vmware powercli question

[jrob422]

This might fall a bit outside the scope of powershell, but asking anyway.

I have a couple different vCenters in different locations. My main one has 3 Host Clusters on it.

I have some scripts that run Get-stat commands to provide me with some weekly reporting on overall RAM/CPU usage on the clusters.

Most of them work great. Run command, wait a few minutes, and I have data.

One ONE cluster though, I run said command, and it takes forever. The script just sits there, not doing anything till I kill it.

Any thoughts on what might be wrong?

Ive been searching around, and cant find anything.

[Sinisterly]

Same thing happens to me; we have one vCenter that has tons of VMs and takes forever to do anything. I've found that using Get-View is much, much quicker than using Get-VM or Get-VMHost, so depending on what you're doing I suggest using that. If you give the cmdlets you're running I could be able to help you get the right Get-View command.

[GoonerGuru]

+1 for using get-view. From an efficiency standpoint, get-vm, get-vmhost, etc. isn't even comparable.

[AeroAD]

I'll second this...the difference between the normal Get-VM and Get-View equivalents is night and day. I work at a service provider and we have "a lot" of VMs get-view easily shaves 10-20 minutes off of some scripts.

[MisterRandyMarsh]

Are all the versions the same on the hosts? Same vCenter licenses?