{"id":53,"date":"2010-04-06T17:50:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2010-04-06T17:50:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:50:17","slug":"get-thick-provisioned-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/scripting\/get-thick-provisioned-disks\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Thick Provisioned Disks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another interesting PowerCLI script from today. \u00a0My proof of concept environment uses thin provisioned disks &#8212; this lets us have a lot more test machines than we really have disk space. \u00a0 The other day we ran out of space &#8212; a new admin had been creating test machines for a project using oversized disks and thick-provisioning. \u00a0A coworker actually came up with this script to help find those disks so we could turn thin provisioning back on:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nget-vm | get-view | %{\r\n \r\n$name = $_.name\r\n \r\n$_.Config.Hardware.Device | where {$_.GetType().Name -eq \"VirtualDisk\"} |\u00a0 %{\r\n \r\nif(!$_.Backing.ThinProvisioned){\r\n \r\n\"$name has a thick provisioned disk\"\r\n \r\n}\r\n \r\n}\r\n \r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another interesting PowerCLI script from today. \u00a0My proof of concept environment uses thin provisioned disks &#8212; this lets us have a lot more test machines than we really have disk space. \u00a0 The other day we ran out of space &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/scripting\/get-thick-provisioned-disks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scripting","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}