Comments on: PowerCLI 5.5 R2, they do listen to you !

By: David

David — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:48:53 +0000

Hi LucD,

Please can you help, after update to the latest version of Powershell im still getting that error?

PowerCLI Version
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VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.5 Release 2 Patch 1 build 1931983
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Snapin Versions
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VMWare AutoDeploy PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1890764
VMWare ImageBuilder PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1890764
VMware vCloud Director PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1649227
VMware License PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1265954
VMware VDS PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1926677
VMware vSphere PowerCLI Component 5.5 Patch 1 build 1926677

Thanks
-David

By: David

David — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:42:57 +0000

Hi LucD,

I have installed the latest version of powerCLI from the link you guys gave, but im still getting the same error
Get-StatType : Cannot validate argument on parameter ‘Entity’. The argument is
null or empty. Supply an argument that is not null or empty and then try the
command again.

Have I missed something ?

your advise on this will be much appreciated..

-David

By: LucD

LucD — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:31:25 +0000

In reply to Antonio. Hi Antonio, In PowerCLI 5.5 R2 (make sure to get build 1671586), the Get-Stat cmdlet should support datastore related counters. Do you see the counters returned when you do a Get-StatType -Entity $ds ?

By: Antonio

Antonio — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 00:10:24 +0000

Hi LucD, is it me or does get-stat still not work with datastores?

I’m using PowerCLI 5.5 R2 and vCenter 5.5, and when I do:
$ds = get-datastore -name Compellent_LUN_1
get-stat -Entity $ds -Stat datastore.read.average -MaxSamples 2

After a few seconds, I get nothing returned. The same is true if I do:
get-stat -Entity $ds -Stat disk.read.average -MaxSamples 2

Basically, I’m trying to get real-time datastore throughput and IOPS metrics, or as close as possible.

By the way, thanks for all of your contributions to the community!

-Antonio