PowerCLI - datastore capacity with free space percentage (one liner)

This is a one liner that will compute free space percentage as well as dump datastore name, capacity and freespace in GB.

Requires: VMware, Powershell and PowerCLI

Code:

Get-Datastore | Select-Object name, @{name="CapacityGB";Expression={[math]::Round($_.capacitygb,2)}}, @{name="FreeSpaceGB";Expression={[math]::Round($_.freespacegb,2)}}, @{name="PercentFree";Expression={[math]::Round(($_.freespacegb / $_.capacitygb * 100),2)}}

  • powercli, vmware, powershell
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