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Here’s a one-liner to show off to your colleagues. What do you do when somebody asks you for a printed overview of the top-twenty volumes on your virtual servers with the least free disk space?
You fire up your trusty Powershell of course! You type a single line of code, press enter and tell them to check the printer. How cool is that?
Get-VM | Where { $_.PowerState -eq “PoweredOn” } | Get-VMGuest | Select VmName -ExpandProperty Disks | Select VmName, Path, @{N=”MBFree”;E={[math]::Round((($_.FreeSpace)/1MB),2)}} | Sort MBFree | Select -First 20 | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-Printer
Very cool indeed!
See you next month!
Hugo
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its too good…
Select-Object : Cannot expand property “Disks” because it has nothing to expand
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+ Get-VM | Where { $_.PowerState -eq “PoweredOn” } | Get-VMGuest | Select <<<<
VmName -ExpandProperty Disks | Select VmName, Path, @{N=”MBFree”;E={[math]::Ro
und((($_.FreeSpace)/1MB),2)}} | Sort MBFree | Select -First 20 | Format-Table -
AutoSize
Nothing seems to be easier than seeing someone whom you can help but not helping.
I suggest we start giving it a try. Give love to the ones that need it.
God will appreciate it.
fyi, I featured this one-liner in another PowerWF video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLrRROKFcJE (PowerScripter Integration). Credit given.
Thanks again.
@xcud: Thanks! Cool stuff.
$disks = Get-VMGuest -VM | select VmName -ExpandProperty Disks
#it works well if a VM has only one vDisk
#If a VM has more than one disk, necessary this:
foreach($vmd in $disks){
$row = “” | select Name, capacity, FreeSpace
$row.name = $vmd.VmName
$row.FreeSpace = $vmd.FreeSpace
$row.capacity = $vmd.Capacity
}