Get-hard drive - Thin provisioning

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• Get-hard drives - storage drives data store migrate between data warehouses

  Hi all

  
  

  Our current storage configuration with specially designed split-role of the bases of data storages (OS, LOG SQL, SQL DATA, APP, Exchange roles, etc.)  I do a storage store on my VMware Infrastructure and hoped to target only the disks of virtual machines that are on any data store and migrate them to another.  Rather new to PowerCli if you're wondering why the bellows of the command does not work and the reports that the file is locked.
  

  
  

  Get-hard drive - data store 'Datastore01 ' | Moving-hard drive - data store Datastore02

  If the machine virtual itself is made aware of the command?  Would I have to enumarte the virtual machines on the first data store and then target discs that everyone has and redirect it to the hard disk Move command?

  Thanks in advance

  Yes, you are banging in the sequence of commands trying to move a file on the data store without referencing the virtual machine. According to the State of the virtual machine (lit or not) of different things happen

  • VM power off - the disc is moved and the virtual machine is broken (the vmx file will always point to the original location for the HD that is no longer there)
  • Virtual MACHINE power - the disk is locked, so it cannot be moved (the error you have seen)

  Another thing to keep in mind is that the configuration of the VM is also on a data store, so if you want to move the entire virtual machine you can just move the hard drives

  If all the virtual machines on a data store have all their HDs on this data store then you can do something like

  Get - VM - data store 'Datastore01 ' | Move-VM - data store "Datastore02".

  To access the VM configuration, but also his records. If you have virtual machines where the disks into a single virtual machine, then you will have a little more work to do to sort the records that must be moved

  Get - VM - data store 'Datastore01 ' | Get-hard drive | Where-Object {$_.} FileName.Contains ("[Datastore01]")} | Moving-hard drive - data store "Datastore02".

  This is all virtual machines with a component (hard drive or configuration) on Datastore1, and then for each VM is all hard disks that are on Datastore01 and the Datastore02

• Get-hard drive | Measure-Object > list of objects

  I want to every amount of real "disk" 1 objects in the list / #. Rather than just the TOTAL SUM:

  Where does one would add or modify this script so it would list every-(VM-Name) of the object and the amount configured by VM?

  
  Thank you.. Please

  vSphere PowerCLI] C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI > Get -.
  VM 'xxx_name ' | Get-hard drive | where {$_.} Name - eq 'Disk 1'} | Measure-object - P
  CapacityKB-sum property. Select-Object amount

  Sum
  ---
  1317011456

  Try something like this

  Get-VM "xxx_name" |
  Select Name,
  @{N="HD1 Capacity";E={Get-HardDisk -VM $_ -Name "Hard disk 1" | Select -ExpandProperty CapacityKB}}
  

• Drive Thin provisioning of support in the free version of ESXi 4.1

  Hello!

  Drive thin provisioning is supported in the free version of ESXi 4.1?

  Concerning

  YES

• Get-hard drive on a single line of csv

  Hello

  
  I have to do a migration to a new san.

  I want to be able to move everyting off the old san to the new, but I also need to separate files vmdk to different LUNS.
  --------------
  ex:

  (VM1 (vmxfiles, Hd1, hd2, hd3) SAN1LUN1)--> (((VM1 vmxfiles) SAN2LUN0), ((VM1 hd1) SAN2LUN1), ((VM1 hd2) SAN2LUN2), ((VM1 hd3) SAN2LUN3))
  --------------

  I wish I could get a single line in a csv file:

  --------------
  ex:

  VMName, VMXFILESLUN, HD1, HD1LUN, HD2, HD2LUN, HD3, HD3LUN
  --------------

  Is it possible to have this command, which overlooks several lines

  --------------

  Get-disk hard - VM * | where {$_.} DiskType - "Flat" eq} | Select the Parent, name, file name

  Parent                                                             Name                                                              Filename
  ------                                                             ----                                                              --------
  VM1                                                         Hard disk 1                                                       [DS1] VM1/VM1.vmdk
  VM1                                                         Hard disk 2                                                       [DS1] VM1/VM1_1.vmdk
  VM1                                                         Hard disk 3                                                       [DS1] VM1/VM1_2.vmdk

  --------------

  Instead, format to give:

  --------------

  VM1, name, hard drive 1, VM1/VM1.vmdk disk, Hard [DS1] 2, [DS1] VM1/VM1_1.vmdk, Hard disk 3, VM1/VM1_2.vmdk [DS1]

  --------------

  Thank you

  Try something like that.

