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list disks rdm with powershell

Josito — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:17:00 GMT

Hello ,

i like how lists disk rdm of a vm .Command get-hardisk give me location vmdk , capacity , but i want more informatation disks RDMs

Por example , i want to list imformation like vmhba 1:0:9:0 , SCSI (2:1) , etc for each disk .

Someone can gime some help

Thanks

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

LucD — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:16:57 GMT

This gives the devicename of each RDM disk for each vm.

$report = @()
$vms = Get-VM | Get-View
foreach($vm in $vms){
  foreach($dev in $vm.Config.Hardware.Device){
    if(($dev.gettype()).Name -eq "VirtualDisk"){
	  if($dev.Backing.CompatibilityMode -eq "physicalMode"){
	    $row = "" | select VMName, HDDeviceName, HDFileName
          $row.VMName = $vm.Name
	    $row.HDDeviceName = $dev.Backing.DeviceName
	    $row.HDFileName = $dev.Backing.FileName
	    $report += $row
	  }
	}
  }
}
$report

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

munizaba — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:32:27 GMT

Hi LucD,

Can you please check attached Script since is not producing any result.

Regards,

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

LucD — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:01:24 GMT

Could it be that there are no raw disks ?

Perhaps try without the test for "physicalMode".

$report = @() 
$vms = Get-VM | Get-View 
foreach($vm in $vms) {
			foreach($dev in $vm.Config.Hardware.Device)	{
				if(($dev.gettype()).Name -eq "VirtualDisk")	{ 
#					if($dev.Backing.CompatibilityMode -eq "physicalMode"){ 
						$row = "" | select VMName, HDDeviceName, HDFileName 
						$row.VMName = $vm.Name 
						$row.HDDeviceName = $dev.Backing.DeviceName 
						$row.HDFileName = $dev.Backing.FileName 
							$report += $row 
					} 	
#				} 
			} 
} 
$report

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

munizaba — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:27:27 GMT

Thanks mate, is working now:

$report = @()

$vms = Get-VM | Get-View

foreach($vm in $vms) {

foreach($dev in $vm.Config.Hardware.Device) {

if(($dev.gettype()).Name -eq "VirtualDisk") {

$row = "" | select VMName, HDDeviceName, HDFileName

$row.VMName = $vm.Name

$row.HDDeviceName = $dev.Backing.DeviceName

$row.HDFileName = $dev.Backing.FileName

$report += $row

}

$report

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

LucD — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:23:06 GMT

Just came to realise that RDMs come in 2 flavours, physical and virtual.

Since I only tested for physical and your RDMs are probably in virtual compatibility mode they didn't show.

This script should only show RDMs but for both compatibility modes

$report = @()
$vms = Get-VM | Get-View
foreach($vm in $vms){
  foreach($dev in $vm.Config.Hardware.Device){
    if(($dev.gettype()).Name -eq "VirtualDisk"){
	  if(($dev.Backing.CompatibilityMode -eq "physicalMode") -or 
	     ($dev.Backing.CompatibilityMode -eq "virtualMode")){
	    $row = "" | select VMName, HDDeviceName, HDFileName, HDMode
          $row.VMName = $vm.Name
	    $row.HDDeviceName = $dev.Backing.DeviceName
	    $row.HDFileName = $dev.Backing.FileName
	    $row.HDMode = $dev.Backing.CompatibilityMode
	    $report += $row
	  }
	}
  }
}
$report

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

brekus — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:43:41 GMT

This script is great. Just as an FYI, instead of looking for disks that are virtual or physical mode, I looked for disks that were not equal to flat.

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

gboskin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:46:42 GMT

Hi all ....

I was wondering how to add the RDM size to this table ??

Kind regards

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

LucD — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:04:59 GMT

The answer is in

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

emmar — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:04:53 GMT

Hi,

This script is great is there a way to get it to output what ESX host the VMs are on?? Is there a property for the host within the $vm object??? something like $vm.Host??

Thanks

Emma

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

LucD — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:20:07 GMT

Yes, the VirtualMachine object contains, under the Runtime.Host property, a MoRef to the host on which the VM is running or assigned.

The script could then be something like this:

$report = @()
$vms = Get-VM  | Get-View
foreach($vm in $vms){
  foreach($dev in $vm.Config.Hardware.Device){
    if(($dev.gettype()).Name -eq "VirtualDisk"){
	  if(($dev.Backing.CompatibilityMode -eq "physicalMode") -or 
	     ($dev.Backing.CompatibilityMode -eq "virtualMode")){
	    $row = "" | select VMName, VMHost, HDDeviceName, HDFileName, HDMode, HDsize
          $row.VMName = $vm.Name
	    $row.VMHost = (Get-View $vm.Runtime.Host).Name
	    $row.HDDeviceName = $dev.Backing.DeviceName
	    $row.HDFileName = $dev.Backing.FileName
	    $row.HDMode = $dev.Backing.CompatibilityMode
           $row.HDSize = $dev.CapacityInKB
	    $report += $row
	  }
	}
  }
}
$report

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

emmar — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:15:04 GMT

Thanks LucD

Thats great! And a useful link so hopefully i can work more out for myself!

