An interesting question arrived in my mailbox this morning. Robert wanted to know what was the most efficient way to create a new property, called lunID, for the objects returned by the Get-ScsiLun cmdlet.
The new property had to show the lunID, as it is returned in the LUN column in the vSphere client.
With the vSphere 5 licensing buzz from the past days and the incredibel number of hits on my Query vRAM post, I considered that a script to help you discover your memory overallocations might be useful.
The script uses the metric mem.usage.average to find out what amount of it’s allocated memory a guest is actually using. The script produces a report that will help you to determine which guests would be good candidates to lower their memory allocation.
After the Cloud Infrastructure Launch Forum event from July 12th 2011, it seemed that the new licensing model attracted more blog posts and tweets than the 140 new features in vSphere 5.
As one could imagine, one of the most heard questions was, what will I need to pay in the new licensing model. As a pro-active measure, I decided to write a short script that would tell me what vRAM entitlement my current vSphere 4 licenses would offer me.
Update August 4th 2011 08:30: VMware updated the vRAM calculation specifications. See the VMware vSphere™ 5.0 Licensing, Pricing and Packaging White Paper.
Update July 13th 2011 14:45: Apparently you have a vRAM pool per license type. I updated the script.
In my previous posts in this series, I showed how you can use metrics to produce statistical reports.
One aspect of the metrics that we haven’t touched till now is the roll up types for metrics. If we look in the PerfCounterInfo object under the rollupType property, we discover that there are several of roll up types available. The enumeration lists the following: average, latest, minimum, maximum, none and summation.
What do all these types mean, and more importantly how do we handle these in our scripts ?
That is the subject of this episode in the statistics series.