  Note that we need to sort the table with the longest row at the top, otherwise Export-Csv has a problem.

  $report = @()
  foreach($vm in Get-VM){
      $row = "" | Select VM    $row.VM = $vm.Name
      foreach($hd in (Get-HardDisk -VM $vm)){
          Add-Member -InputObject $row -MemberType NoteProperty -Name $hd.Name.Replace("Hard disk ","HD") -Value $hd.Name
          Add-Member -InputObject $row -MemberType NoteProperty -Name $hd.Name.Replace("Hard disk ","LUN") -Value $hd.Filename
      }
      $report += $row}
  $report | Sort-Object -Property {($_ | gm | Measure-Object).Count} -Descending | ` Export-Csv "C:\vm-hd-list.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

• drive Thin provisioning

  What is disc thin provisioning?

  Thank you

  Prashant

  Please see this article: VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning

• Get a VM hard drives size

  Hello!

  I am trying to retrieve information about hard disks and storage of a VirtualMachine details.

  I get what I need using vm.getStorage () .getPerDatastoreUsage (); but unfortunately, the getStorage method does not work for older versions of Virtual Center (I get an exception caused by InvalidProperty).

  Is there another way I can get the size of the virtual disks to a virtual machine?

  For example, it would be enough to have something like the cmdlet Get-hard drive you can use with PowerCLI...

  Thank you very much!

  Filippo

  You can enumerate all the devices in the virtual machine. For each device, check if it is a hard drive and find the size.

  HTH,

  -Mani.

• Help pass the hard drives of a scsi controller to another scsi controller!

  Hello

  I deployed a cluster of virtual machines from a template and trying to customize them according to the requirement. I called one of the post and used the code below. Changed the settings of the virtual machines, but the image is corrupt all the time.

  # get the virtual computer object

  $vmVMSTORE23 = get - VM VMSTORE23

  # a thin in the storageformat of hard disk

  $vmVMSTORE23 | Get-hard drive | Together-hard drive - thin StorageFormat

  # define the type of SCSI controller

  $vmVMSTORE23 | Get-SCSI controller. Set controller SCSI-type VirtualLsiLogicSAS

  I tried the other way, adding a new scsi controller and move the existing hard disks to the new controller scsi. A hard disk created along deployment of a model does not again move scsi controller and vm tries to start node scsi 1:0 and no node scsi 0:1. This is the snap of code I used

  $VirtualMachinesDetails | % {New-disk-hard - VM $_.} Name - CapacityGB 1 - Datastore (Get-Datastore $_.) (Magasin de données)-persistence IndependentNonPersistent-confirm: $false} (disc 2)

  $VirtualMachinesDetails | % {New-disk-hard - VM $_.} {Name - DiskType $_.rawtype - Devicename $_ .rdm1 - confirm: $false} (Disc 3)

  $VirtualMachinesDetails | % {New-disk-hard - VM $_.} {Name - DiskType $_.rawtype - Devicename $_ .rdm2 - confirm: $false} (drive 4)

  $disk = $VirtualMachinesDetails | % {Get-disk hard - VM $_.} Name | Select the option - 4 first}

  $VirtualMachinesDetails | % {New-SCSI - HDD controller $disk - type $_.} Type}

  Someone please help me with this.

  Thanks in advance

  SAI

  What I wanted to say, create a new hard drive with the new type of controller.

  Like this

  $vmName = "TestVM"$VM = Get-VM -Name $vmName
  
  New-HardDisk -VM $vm -CapacityGB 1 -ThinProvisioned | New-ScsiController -Type VirtualLsiLogicSAS
  

  Then restart the virtual machine and the guest operating system must take care of the driver.

  Once the driver is installed in the guest operating system, you can move the hard disk that contains the system partition to the new controller.

