Examples from a Newb - 1

[tonygent]

I'm new to this whole PS thingy, but have come up with a few exmples that may help others along. Please feel free to pick faut, make suggestions, and please talk to me like a 10 year old so I understand 🐵

TG

1. Purpose : List all Disks that exist in a specific datastore by VM

#Main

$strVC = ""

Connect-VIServer $strVC

$objUsedDisks = Get-VM | Get-HardDisk | where-object {$_.filename -like "SAN_vmdata"}

write-host "----

---

"

Foreach ($strDisk in $objUsedDisks )

{

write-host $Strdisk.filename " " $strdisk.capacityKB " " $strdisk.name

}

Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$False

1. Purpose : List Additional Disks (non OS) on all Datastores

#Main

$strVC = ""

Connect-VIServer $strVC

1. create an array holding all the datastore objects.

$arrDS = Get-Datastore

#iterate through the avaiable datastores looking for files.

Foreach ($strDatastore in $arrDS)

{

#Create a string with the Datastore Name and print it out.

$strDatastoreName = $strDatastore.name

Write-Host $strDatastoreName

1. create a Datastore 'View' object for the DS beging queried.

$ds = Get-Datastore -Name $strDatastoreName | %{Get-View $_.Id}

#Create a fileQuery object to define what sort of query is required.

$fileQueryFlags = New-Object VMware.Vim.FileQueryFlags

$fileQueryFlags.FileSize = $true

$fileQueryFlags.FileType = $true

$fileQueryFlags.Modification = $true

1. create a new search object to browse the datastore, pass it the query flag and the datastore view.

$searchSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostDatastoreBrowserSearchSpec

$searchSpec.details = $fileQueryFlags

$searchSpec.sortFoldersFirst = $true

$dsBrowser = Get-View $ds.browser

$rootPath = "[http://"$ds.summary.Name"|http://"$ds.summary.Name"]"

1. read the results from the query into a search object

$searchResult = $dsBrowser.SearchDatastoreSubFolders($rootPath, $searchSpec)

#$myCol = @()

1. from the search object - itterate through the folders

foreach ($folder in $searchResult)

{

1. for each folder - itterate through the files.

foreach ($fileResult in $folder.File)

{

#create an object called file with Name and Full Path properties

$file = "" | select Name, FullPath

#Populate the Name and Full Path propeties with vaules from the files.

$file.Name = $fileResult.Path

$file.fullPath = $folder.folderpath

1. if the file Name property has .vmdk in it - then it's a disk so....

IF ($file.name -like "*_?.vmdk")

{

1. combine the Name and Full Path properties into a string and print.

$combinedpath = $file.fullpath + $file.name

write-host "Combined Path = : $combinedpath"

}

}

}

}

Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$False