Comments on: Get-VMDiskUsage

By: jim kunysz

jim kunysz — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:21:59 +0000

i ran the script in our environment, over 60 esx hosts, and 1200 guests.
It spit out 6 rows of data. 6 datastores and 6 vm’s. wout have erroring on the linux guests have prevented data wrom being exported?

By: Erik Stottelaar

Erik Stottelaar — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:52:41 +0000

Hi Hugo,

Thanks a lot for the quick reponse. Your script is working fine now !

regards,

Erik

By: admin

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:49:44 +0000

Erik,
To make sure you run it against only Windows VM’s, replace this:
ForEach ($vm in (Get-VM))
With this:
ForEach ($vm in (Get-VM | Where {$_.Guest.OSFullName -match “Windows”}))

To restrict the script to a single cluster, use this instead:
ForEach ($vm in (Get-VM -Location (Get-Cluster “myCluster”)))

Hugo

By: Erik Stottelaar

Erik Stottelaar — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:49:52 +0000

Hi Hugo,

Thanks for publishing this script but can i skip my 2 linux vm’s because when i run the script it fails on my 2 linux vms at the wmi function. And is it possible to run it for a specified cluster in my vcenter?

thanks in advanced,

Erik

By: Chris Millian

Chris Millian — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:54:20 +0000

Hi Hugo,

Thank you for this wonderful script:-)
I have just one question.
When I run the scrip there are some lines mentioning in yellow:
VM is powered on
Read partition and disk information
Warning: NO MATCHES!
What does this mean?
Whe have over 300 VDIs and 40 Servers and the output gives me about 60 VDIs.
Is there a logical explanation for this?

Thanks in advanced

By: Molotsi

Molotsi — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:22:21 +0000

Hi Hugo

This is the error i am receiving.

ps1:57 char:53
+ $searchResult = $dsBrowser.SearchDatastoreSubFolders( <<<< $rootPath, $search
Spec)
Exception calling "SearchDatastoreSubFolders" with "2" argument(s): "Not initia
lized: boolean fileOwner"
At C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\vDiskUseSRD.
ps1:57 char:53
+ $searchResult = $dsBrowser.SearchDatastoreSubFolders( <<<< $rootPath, $search
Spec)
Exception calling "SearchDatastoreSubFolders" with "2" argument(s): "Not initia
lized: boolean fileOwner"
At C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere
PowerCLI\Scripts\vDiskUseSRD.

By: Sabbir

Sabbir — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:34:21 +0000

Hi Hugo

When I run your script in PowerCLI it ruturens most of the VMs information except few of them. The script stop running and no error shows like it hung.

Cheers
Sabbir

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By: Roland

Roland — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:42:59 +0000

Hi Hugo

When I run your script in PowerCLI it returns all VMs to be offline and therefore it will not output any information. But in fact all my VMs (almost all Windows machines) are running and have up to date VM tools. I’m running vSphere/vCenter 4.0 U1, what am I doing wrong?

Cheers
Roland

By: Ancksu

Ancksu — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:32:27 +0000

I solved the problem. In fact it was a naming problem.
By replacing $VMRef.HostName by $VMRef.VM and that work perfectly.
thanks

By: Ancksu

Ancksu — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:18:36 +0000

Thanks Hugo,
I did it but the problem is I only get 3 on 30 VM.
In the 30 VM one is a linux so normal, but all the other VM are Windows and are power on.
Do you have any idea ?