Script to List Thin provisioned virtual disks with disk size Info

Script to List Thin provisioned virtual disks with disk size Info

It is very useful script for system admins to generate list of virtual machines having thin disks with details to CSV format .

 

Connect-VIServer (MyvCenter) -User (My Username)-Password (My Password)

$report = @()

foreach ($vm in Get-VM){

$view = Get-View $vm

if ($view.config.hardware.Device.Backing.ThinProvisioned -eq $true){

$row = ” | select Name, Provisioned, Total, Used, VMDKs, VMDKsize, DiskUsed, Thin

$row.Name = $vm.Name

$row.Provisioned = [math]::round($vm.ProvisionedSpaceGB , 2)

$row.Total = [math]::round(($view.config.hardware.Device | Measure-Object CapacityInKB -Sum).sum/1048576 , 2)

$row.Used = [math]::round($vm.UsedSpaceGB , 2)

$row.VMDKs = $view.config.hardware.Device.Backing.Filename | Out-String

$row.VMDKsize = $view.config.hardware.Device | where {$_.GetType().name -eq ‘VirtualDisk’} | ForEach-Object {($_.capacityinKB)/1048576} | Out-String

$row.DiskUsed = $vm.Extensiondata.Guest.Disk | ForEach-Object {[math]::round( ($_.Capacity – $_.FreeSpace)/1048576/1024, 2 )} | Out-String

$row.Thin = $view.config.hardware.Device.Backing.ThinProvisioned | Out-String

$report += $row

}}

$report | Sort Name | Export-Csv  “C:\diskinfo.csv”

Out Put 

Name	Provisioned	Total	Used	VMDKs	VMDKsize	DiskUsed	Thin
VM	86.19	70	68.65	[DS-01] VM/VM.vmdk	70	52.56	TRUE