Comments on: PowerCLI: Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) info v2: Analyze data with Excel

By: Ryan P

Ryan P — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:43:08 +0000

Is there a way I can also get the in-use size too?

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:37:16 +0000

This is a nice utility. Ran across 3 vCenters and about 24 ESX/ESXi Hosts in two physical datacenters in just a few seconds. Thanks.

By: Cnidus

Cnidus — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:02:52 +0000

Hi Arne,

I decided to get off my butt and start my own blog. The first post is my modified version of your script.

http://blog.cnidus.net/2010/10/25/dump-virtual-machine-info-as-xml-powershell/

If you have any feedback on either the script or my blog, I’d appreciate it.

Thanks,
Doug

By: Dump Virtual Machine Info as XML (powershell)

Dump Virtual Machine Info as XML (powershell) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:02:27 +0000

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By: Cnidus

Cnidus — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:40:22 +0000

Thanks for the script, with some pretty heavy wrapping and customization for my purposes, I’ve got it exporting object-oriented, per-VM XML instead of a flat CSV.

I can send you my version if you like.

Jeff: It shouldnt be too hard to add information on RDM info, I’ll see if I can work that out tomorrow.

-Doug (Cnidus)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:47:07 +0000

How hard would it be to add a column to tell if the disk is an RDM or VMDK

By: Zak

Zak — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:22:16 +0000

The output has just one vm, when I have 5. Its last one in foreach list.

Had another tinker around and ended up with this, it takes only a couple seconds to complete now.

$vmlist = Get-Content “h:\scripts\Vmlist2010.txt”
$vms=$vmlist|foreach { Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{“name” = “$_”}}

Now i want to add more objects, like mem/cpu etc. Will check the Vesi Editor. Is that the best place to find them?

Thanks again, you really got me on the right track!

By: afokkema

afokkema — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:06:12 +0000

The solution above was a quick and dirty solution. This solution is a lot faster:

$vms = Get-Content “X:\vms.txt”
foreach($name in $vms){
$vm = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{“Name” = $name}

Good luck!

By: Zak

Zak — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:16:15 +0000

That helped but didn’t work.
I modified it to this and its ok now.
$vms = get-content “h:\scripts\Vmlist.txt”|foreach-object {Get-VM $_ | Get-View}

A little slow, I’m thinking it would be quicker to do a Get-View once as you do before, and then operate the rest of the script if the name exists in the list.

Thanks lot for help nevertheless.

By: afokkema

afokkema — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:28:03 +0000

Change the line $vms = Get-View Viewtype……. to

$vms = get-content D:\vms.txt
foreach($i in $vms){
$vm = Get-VM $i | Get-View

vms.txt will look like this:

vm1
vm2
vm3
etc.

Good luck