Using PowerCLI to determine if my VM has an IDE or SCSI HardDisk

[Gambit5150]

I am trying to find a method of using PowerCLI to determine if my VM's have IDE or SCSI hard disks (or both).  I need to start converting, but before I do so I need a solid list of what needs to be converted.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Steven Wright

[LucD]

One way of doing that

Get-VM | Get-HardDisk |

Select @{N="VM";E={$_.Parent}}, Name,

    @{N="Type";E={Get-ScsiController -HardDisk $_ | Select -ExpandProperty Name}}

[Gambit5150]

Thanks, this works pretty well - if it's a SCSI controller it indicates it, if not it produces { }.  Any idea how to add the specific cluster that the VM resides in as well?

Thanks!!

Steve Wright

[LucD]

Sure, try like this

Get-VM | Get-HardDisk |

Select @{N="VM";E={$_.Parent}}, Name,

    @{N="Cluster";E={Get-Cluster -VM $_.Parent | Select -ExpandProperty Name}},

    @{N="Type";E={Get-ScsiController -HardDisk $_ | Select -ExpandProperty Name}}

[Wh33ly]

I had some problem with retreiving IDE targets from the get-scsicontrollerd cmd.

Once I made a simple (not the best) script to retreive IDE or SCSI information from the Controllerkey.

Like I said, it could be made probably a lot easier and faster.

AFAIK

IDE Controllerkey = 200

SCSI Controllerkey = 1000

So also could change the script to match 1000 else set it to unknown or something similar

$Report = @()

$VMs = Get-VM

    foreach ($VM in $VMs){

        $Disks = Get-HardDisk -VM $VM

            foreach ($disk in $Disks){

                if ($disk.ExtensionData.ControllerKey -eq "200") {

                $Row = "" | select Cluster,VM,Disk,Controller,Filename

                $Row.Cluster = get-cluster -vm $VM

                $Row.VM = $disk.Parent

                $Row.Disk = $disk.Name

                $Row.Controller = "IDE"

                $Row.Filename = $disk.Filename

                $Report += $Row

        }

        elseif ($disk.ExtensionData.ControllerKey -ne "200"){

                $Row = "" | select Cluster,VM,Disk,Controller,Filename

                $Row.Cluster = get-cluster -vm $VM

                $Row.VM = $disk.Parent

                $Row.Disk = $disk.Name

                $Row.Controller = "SCSI"

                $Row.Filename = $disk.Filename

            $Report += $Row

        }

    }

}

$report|ft -a

[Cynomus]

SO putting together everyone's ideas into a one-liner:

Get-VMHost -Name <hostname> -Server <vCenterName> | Get-VM | Where-Object{$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"} | Get-HardDisk | %{IF($_.ExtensionData.ControllerKey -eq 200){$_ | Select @{N="VM";E={$_.Parent.Name}},@{N="vControllerType";E={"IDE"}},Name,@{N="Path";E={$_.Filename}},@{N="StorageFormat";E={$_.StorageFormat}}} elseif ($disk.ExtensionData.ControllerKey -ne 200) {$_ | Select @{N="VM";E={$_.Parent.Name}},@{N="vControllerType";E={"SCSI"}},Name,@{N="Path";E={$_.Filename}},@{N="StorageFormat";E={$_.StorageFormat}}}}

Outputs:

VM              : VM1

vControllerType : SCSI

Name            : Hard disk 1

Path            : [DataStoreName] VM1/VM1.vmdk

StorageFormat   : Thin

VM              :VM1

vControllerType : SCSI

Name            : Hard disk 2

Path            : [DataStoreName] VM1/VM1_1.vmdk

StorageFormat   : Thin

VM              : VM2

vControllerType : IDE

Name            : Hard disk 1

Path            : [DataStoreName] VM2/VM2.vmdk

StorageFormat   : Thick