Yesterday I blogged about the Powershell script that Hugo Peeters created for adding a snapshot Column to your VI Client with Powershell. Hugo used a custom field to show this data and I wrote the following:
Some of you might say that this lacks the detail one would love to see within vCenter. Well knowing Hugo my guess it that this will evolve fast, and I expect some cool additions coming up.
Well I wasn’t expecting Hugo to be this quick, but he just blogged about four new additions:
Total Snapshot Size
The number of snapshots is quite interesting, but even more interesting, is the total size of the delta files all snapshots are occupying. They might be eating up all your precious SAN space. Plus, reverting to or committing a large snapshot is tricky. Add-VMSnapshotSize.ps1
Host Hardware Model
Want to see what models of hardware you are using in your datacenter? You could look at the summary tab of each host. Or run this script to add the info to the every Hosts tab in the VI Client. Select your Datacenter, select the Hosts tab and enjoy! Add-VMHostModel.ps1
Host ESX Version
Did you update all your ESX Servers to the latest version? Check it quickly using this script. Add-VMHostVersion.ps1
Host LUN Count
Last but certainly not least: are you sure every datastore you are using is available to all your ESX Servers? It is visible at a glance when you add the LUN Count to your VI Client! Add-VMHostLUNCount.ps1
So what can we expect in the future? I really don’t know… but my guess is that we can expect a lot more coming up over the next few days.
[update: if any of the links fail, here’s the source article.]
All the script links in this entry produce 404 errors.