Comments on: Obtaining VMware Guest Disk Free Space for NFS Sizing http://vmtoday.com/2008/12/obtaining-vmware-guest-disk-free-space-for-nfs-sizing/ VMware News, Views, & How-To's from Josh Townsend Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:38:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Guest Free Disk Space Revisited | VMtoday http://vmtoday.com/2008/12/obtaining-vmware-guest-disk-free-space-for-nfs-sizing/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Guest Free Disk Space Revisited | VMtoday Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:52:50 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=11#comment-8 [...] wrote about a method for determining guest free disk space using a PowerShell script a couple weeks ago.  Scott Lowe picked up the post on his blog last [...] [...] wrote about a method for determining guest free disk space using a PowerShell script a couple weeks ago.  Scott Lowe picked up the post on his blog last [...]

]]> By: Joshua Townsend http://vmtoday.com/2008/12/obtaining-vmware-guest-disk-free-space-for-nfs-sizing/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Joshua Townsend Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:56:57 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=11#comment-5 Thanks for the pingback, Scott. You are correct on there being a vCenter plugin for obtaining free disk space - Rich Garsthagen wrote a plug-in called VCPlus that accomplishes this (http://www.run-virtual.com/?page_id=145). I used it for a while a few years back and had mixed results (some VM’s were just not being reported on). Rich and I emailed back and forth a few times trying to figure it out but I dropped off as new projects demanded time. VCPlus also offers a few other neat options such as showing snapshot status and syncing the DNS name with the VC display name for each guest. Rich also has a sample script for the VI Perl Toolkit called VMDiskFree that can report on guest free space. Josh Thanks for the pingback, Scott. You are correct on there being a vCenter plugin for obtaining free disk space – Rich Garsthagen wrote a plug-in called VCPlus that accomplishes this (http://www.run-virtual.com/?page_id=145). I used it for a while a few years back and had mixed results (some VM’s were just not being reported on). Rich and I emailed back and forth a few times trying to figure it out but I dropped off as new projects demanded time. VCPlus also offers a few other neat options such as showing snapshot status and syncing the DNS name with the VC display name for each guest. Rich also has a sample script for the VI Perl Toolkit called VMDiskFree that can report on guest free space.

Josh

]]> By: Virtualization Short Take #25 - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers http://vmtoday.com/2008/12/obtaining-vmware-guest-disk-free-space-for-nfs-sizing/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Virtualization Short Take #25 - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:29:46 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=11#comment-4 [...] Townsend has a good post at VMtoday.com about using PowerShell and SQL queries to determine the amount of free space within guest VMs. As he states in his post, this can often [...] [...] Townsend has a good post at VMtoday.com about using PowerShell and SQL queries to determine the amount of free space within guest VMs. As he states in his post, this can often [...]

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