Virtual Infrastructure DB Project
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This started life as small script to collect VM info from 5 or 6 vCentre's (that were a mix of v2.5 and v4, and weren't linked together), so that VM's could be easily found without having to search through each one. There are essentially 3 components to it...
- Data collection scripts (run from a Windows desktop)
- A daily PowerCLI script that collects data from all vCenters (and updates the database)
- An intra-day PowerCLI script (say every 15mins) that collects basic cluster status data (and updates the database)
- MySQL database (run on an Ubuntu VM)
- PHP front end (delivered by Apache running on same Ubuntu VM)
Releases
Matrix
- Standard include files...
- Standard.ps1 - Basic PowerShell helper (logging etc)
- PowerCLI-helper-v1.1.ps1 - PowerCLI helper (provides API bug workarounds)
- DS-LUN-v4.ps1 - PowerCLI Datastore helper (LUN's etc)
- getsnapshotsize-1.ps1 - PowerCLI Get_Snapshot bug workaround
Change Log
Version 1.1
- Data Collection (db-base-data)
- Bugfix: Where VC provides no VM FolderID, VM is assigned incorrect VC folder path - now catch as error
- Bugfix: VM's having no IPAddress in vCentre not handled properly, causing errors - now handled silently
- Bugfix: Added vmvcid to better handle Lab Manager v4 VM's with duplicate UUIDs
- Bugfix: ESX's moving clusters causes duplicate ESX entries - old ESX/cluster entry now gets expired
- Added snapshot info (data collection only, db table already existed)
Version 1.2
- Data Collection (db-base-data)
- Bugfix: Snapshot sizes not right (known PowerCLI bug in Get-Snapshot that I'd wrongly assumed to be fixed)
- Added population of snap.vrange (is snapshot a vRanger snapshot)
- Added ESX extended data (inc IP - needs further work), ntp, hba and nic info
- Consolidated SQL query strings
- Presentation (index)
- Bugfix: VM's exist and On options ignored in non-fuzzy hostname searches
- Added "VMs On" to vCentre summary
- Presentation (status)
- Bugfix: Expired clusters showing (cluster.exist being ignored)
- Bugfix: Standalone ESX's ignored, now shown as member of sudo-cluster "Standalone"
- Improved footer links
- Presentation (snaps)
- Initial - list of VM snapshots
- Presentation (vm-detail)
- Added datastore usage summary
Version 1.2.1
- Data Collection (db-base-data)
- Bugfix: Standalone ESX's cause SQL INSERT error (as clid isn't defined)
- Bugfix: Script crash when unable to get ESX NIC/HBA info (happens when ESX not connected)
Version 1.2.2
- Data Collection (db-base-data)
- Workaround: DV switch doesn't have VLAN ID in same place as Port Group causing SQL INSERT fail, caught and set to NULL
Version 2.0
- Data Collection (db-base-data)
- Changed to Async/PS Jobs in order to run against multiple vCentre's simultaneously
- vCentre data mining moved to sub-script (db-base-data-sub)
- Moved MySQL functions out to library file (shared between main and sub-script)
- Enforce run in 32 bit environment (PowerCLI bug workaround, vSphere scripts crash Powershell when launched as background jobs in 64bit)
- Added basic support for vApp VM's (name add to vm_ext, vm folder now supported)
- Added logging of errors to database
- Added sanity checks (make sure total no of clusters, ESXs, VMs in db matches VC)
- Added basic support for distributed switches, and added special network types (mgmt, vmk, ft)
- Improved deleted VM handling
- Change logging timestamp from xxx secs to hh:mm:ss.msec
- Bugfix: Old VMDK's / vNIC's don't get removed from VM's - additional now deleted NOT WORKING YET, NIC's get added and deleted on some VM's **** TO FIX ****
- Changed to Async/PS Jobs in order to run against multiple vCentre's simultaneously
- Presentation (index)
- Added links to run-errors and ds-waste
- Presentation (run-errors)
- Initial creation
- Presentation (vm-detail)
- Added vApp and UUID
- Added datastore usage summary
- Presentation (snaps)
- Added basic sorting
Version 2.1
- Data Collection (db-base-data-sub)
- Performance improvements (reduce's runtime by about 60%)
- Improved VM Cluster get to use lookup table
- Changed VM Guest OS get to use existing VM object
- Bugfix: Lab Manager VM's not being removed after deletion (include checking of Persistent ID)
- Performance improvements (reduce's runtime by about 60%)
Version 2.2
- Data Collection (db-base-data-sub)
- Minor improvements to error messages
- Performance improvements
- Caching of Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter during ESX info gather
- Added VMTools state and VM version
- Presentation (index)
- Added links
- Presentation (vm-detail)
- Added VMTools state
- Presentation (vmtools)
- Initial
- Presentation (vnics)
- Initial
Version 2.3
- Data Collection (db-base-data-sub)
- Added ESX NIC firmware version
- Presentation (index)
- Added links
- Presentation (esxs)
- Initial
Version 2.4
- Data Collection (db-base-data-sub)
- Bugfix: VM's not in cluster don't get added to db (introduced in v2.1)
- Bugfix: "Couldn't find ESX ID for VM" error catch not working
- Added VM custom attributes
- Added vApps
- Presentation (index)
- Added link to vApps
- Presentation (vapps)
- Initial
- Presentation (css)
- Added additional table cell formats
Version 2.5
- Data Collection (db-base-data)
- Added check for sub-script fail
- Data Collection (db-base-data-sub)
- Bugfix: Remove old VMDK's for VMs didn't work (SQL query incorrect)
- Bugfix: VM NICs with multiple IPs not handled correctly
- Improved error logging (DS inaccessible, VMs not in cluster)
- Added sev0 error log at completion to signal parent script that script exited cleanly
- Data Collection (db-esx-check)
- Bugfix: Log rollover didn't work
- Performance optimisation - changed data gather to use single Get-View
- Presentation (vm-detail)
- Added conditional formatting to Powered, VM Tools, vmnic version
- Added link to vApp
- Presentation (run-errors)
- Updated for 'note' severity category
- Presentation (vmtools)
- Updated Tools Status handling