Another mega slow VIToolkit call (Get-HardDisk)
My good friend has found another VI Toolkit call that is amazingly slow compared to pulling useful data from it. I’ve done performance testing before of Get-VM against Get-View to get to the useful data needed day to day. In that test using Get-View was 18x faster than using Get-VM.
This past week he [...]
Posted on March 21, 2009 at 6:53 pm by iguy · Permalink
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In: VMware · Tagged with: Get-HardDisk, Powershell, VI Toolkit, vitoolkit
In: VMware · Tagged with: Get-HardDisk, Powershell, VI Toolkit, vitoolkit
Powershell speed – Get-VM vs. Get-Type -ViewType
I’ve been starting to look at using the VI Toolkit which uses Powershell. In doing this many of the command formats tend to be “Get-VM | Get-View” or “Get-VMHost | Get-View“. So I’m off and figuring this out and I run a small script and say “Geez that took a long time to run”. I’m [...]
Posted on December 12, 2008 at 6:06 pm by iguy · Permalink
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In: VMware · Tagged with: Get-View, Get-VM, Powershell, VI Toolkit, VMware
In: VMware · Tagged with: Get-View, Get-VM, Powershell, VI Toolkit, VMware