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  • 1.  VM disk space monitoring

    Posted Nov 02, 2011 11:31 AM

    I'm running vSphere 4.1, ~300 VMs, 12 ESXes and vCenter. Guest OS is mostly Windows 2003/2008.

    How can I keep track of disk space within my VMs in the easiest way? Is there a way to get a report from vCenter?



  • 2.  RE: VM disk space monitoring

    Posted Nov 02, 2011 12:08 PM

    Hi

    I'm affraid that it's not possible to get that report directly from vCenter, you can get it via PWCLi script. Brows PWCLi community, I'm pretty sure that you will find a script which you need

    http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vsphere/automationtools/powercli

    or visit virtu-al web site

    http://www.virtu-al.net/ - nice PWCLI script repository

    Script will generate a report, we can say that it's kind a monitoring (manual not automatic). For automatic monitoring (will send an allert or email when disk is full) you could try with nagios, it's free open source monitoring solution.

    http://www.nagios.org/



  • 3.  RE: VM disk space monitoring
    Best Answer

    Posted Nov 07, 2011 10:48 AM

    The best way is to get any kind of informations (also disk usage within VM's) is to use the freeware RVTools http://www.robware.net/



  • 4.  RE: VM disk space monitoring

    Posted Nov 07, 2011 11:21 AM

    I agree. I've been using RVtools ever since I got known of it. Very helpful for searching a lot of information I need from vCenter.



  • 5.  RE: VM disk space monitoring

    Posted Nov 08, 2011 06:24 AM

    I just installed RVtools now... Love it!! Easy to get started, and gives loads and loads of useful info, including the free disk space report. Its all I need :smileyhappy: Thank you!



  • 6.  RE: VM disk space monitoring

    Posted Mar 08, 2012 10:00 AM

    Hi all,

    we are using vsphere 5.0, i got a couple of questions about this topic:

    - is there a way to set disk space alarm in that version?

    - version 5 of VCenter is runnning on SLES 11 box so rvtools is not possible. Other similar softwares?(nagios excluded)

    Thank in advance



  • 7.  RE: VM disk space monitoring

    Posted Mar 08, 2012 10:16 AM

    vSpeher5 provides more then v4 so you will get anything then before 5 and more :smileyhappy:

    If you are using the vCenter virtual appliance, you will need tools, accessing the API to get the informations you need.

    I would recommend you to get familiar with PowerCLI! If you are not familiar with it, use PowerGUI and the admin pack script repository to get the most out of PowerCLI.