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August 4th, 2011 13:00

vFoglight calculates logical disk space different

Hi there,

I found out that I have several logical disks on virtual machines, where vFoglight does not take the whole capacity, e.g. I have a virtual machine assigned a 40 GB disk, which is showing up in vFoglight with 39,9 GB. Does anybody had this issue also and probably help me out ?

Interesting is that this does not happen on all disks !

Best regards

hEINER

  • hdoubleu

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    Posted August 25th, 2011 07:00

    Hi,

    found the answer on my own. To calculate the really used disk space of a virtual machine, you need to calculate the size given in the vmdkFileLayouts.

    I'm using a groovy script for that:

    Parameter: vm Monitoring:VMWVirtualMachine

    vm = args['vm'];

    vmdkList = vm.get("vmdkFileLayouts");

    def total = new Double("0");

    for (vmdk in vmdkList)

    {

        total += vmdk.get("diskSize",specificTimeRange);

    }

    return total/1048576;

    Giving the total used disk space of all vmdk files for that virtual machine in MB.

    Best regards,hEINER

  • hdoubleu

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    Posted August 16th, 2011 13:00

    I found that vFoglight does only report on logical disks with given drive letters, e.g. Windows 2008 you have a system partition which has no drive letter assigned, so vFoglight does not report or calculate it.
    So I'm thinking about reporting about the size of the vmdk file associated to a virtual machine, anyone an idea about that ?

    hEINER

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    Posted August 23rd, 2011 17:00

    Heiner,

    vFoglight relies on VMware Tools to retrive the logical disk information inside the guest and it probably only report disk with drive letters assigned as you have pointed out.

    /Mattias

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    Posted August 24th, 2011 10:00

    Hi Matthias,

    thanks for the answer. That was what I already assumed.

    Any Idea about question 2: "So I'm thinking about reporting about the size of the vmdk file associated to a virtual machine, anyone an idea about that ?"

    Best regards,

    hEINER

    Also I'm thinking that no one of Quest support team ever reads these forum posts, as I have already 3 or 4 different posts not even answered...