  $vmName = "TestVM"$VM = Get-VM -Name $vmName
  
  $controller = Get-ScsiController -Name "SCSI Controller 1" -VM $vmyGet-HardDisk -VM $VM -Name "Hard disk 1" | Set-HardDisk -Controller $controller -Confirm:$false
  

• Oddity with set-hard drive - storageformat?

  I'm trying to move individual disks of virtual machine based on their data store, regardless of what that VM that they are attached to.  I can give a larger image of my task if requested, but I'm not sure its relevant.

  When I get the disk object in the pipeline to Get-data store:

  Get-data store 'datastorename ' | Get-hard drive | Select - 1 first | Together-hard drive - Datastore (Get-data store "newdatastore") - thin - StorageFormat confirm: $false

  ... I get this error:

  Together-hard drive: 13/01/2011 13:46:18 Set - HardDisk Transformation of the storage disc format is not supported for drives not attached.

  However, when I get the disk object in the pipeline to Get - VM:

  Get - VM "vmname" | Get-hard drive | Select - 1 first | Together-hard drive - Datastore (Get-data store "newdatastore") - thin - StorageFormat confirm: $false

  .. .it works.  And it's the same file/disk VM, I deal in both cases.

  Strange?

  Hi Jesse,.

  When a hard drive is directly extracted from a data store, there is insufficient information to determine whether or not it is attached to a virtual machine. And for drives that are not attached to a virtual machine we do not support changing the storage format. You must retrieve the disks of virtual machines to do this.

  Kind regards

  Dimitar

  Team PowerCLI

• PowerCLI syntax: copy-hard drive

  Hello

  I installed the latest version and tried to copy a hard drive. (I am mistaken, this hard drive copy should act as vmkfstools-i?)

  You have sombody it works? I always get:

  Hard disk copy: 22.01.2010 08:30:20 521d8bb4-ac7b-6588-94c0-095c593053d8 of hard disk copy for the entity failed with the followi

  ng message: "General failure caused by file.

  One of the provided parameters is not valid.

  Command:

  Get-disk hard testbox.foobar.com | Hard disk copy "[Datastore] Testfolder/testcopy.vmdk" <-data store is in parentheses

  The folder is created...

  Just a guess: could be a problem if I do a:

  Get-hard drive | get-member translates: VMware.VimAutomation.Client20.FlatHardDiskImpl

  "and waiting for the copy: VMware.VimAutomation.Types.HardDisk.

  See also: (these two examples do not work for me)

  http://www.VMware.com/support/developer/windowstoolkit/wintk40u1/HTML/index.html

  Would be great if someone could help me that I can copy a disk via powershell.

  Concerning

  It work?

  Get-VM | Get-HardDisk | Copy-HardDisk -DestinationPath "[ds1] Test/diskcopy" -DestinationStorageFormat Thin
  

  Is the hard drive of already thin origin perhaps?

• ESXi 4 Thin Provisioning

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  Yet, the summary of the resource for this machine shows 11FR as being currently configured:

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  (1) why it would run out of space when 11 - 7.82 = 3.18 GB is theoretically available?

  (2) even if it did run on space should not commissioning it automatically allocate more space, so this does not happen? As you can see there is lots of space available in the data store.

  I would appreciate a lot of the answers / advice you can offer as despite many VMWare reading guides I can't fothom this one out.

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  What is the disk in Windows within the virtual machine? How freespace do you have here?

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• PX1220E - 25 1 external hard drive does not not Linux

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  AFAIK such s for external HARD disk contains software that is possible is not compatible with the Linux operating system.

  To my knowledge, the HARD drive is secure with password, and whenever the password must be inserted to get the HARD drive working.
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  I found a way to disable the request of password on external HARD disk.
  Maybe you could get HARD drive works after the password has been disabled.

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• Hard drive in Windows 7 at boot error

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• Together-hard drive is not resize FS

  Hello!

  
  I'm trying to resize a VM with Set-disc drive.

  Resizing to the vmdk level works, but, as indicated in the documentation, if I'm not resize the disk to the operating system, the command should expand the FS.

  Well, it does not work...

