I recently came across a need to review the Storage Policies in use within a vCenter environment and how many objects or virtual machines where using each policy.
I saw this as an excuse to refresh my PowerShell skills and wrote a quick function.
Source code can be found on my GitHub, here. Check there for any updates but below is the code at the time of writing.
function Get-vSANSPSummary {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Export vSAN Storage Policy Information.
.DESCRIPTION
Export vSAN Storage Policies from vCenter showing FTT & Stripe information and amount of amount of VM's using each.
.PARAMETER ExportPath
Path the export the output HTML file.
.NOTES
Tags: VMware, vCenter, SPBM, PowerCLI, API
Author: Stephan McTighe
Website: stephanmctighe.com
.EXAMPLE
PS C:\> Get-vSANSPSummary -ExportPath "C:\report\vSAN-Storage-Policy-Summary.html"
Outputs a HTML file containing the Storage Policy Information for vSAN Storage Policies to a specified location.
#>
#Requires -Modules VMware.VimAutomation.Storage
[CmdletBinding()]
param (
[Parameter(Mandatory)]
[string] $ExportFilePath)
Begin {}
Process {
try {
$Output = @()
$vSANstoragepolicies = Get-SpbmStoragePolicy -Namespace "VSAN"
$SPBM = $vSANstoragepolicies | Select-Object Name, AnyOfRuleSets
ForEach ($SP in $SPBM) {
$Attributes = @( $SP | ForEach-Object { $_.AnyOfRuleSets } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty AllofRules)
$object = [PSCustomObject]@{
SPName = $SP.Name
ObjectCount = $ObjectCount = (Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration -StoragePolicy "$($SP.name)").count
VMCount = $VMCount = (Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration -StoragePolicy "$($SP.Name)" | Where-Object {$_.Entity -notlike "hard*"}).count
RAID = $attributes | Where-Object { $_.Capability -like "*VSAN.replicaPreference*" } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Value
FTT = $attributes | Where-Object { $_.Capability -like "*VSAN.hostFailuresToTolerate*" } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Value
SubFTT = $attributes | Where-Object { $_.Capability -like "*VSAN.subFailuresToTolerate*" } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Value
Stripes = $attributes | Where-Object { $_.Capability -like "*VSAN.stripeWidth*" } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Value
ForceProvision = $attributes | Where-Object { $_.Capability -like "*VSAN.forceProvisioning*" } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Value
StorageType = $attributes | Where-Object { $_.Capability -like "*VSAN.storageType*" } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Value
IOPSLimit = $attributes | Where-Object { $_.Capability -like "*VSAN.iopsLimit*" } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Value
}
$Output += $object
}
$Output | ConvertTo-Html -Property SPName, VMCount, ObjectCount, RAID, FTT, SubFTT, Stripes, ForceProvision, StorageType, IOPSLimit | Out-File $ExportFilePath
}
catch {
Write-Host "An error occurred!" -ForegroundColor Red
Write-Host $_ -ForegroundColor Red
}
}
}Output currently as a basic HTML table but you could change this to add some ‘HTMLness’ or output to CSV.
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As always, thanks for reading and I hope this has been useful to someone.
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