType HostSystem -Filter @{"Runtime.ConnectionState"="connected"} -Property Name,Runtime,Hardware,Datastore,Config.FileSystemVolume.MountInfo,Config.StorageDevice.scsiLun,Config.StorageDevice.HostBusAdapter,Config.StorageDevice.MultipathInfo,Config.Product,Config.Network,Config.Option Get-View : 17/08/2011 09:35:49    Get-View    46D80EFB-1716-4E39-904E-BADF68D3D 2F8    Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown.

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LucD
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Did you check the memory consumption before and after this Get-View cmdlet ?

Just do

gps -id $pid

Perhaps you can try to lower the amount of memory in use before running the Get-View cmdlet with

[System.GC]::Collect()

But I also seem to see an important increase in the size of the WorkSpace during the execution of this Get-View statement.

Does a simple

Get-View -ViewType HostSystem

experience the same execption ?

How many hosts should it return ?


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harkamal
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Hi Luc,

Tried the garbage collector but it still fails. vCenter has 200+hosts.

Script is running as 32-bit process on 64-bit server with 32gb memory. (canot run as 64-bit for now, need to debug)

What else can i try ? I watched memory consumption, it never seem to cross few hundred megs.

Thanks for helping out.

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LucD
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I'm afraid I'm out of ideas.

I suggest the PowerCLI Dev Team should have a look.


Blog: lucd.info  Twitter: @LucD22  Co-author PowerCLI Reference

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