Inconsistent Persistence? - NonPersistent harddisks - VI Toolkit

[Austinc]

Task: Flag up any vm with non persistent disks, and report disk size

Issue: I've found that only NonPersistent harddisks that were created using the VI Toolkit are reported correctly

Servers: vm_1 2x NonPersistent disks created using New-VM...

vm_2 3x Persistent disks created manually when vm was created

2x NonPersistent disks added manually

vm_3 1x NonPersistent disk created manually when vm was created

$vm | % {$_.name; foreach ($disk in $_.harddisks) {"$($disk.persistence) $($disk.capacityKB/1024/1024)GB"}}

vm_1

NonPersistent 20GB

NonPersistent 1GB

vm_2

Persistent 12GB

Persistent 8GB

Persistent 10GB

Persistent 10GB

Persistent 10GB

vm_3

Persistent 12GB

[Austinc]

I have managed to work my way around the issue using "diskmode"

(get-view $vm.id).config.hardware.device | ?{$_.backing.diskmode}| %{$_.backing.diskmode}