get-scsilun commnd

[jvm2016]

Hi Luc,

is there any datastore name properyin get-scsilun command .

this command gives lot of info but not datastore name.

[LucD]

No, there isn't I'm afraid.

You will have to do a Get-Datastore, extract the CanonicalName, and then you can map this CanonicalName (in the Get-ScsiLun output) to a DatastoreName.

I do this with a hash table, see for example Get The Maximum IOPS (lines 9-14 and 24)

[jvm2016]

Thnaks Luc ,iam checking that but i thought of trying the following  way.

i tried to combine both commands get-datastore and get-scsilun  .

two isues happend

1:it printed name, datastorelist,pathpolicy of ds though its tough to read for all.

2:iam not sure why it did not print canonicalname. is it because we have lot of entiries

and this method is not appropriate ?

$report=foreach ($esxi in (get-vmhost -location (get-cluster mycluster )))

{

$esxi|select name, @{N='datastore list';E={$_|get-datastore|select name }},

                  @{N='path policy of ds';E={

                  $scsil=get-scsilun -vmhost $esxi

                  $scsil.multipathpolicy}},

                  @{N= 'canonicalname';E={

                  $ds=get-datastore -vmhost $esxi

                  $ds.ExtensionData.info.vmfs.extent.diskname}}

}

$report|out-file report.txt

                  $report|out-file report.txt

[LucD · Accepted solution]

You could do something like this.

But note that you will get a separate line for each path to a LUN.

You could solve the multiple entries with a Sort-Object -Property CanonicalName -Unique after the Select

Get-VMHost -Location (Get-Cluster MyCluster) -PipelineVariable esx |

Get-Datastore -PipelineVariable ds | where{$_.Type -eq 'VMFS'} |

Get-ScsiLun |

Select @{N='VMHost';E={$esx.Name}},

       @{N='Datatsore';E={$ds.Name}},

       MultipathPolicy, CanonicalName

[jvm2016]

Thanks Luc this is what  i wanted but if you dont mind me asking following

i was checking all parameters for command get-vmhost but did not find anything that says "-PipelineVariable ".could you explain something about this .

[LucD]

The PipelineVariable is a so-called common PowerShell parameter (not PowerCLI) parameter (and a few others like WhatIf...)