Comparing the virtual machine RAM and DataStore FreeSpace

Hi all

I'm trying to find out where VM is having more RAM compared to the data store space.

I wrote the script for the same error below and is. More on is it possible I can print as VM name and name of data store after comparing the values. Please suggest.

$vm = get - vm

$vm | Select Name,MemoryMB,@{N='FreeSpaceMB'; E = {(Get-DataStore |)} Where {$_.} Name - eq ($vm. ({ExtensionData.Config.Files.VmPathName). Split('[]') [1]}). FreeSpaceMB}} | WHERE {$VM.memorymb - ge $_.} FreespaceMB}

PowerCLI C:\ > $vm | Select Name,MemoryMB,@{N='FreeSpaceMB'; E = {(Get-DataStore |)} Where {$_.} Name - eq ($vm. ({ExtensionData.Config.Files.VmPathName). Split('[]') [1]}). FreeSpaceMB}} | WHERE {$VM.memorymb - ge $_.} FreespaceMB}

Can't compare "4096" to "1621381 1621333". Error: "could not convert the.

Value "System.Object []" type "System.Object []" type "System.Decimal. »

At line: 1 char: 168

{{+... ceMB}} | WHERE {$VM.memorymb - ge $_.} FreespaceMB}

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo: InvalidOperation: (:)) [], RuntimeException)

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId: ComparisonFailure

Try like this

Get - VM |

Select Name, MemoryMB,

@{N = "FreeSpaceMB"; E = {(Get-Datastore-nom ($_.))} ExtensionData.Config.Files.VmPathName). Split('[]') [1] | Select - 1 first). FreeSpaceMB}} |

WHERE {$VM.memorymb - ge $_.} FreespaceMB}

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