List NFS Datastore Usage
Some time ago someone we agreed on putting a minimum of 15 Virtual Machines on each NFS-volume on our NetApp storage. Now, almost a year later we have about 14 NFS volumes and the spreading of the VM’s on the Volumes have become a bit out of the ordinary. Mostly because we didn’t have an easy overview of how many VM’s there are present on each volume or because VM’s needed to be created on a short notice.
Since I’ve been busy with PowerShell I decided to create a nice script/utility to create this overview and to increase our insight in our NFS volumes. At first I made a console script, but soon -while I was discovering the posibilities of PowerShell- I created a GUI for it using PrimalForms.
List NFS Store Usage - Example Output
The source is no rocket science, but I just found the utility very handy/helpful to monitor our storage environment for VMware. If you intend to use this sourcecode, don’t forget to adjust the VirtualCenter hostname and access credentials. Also, the names of our DataStores are all start with “VMWare_NFSxx” and I have a condition running to check if the DataStore name starts with that. You might want to adjust that to your datastore name convention.
