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That is one usefull script, nice one.

Very nice! Bookmarked, downloaded and printed! Thanks.

I had problems running your script:

PS C:\iso\powershell> ./compare-clusters.ps1
There were one or more problems with the server certificate:

* A certification chain processed correctly, but terminated in a root certificate which isn’t trust
d by the trust provider.

* A required certificate is not within its validity period.

* The certificate’s CN name does not match the passed value.

Get-View : The argument cannot be null or empty.
At C:\iso\powershell\compare-clusters.ps1:23 char:36
+ $VMHostViews = $VMHosts | Get-View <<<< | Sort Name
Get-Datastore : The argument cannot be null or empty.
At C:\iso\powershell\compare-clusters.ps1:26 char:37
+ $Datastores = Get-Datastore -VMHost <<<< $VMHosts
Get-Datastore : The argument cannot be null or empty.
At C:\iso\powershell\compare-clusters.ps1:27 char:82
+ $DSdiffs = $VMHosts | ForEach {Compare-Object $Datastores (Get-Datastore -VMHost <<<< $_) -S
yncWindow 1000} | ForEach {$_.InputObject} | Sort Name | Select Name -Unique
Compare-Object : Cannot bind argument to parameter ‘ReferenceObject’ because it is null.
At C:\iso\powershell\compare-clusters.ps1:48 char:30
+ $LUNdiffs += Compare-Object <<<< $LUNs $HostLUNs -SyncWindow 1000 | ForEach {$_.InputObj
ect}
Get-VirtualPortGroup : The argument cannot be null or empty.
At C:\iso\powershell\compare-clusters.ps1:73 char:44
+ $PortGroups = Get-VirtualPortGroup -VMHost <<<< $VMHosts | ForEach {$_.Name} | Select -Uniqu
e
Get-VirtualPortGroup : The argument cannot be null or empty.
At C:\iso\powershell\compare-clusters.ps1:77 char:42
+ $HostPGs = Get-VirtualPortGroup -VMHost <<<< $VMHost | ForEach {$_.Name} | Select -Uniqu
e
Compare-Object : Cannot bind argument to parameter ‘ReferenceObject’ because it is null.
At C:\iso\powershell\compare-clusters.ps1:78 char:29
+ $PGdiffs += Compare-Object <<<< $PortGroups $HostPGs -SyncWindow 1000 | ForEach {$_.Inpu
tObject}

Hey thanks for the great script. I also get a bunch errors similar to the one posted above. For the most part the script seems to run and produce a report its been very helpful in identifying invalid configurations.

As for possible debugging information that may help with the errors.

VC is 2.5 Update 3 on Win2k3 Server
Host are mostly 3.01
Toolkit Version is 1.0 build 113525

Am not sure if your open to feed back to continue to improve the script or if you released it to the community and for them to have at it.

If so here is my feedback.

Since its a cluster audit it would be nice not to see the local disk. Since I’ve seen most environments local label vary from host to host usually something along the lines with the hostname this usually helps to ensure that nobody puts a VM on the Local host.

Also I glance thru the script and I’m not sure are you checking for VLAN tags. Are you ? I’ve seen many issues because somebody fat fingered a VLAN tag. So a VM will move but not respond to any pings. Or even the VMotion port group wont move the VM because of the VLAN tag.

Thanks again

How do I get rid of this annoying output when I run the powershell scripts?

There were one or more problems with the server certificate:

* A certification chain processed correctly, but terminated in a root certificat
e which isn’t trusted by the trust provider.

Thanks for lots of great scripts. Looking for VCB ones but liked what I found anyway. My script works some time but other times the snapshot times out. Wanted your clear connection script to see if that was my issue, wasn’t. Your list disks script will help also.

This is probably an open door, but how do I import a certificate?

Hi Hugo,

I was trying to do exactly as Daniel requested and managed to fudge something together. Would appreciate it if you would take the time to have a look and see how it could be improved as i think the method I came up with to compare VLANS works but is a little convoluted.

let me know if you have the time or inclination to take a look and i’ll post the script.

@Paul
Hi Paul,
Sure I’d like to check what you did. Drop me an email at: contact at peetersonline nl
Hugo

Just ran this script and it works fine but:
- you might want to filter the local luns (vmhba0:0:0) cause they usually have a different name on every single host in a cluster
- the script throws an error when a cluster doesn’t contain hosts

I was wondering if Paul had a workable solution or addition for auditing the port group VLANs. I love the script above but really need to audit the por group VLANs as well.

agree with Duncan, GREAT script but is there an easy way to filter out local luns?

Hi Guys,

Got the same issue, its reporting my local drives as datastores and reporting a mismatch on the clusters.

Any chance of looking into this? Great work otherwise… love it!