Comments on: Add RDM Size info to VI Client using Powershell

By: David

David — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:23:27 +0000

Hi Hugo,

Nice script, helps me a lot for my disk usage reports.

I don’t know if you do a script on demand ;-), but I’m looking for a PS script that puts the foldername where my VM is situated as an attribute.

The reason why I need this is because I will recreate my clusters and otherwise I will lose all my foldernames where Ive’ put them.

The logic we use is
Cluster => Foldername => vm
or
Cluster => Foldername => Subfolder => vm

Hope you know an easy way to achieve this.

Cheers,

David

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:59:30 +0000

Hello,
It’s doesn’t work for me. The return size for the RDM disk is not right… do you have this problem ?

Thanks in advance

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Anonymous — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:25:17 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:09:07 +0000

@Jeffrey Snover
Hey Jeffrey,
Thanks!
I do tend to use that technique when that part of the script is inside a loop, so that I don’t have to Clear-Variable the extra variable. At other times, when the first line needs an additional pipe to Where-Object, I often keep them on two separate lines for readability.
I write my scripts mostly off the top of my head, so that’s probably why I sometimes create to much variables. I need to look them over more often when they are done to consolidate some of the clutter into single lines.
Thanks for the tip! And I must say it’s an honor to have you on my blog ;)
Hugo

By: Jeffrey Snover

Jeffrey Snover — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:38:47 +0000

Howdy Hugo!

That is a nice readable script. I thought I would make one suggestion that I’ve started doing more and more with my scripts. You have the following:

$VMs = Get-VM
ForEach ($VM in $VMs)

Lately I’ve been collapsing that into a single line because I think it is more readable/maintainable (and I don’t have to think up a good variable name!). It would be:

ForEach ($VM in Get-VM)

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
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