Comments on: Get VMware Disk Usage with Powershell

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:13:15 +0000

Is there a way to exclude some servers? Because Linux servers will get an error.

By: tulk

tulk — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:31:46 +0000

can someone please post the full script, i cant get it to work

By: ThomasL

ThomasL — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:33:43 +0000

I get the same thing as Molotsi:
============================= ============================= Total DS Free: Total DS Size: Average DS Free Percentage: Average Disk Free Percentage:

Is this because I tried to add the DiskFileSizeGB object you mentioned in the comments in the Script Repository post? Your script is what I’m looking for, however, without the DiskFileSizeGB object, it doesn’t give what I need.. Thanks in advance!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:49:58 +0000

You need to install powerCLI and either run it from the powerCLI console or add the snapin to you powershell session.

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By: Don

Don — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:28:58 +0000

I’m getting errors like:
The term ‘Connect-VIServer’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function
, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a pat
h was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\getdiskspace.ps1:10 char:23
+ $VC = Connect-VIServer <<<< $VCServer
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Connect-VIServer:String) [], Co
mmandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:01:42 +0000

Hey Man, very good script, thx for sharing!!

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:49:27 +0000

I also get a bunch of false positives (VM Powered Off) looking through the code now.

Running vCenter 4.1.0 Build 345043, and VMware vSphere PowerCLI 4.1 U1 build 332441

By: Molotsi

Molotsi — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:03:39 +0000

I do not get results.

this is the only output i receive.

=============================
=============================
Total DS Free:
Total DS Size:
Average DS Free Percentage:
Average Disk Free Percentage:

Please help.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:10:46 +0000

One possible in one scenario: if you are certain you never use more than one SCSI Controller in a vm. Then you can remove the checking of the SCSI Bus ID:

#REPLACE
$DiskMatch = $Disks | ?{($_.SCSIPort - 1) -eq $VMRef.SCSIController -and $_.SCSITargetID -eq $VMRef.SCSITarget}
#WITH
$DiskMatch = $Disks | ?{$_.SCSITargetID -eq $VMRef.SCSITarget}

Hugo

By: morpheus

morpheus — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:39:51 +0000

Dear Hugo,

I did a test on our big cluster now. I see for some VMs WMI lists the IDs as 2:0, 2:1 and 2:2 but for others it lists the IDs as 1:0, 1:1 and 1:2. The strange thing is these VMs (w2k8R2) were installed with the same image. What could I do to get results from all VMs no matter if their IDs are 1 or 2? Thanks a lot for your help!