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vSphere Performance data – Part 8 – Wrap-up and next steps

Aug 23, 2017 (Last modified: Apr 16, 2019) grafana influxdb powershell powercli stats

This is Part 8 and last part (I think...) of my series on vSphere Performance data. Part 1 discusses the project, Part 2 is about exploring how to retrieve data, Part 3 is about using Get-Stat for the retrieval. Part 4 talked about the database used to store the retrieved data, InfluxDB. Part 5 showed how data is …

vSphere Performance data – Part 7 – More data

Jul 21, 2017 (Last modified: Apr 16, 2019) powercli powershell realtime stats vmware influxdb

This is Part 7 of my series on vSphere Performance data. Part 1 discusses the project, Part 2 is about exploring how to retrieve data, Part 3 is about using Get-Stat for the retrieval. Part 4 talked about the database used to store the retrieved data, InfluxDB. Part 5 showed how data is written to the database. Part 6 …

vSphere Performance data – Part 6 – The Dashboard(s)

Jul 21, 2017 (Last modified: Apr 16, 2019) grafana powercli powershell stats vcenter influxdb

This is Part 6 of my series on vSphere Performance data. Part 1 discusses the project, Part 2 is about exploring how to retrieve data, Part 3 is about using Get-Stat for the retrieval. Part 4 talked about the database used to store the retrieved data, InfluxDB. Part 5 showed how data is written to the database. This …

vSphere Performance data – Part 5 – The script

Jul 17, 2017 (Last modified: Mar 29, 2019) powercli powershell stats vcenter influxdb

This is Part 5 of my series on vSphere Performance data. Part 1 discusses the project, Part 2 is about exploring how to retrieve data, Part 3 is about using Get-Stat for the retrieval. Part 4 talked about the database used to store the retrieved data, InfluxDB. This one will do some actual work and will retrieve data …

Issues with Get-Spbm* PowerCLI cmdlets and vCenter 6.5

Jul 14, 2017 (Last modified: Apr 1, 2019) bug powercli powershell storagepolicy vcenter

We are using Storage Policies on all VMs in our environment and rely on those to give the VM's the correct storage. Storage Policy based management is a key area for VMware going forward it seems, especially with things like vSAN and VVOL. In addition to matching a VM and it's storage we are using the policies to set …

vSphere Performance data – Part 4 – InfluxDB

Jul 13, 2017 (Last modified: Mar 29, 2019) powershell stats influxdb

This is Part 4 of my series on vSphere Performance data. Part 1 discusses the project, Part 2 is about exploring how to retrieve data, Part 3 is about using Get-Stat for the retrieval. This post will be about the database used to store the retrieved data, InfluxDB. The last post left of with the beginning of a script …

vSphere Performance data - Part 3 - Get-stat

Jul 12, 2017 (Last modified: Mar 29, 2019) powercli powershell stats

This is the Part 3 in my series on vSphere performance data. Part 1 discussed the project, Part 2 was about checking the methods of retrieving data and ended with me realizing I would use Get-Stat against all (4000) VMs to retrieve data. Part 2 was posted over a month ago as I have been busy preparing for the VCP 6.5 …

Orphaned files

May 8, 2017 (Last modified: Mar 29, 2019) powercli powershell

A colleague asked if I had a script lying around that could investigate datastores and find orphaned files. Well, I didn't. But instead of spending a lot of time creating one from scratch I went to our friend google and searched. There were lots of results, but I found one from Powershell guru LucD (lucd.info) and …