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New vSphere Health Check 5.0 & ghettoVCB Script

07.29.2011 by William Lam // 8 Comments

The vSphere Health Check script has now been updated to support vSphere 5.0 and includes the following new features:

  • vCenter Server Instance UUID
  • vCenter hostname
  • Storage DRS Configuration (Maintenance Mode, Stats Aggregation, Stats Collection for Datastores)
  • FDM/HA Heartbeat Policy + Datastore
  • FDM/HA State
  • Host Agent Settings
  • Host New iSCSI Configuration/Information
  • Host FCoE HBAs
  • Host Source Packages for ESXi Services
  • Host ESXi Capabilities
  • Host SMC Hardware Information regarding OSX Support
  • Host Updated Firewall Rules (direction, port type, port, protocol and allowedIPs)
  • Host Cache SSD Datastore details
  • Host DVS IPFIX Details + NIOC
  • Virtual Machine Virtual Hardware Version
  • Virtual Machine Firmware, Initial overhead memory + swap
  • Virtual Machine State
  • Virtual Machine Snapshot consolidation + HA protection
  • Virtual Machine EZT Disk Type
  • Updated color mappings for multipath states
  • Support for standalone ESX(i) hosts without vCenter Clusters
  • New healthCheck.conf variables:  DVS_SUMMARY, DVS_CAPABILITY, DVS_CONFIG, DATASTORE_CLUSTER_SUMMARY, DATASTORE_CLUSTER_POD_CONFIG, DATASTORE_CLUSTER_POD_ADV_CONFIG, DATASTORE_CLUSTER_POD_STORAGE, HOST_ISCSI, HOST_AGENT, HOST_CACHE, VM_STATE, VM_EZT
  • Updated color scheme for HTML report

Here is an sample report that you can view.

For more details, please check out the vSphere Health Check Script document located here.

The popular free virtual machine backup script ghettoVCB has also been updated to support ESXi 5.0!

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Categories // Uncategorized Tags // ESXi 5.0, health check script, vSphere 5.0

Comments

  1. *protectedoui says

    09/20/2011 at 11:53 am

    Hi,
    Am i missing is it or not, but the reports are not showing individual vsphere servers. I mean the ones that are not clustered. Only cluster nodes are shown.. Will you please confirm this?
    Thanks,
    Engin

    Reply
  2. *protectedWilliam says

    09/20/2011 at 11:56 am

    @oui,

    The new 5.0 version actually supports hosts outside of a VMware cluster, you should be able to see standalone systems.

    Reply
  3. *protectedoui says

    09/20/2011 at 12:07 pm

    Hi,
    When you use type "Datacenter" as parameter, it's not showing the standalone vsphere servers. Also, when you use "vcenter" as type, in the Hosts and Virtual Machines tab, it writes them as Cluster:Hostname.
    Thanks.

    Reply
  4. *protectedWilliam says

    09/20/2011 at 12:09 pm

    @oui,

    Do you mind posting the details of your environment, version, etc. in http://communities.vmware.com/groups/vspherehealthcheck

    Regarding the tab names, that was done on purpose, the name hopefully should indicate it's a stand alone host vs. cluster. It sounds like it does work when you're using vCenter type but not datacenter?

    Reply
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  6. *protectedMassimo Trento says

    01/22/2015 at 10:02 pm

    Hello will,
    I am using the script with vsphere 5.5 support and since i added a new cluster on the 5.5 datacenter,
    the cluster tab in the report is empty.
    Is there a debug option to investigate ?
    Thanks

    Reply
  7. *protectedMike says

    05/10/2017 at 1:56 pm

    Any chance this might get updated to work with vsphere 6.5 appliances and postgres database?

    Reply

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