  I'm trying to do this in different ways:

  - 1 get - VM $vmName | Get-hard drive | where {$_.} Name - eq "Hard Disk 2"} | Together-hard drive - CapacityGB 36 - ResizeGuestPartition-confirm: $false -> this process stucks

  2 - get - VM $vmName | Get-hard drive | where {$_.} Name - eq "Hard Disk 2"} | Together-hard drive - CapacityGB 36 - ResizeGuestPartition - GuestCredentials $credentials - confirm: $false -> I get this result:

  Hard drive set: 21/01/2016 17:30:22 Set-hard drive running the script in the operating system guest VM 'devvcli11 '.

  has failed: "the system cannot find the drive specified.

  The system cannot find the drive specified.

  The system cannot find the drive specified.

  The system cannot find the drive specified.

  The system cannot find the drive specified.

  The system cannot find the drive specified.

  The specified disc '4' was not found.

  '

  At line: 1 char: 71

  + Get - VM Devvcli11 | Get-hard drive | where {$_.} Name - eq "Hard Disk 2"} | Game-HardDi...

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

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (devvcli11:VirtualMachineImpl) [Set-hard drive], VimException

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Client20_RunScriptInGuestHelper_RunScriptFileInGuest_ScriptError, VMware.VimAutomation.Vi

  Core.Cmdlets.Commands.VirtualDevice.SetHardDisk

  WARNING: The system cannot find the drive specified.

  The system cannot find the drive specified.

  The system cannot find the drive specified.

  The system cannot find the drive specified.

  The system cannot find the drive specified.

  The system cannot find the drive specified.

  The specified disc '4' was not found.

  3 - get - VM $vmName | Get-hard drive | where {$_.} Name - eq "Hard Disk 2"} | Together-hard drive - CapacityGB 36 - GuestCredentials $credentials - confirm: $false--> this command completes without error, but the drive remains with the old size

  
  

  Can someone help me?

  
  

  Thanks!

  What OS are you running inside the guest?

  Like the cmdlet Set - hard drive help States, "for a list of supported operating systems see the PowerCLI User Guide".

  Take a look at page 28, the help of custom Scripts to extend the supported operating system for vSphere PowerCLI Cmdlets

• Help with script from beginner to the data store and hard drives

  Hello

  I am quite new to scripting, and recently, I created a monstrosity below.

  The problem is with the results. I have no idea why in the results I get the name of the virtual machine and its data store over and over again until all disks are highlighted.

  Any help will be very very much appreciated.

  The script:

  $raport = @)

  Foreach ($i in (Get-Content "Y:\vms.txt"))

  {

  $rekord = «»

  $vm = get-vm-name '$i '.

  $dysk1 = $vm | Get-hard drive | where {$_.} Name - eq 'Disk 1'}

  $datastore1 = $dysk1.filename.split("]") [0].split("[") [1]

  $disks = $vm | Get-hard drive

  {foreach ($disk in $disks)

  $hd = «»

  $disksize = ($disk. CapacityGB)

  $hd += $disksize

  {$rekord += $vm.name + ";" + $datastore1 + ";" + $hd}

  $raport += $rekord

  }

  $raport | out-file 'Y:\dyski.csv '.

  The results in csv:

  VM1Name; datastoreName; 60; VM1Name:datastoreName; 50; VM1Name; datastoreName; 40

  VM2Name; datastoreName; 45; VM2Name; datastoreName; 40

  The results of dream in csv:

  VM1Name; datastoreName; 60; 50 40

  VM2Name; datastoreName; 45 40

  etc.

  Try like this

  $raport = @)

  Foreach ($i in (Get-Content "Y:\vms.txt"))

  {

  $rekord = «»

  $vm = get-vm-name '$i '.

  $disk = $vm | Get-hard drive

  $datastore = ($disk | where {$_.}) Name - eq "disk 1" hard}).filename.split ("]") [0].split("[") [1].

  $rekord = "$($vm.)". The name); $($datastore); $(($disk | sélectionnez-ExpandProperty CapacityGB)-join ' |') »

  $raport += $rekord

  }

  $raport | out-file 'Y:\dyski.csv '.