Hugo posted a great script. It will compare configuration items between a given set of hosts. This can especially come in handy when you’ve got a huge amount of datastores, portgroups or a huge amount of ESX hosts for that matter. Hugo’s post contains a set of excellent examples. Just check his post for more details and the script, heres what the outcome would look like for now:
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esxServer1_Local <=
esxServer2_Local =>
DATASTORE_TEST1 =>
Update: Hugo just posted a follow up to his original blog. This new script creates a CSV file, which can be imported in to Excel for example and the result will look like this:
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doesn’t Virtual infrastructure Manager help manage this for you already?
Is this script similar to Veeams’ EsxDiag for ESX Server 3.x?
VIM certainly doesn’t do this for you. And EsxDiag gives you an idea. But you should look at this script as a framework. You can build anything you want it, compare any kind of setting.