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

AlbertWT — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:00:08 GMT

thanks man, this is such a useful script !

Kind Regards,

AWT

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

TCronin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:21:53 GMT

Does anyone know how to add the device name to the output? For example, instead of just the vmhba notitation, can you also get something like this:

EMC Fibre Channel Disk (naa.60060480000190100744533031393736)

Thanks!

Tom Cronin, VCP, VMware vExpert 2009 - Co-Leader Buffalo, NY VMUG

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

LucD — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:51:52 GMT

I suspect you are after the DisplayName as it's called in the SDK Reference.

Try this script, the DisplayName has been added.

$report = @()
$vms = Get-VM | Get-View
foreach($vm in $vms){
	foreach($dev in $vm.Config.Hardware.Device){
		if(($dev.gettype()).Name -eq "VirtualDisk"){
			if(($dev.Backing.CompatibilityMode -eq "physicalMode") -or 
			($dev.Backing.CompatibilityMode -eq "virtualMode")){
				$row = "" | select VMName, VMHost, HDDeviceName, HDFileName, HDMode, HDsize, HDDisplayName
				$row.VMName = $vm.Name
				$esx = Get-View $vm.Runtime.Host
				$row.VMHost = ($esx).Name
				$row.HDDeviceName = $dev.Backing.DeviceName
				$row.HDFileName = $dev.Backing.FileName
				$row.HDMode = $dev.Backing.CompatibilityMode
				$row.HDSize = $dev.CapacityInKB
				$row.HDDisplayName = ($esx.Config.StorageDevice.ScsiLun | where {$_.Uuid -eq $dev.Backing.LunUuid}).DisplayName
				$report += $row
			}
		}
	}
}
$report

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

jsenon — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:20:50 GMT

Thanks LucD.

Is it possible to add Runtime Name and Lun Name in the display of your script ?

(This data is available in VCenter 4, on manage Path of the RDM Disk)

Thanks in advance,

Regads,

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

jsenon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:29:09 GMT

Hi,

nobody have an idea ?

Thanks.

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

zMarkz — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:08:24 GMT

This script is very helpful. I have trying to figure out how to add 'Runtime Name:' and 'Adpater:' information to this report.

Any thoughts on how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

-Mark

fc.200000e08b9bad3f:210000e08b9bad3f-fc.50060160c1e02ae9:5006016141e02ae9-naa.60060160efe01900c883b8dee114de11

Runtime Name: vmhba1:C0:T0:L22

Device: naa.60060160efe01900c883b8dee114de11

Device Display Name: DGC Fibre Channel Disk (naa.60060160efe01900c883b8dee114de11)

Adapter: vmhba1 Channel: 0 Target: 0 LUN: 22

Adapter Identifier: fc.200000e08b9bad3f:210000e08b9bad3f

Target Identifier: fc.50060160c1e02ae9:5006016141e02ae9

Plugin: NMP

State: active

Transport: fc

Adapter Transport Details: WWNN: 20:00:00:e0:8b:9b:ad:3f WWPN: 21:00:00:e0:8b:9b:ad:3f

Target Transport Details: WWNN: 50:06:01:60:c1:e0:2a:e9 WWPN: 50:06:01:61:41:e0:2a:e9

Re: list disks rdm with powershell

Michelle_Laveri — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:00:03 GMT

Handy script. Did anyone manage to work out how to report lun number and vmhba path...

The script currently gives:

VMName : ctx01

VMHost : esx1.corp.com

HDDeviceName : vml.020000000060a9800050334c77465a5256777954344c554e202020

HDFileName : ctx01/ctx01_1.vmdk

HDMode : physicalMode

HDsize : 10485760

HDDisplayName : NETAPP Fibre Channel Disk (naa.60a9800050334c77465a525677795434)

But I was hoping to see -

LUNnumber : 102

VMhbapath: vmhba1:0:102

Any ideas?

Regards

Mike Laverick

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http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk

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Re: list disks rdm with powershell

lamw — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:30:40 GMT

This should be pretty trivial by pulling out deviceName property, I'm sure Luc or Alan could help with pulling that out as well.

Here is a vSphere SDK for Perl script that utilizes this property to displays the vmhba path and you can extract the LUN # from that as well.

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