Yesterday, Alan Renouf released the last vCheck script version, aka version 6.10
It’s been a while since we worked on ii in order to give Alan some feedback, bug track and enhancements, and after looking at this 6.10 version, a lot of stuff have been keeped, that’s cool ! Here is the 6.# branch changelog :
- 6.10 – Fixed multiple spelling mistakes and small plugin issues
- 6.9 – Fixed VMKernel logs but had to remove date/Time parser due to inconsistent VMKernel Log entries
- 6.8 – Added Creator of snapshots back in due to popular demand
- 6.7 – Added Multiple plugins from contributors – Thanks!
- 6.6 – Tech Support Mode Plugin fixed to work with 5.0 hosts
- 6.5 – HW Version plugin fixed due to string output
- 6.4 – Added a 00 plugin and VeryLastPlugin for vCenter connection info to separate the report entirely from VMware if needed.
- 6.3 – Changed the format of each Plugin so you can include a count for each header and altered plugin layout for each plugin.
- 6.2 – Added Time to Run section based on TimeToBuild by Frederic Martin
- 6.1 – Bug fixes, filter for ps1 files only in the plugins folder so other files can be kept in the plugins folder.
The vCheck script is still available here : http://www.virtu-al.net/featured-scripts/vcheck/, the plugin repository is available here : http://www.virtu-al.net/featured-scripts/vcheck/vcheck-plugins/
Among available plugins, here are the ones we made with hypervisor.fr or which we contributed to (mainly thoses made for v5, see the post vCheck v5++):
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| Description | VMware snapshots which are kept for a long period of time may cause issues, filling up datastores and also may impact performance of the virtual machine. |
| Author | Alan Renouf, Raphael Schitz |
| Version | 1.1 |
| Download | Download here and save in your plugins folder |
Hosts Dead Lun Path
VMs Ballooning or Swapping
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| Description | Ballooning and swapping may indicate a lack of memory or a limit on a VM, this may be an indication of not enough memory in a host or a limit held on a VM, [http://www.virtualinsanity.com/index.php/2010/02/19/performance-troubleshooting-vmware-vsphere-memory/](further information is available here). |
| Author | Alan Renouf, Frederic Martin |
| Version | 1.1 |
| Download | Download here and save in your plugins folder |
Number of VMs per Datastore
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| Description | The Maximum number of VMs per datastore is 256, the following VMs are above the defined $NumVMsPerDatastore and may cause performance issues |
| Author | Alan Renouf, Frederic Martin |
| Version | 1.1 |
| Download | Download here and save in your plugins folder |
Hardware status warnings/errors
Guests with wrong OS
Guest OS Pivot table
Unwanted virtual hardware found
Snapshot removed
Snapshots Oversize
Snapshot created
Mis-named virtual machines
Host Build versions in use
Disk Max Total Latency
Datastores in Maintenance Mode
Cluster Node version
Capacity Planning
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| Description | The following gives brief capacity information for each cluster based on average CPU/Mem usage and counting for HA failover requirements |
| Author | Raphael Schitz, Frederic Martin |
| Version | 1.1 |
| Download | Download here and save in your plugins folder |
Plugins not up to date or not installed
In order to enable theses plugins, you just have to put them in the vCheck script Plugin folder, and they’ll be automatically activated.
This time, we also made a custom header we like (and it’s with the colors of ESXi).
In order to make this right, you just have to rename it Header.jpg and put it at the root folder of vCheck.ps1 script and to setup the following color in the script configuration file GlobalVariables.ps1 :
# Use the following area to define the title color
$Colour1 = "555555"
