Tag Archives: VMWare

Finding VMs with IOPs Limiting Set

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Using PowerCLI it’s pretty easy to find all the VM’s in your environment that have IOPs limits set.

get-vm | Get-VMResourceConfiguration | `
         Select VM -ExpandProperty DiskResourceConfiguration | `
         where {$_.DiskLimitIOPerSecond -gt 0} | `
         Select VM, DiskLimitIOPerSecond

This will give you a list of all VM’s where the IOps limits are not 0. You could change the condition to find VM’s with different disk shares, specific limits or any combinations there of.

Hope you find this useful 🙂

Finding Recently Updated Files

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So I needed to find what log files were getting updated.  The files where inC:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\logs and that folder has many many folders and I wasn’t sure which one would have the files I needed. I was sure that they would have been updated recently.  So a quick little PowerShell to the rescue

Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Where {$_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-15)}

This returns all the files in the current folder and below that have been modified in the last 15 minutes.  It is easy enough to change up to look for other criteria, like *.log files int he last 5 minutes

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Filter *.log | Where {$_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-5)}

Or all files with pid in their name

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Filter *pid*

Powershell can be very very handy in a pinch! Hope this helps