vCheck-vSphere: vCheck Daily Report for vSphere

by do son · March 24, 2018

vCheck Daily Report for vSphere

vCheck is a PowerShell HTML framework script, the script is designed to run as a scheduled task before you get into the office to present you with key information via an email directly to your inbox in a nice easily readable format.

This script picks on the key is known issues and potential issues scripted as plugins for various technologies written as Powershell scripts and reports it all in one place so all you do in the morning is check your email.

One of the key things about this report is if there is no issue in a particular place you will not receive that section in the email, for example, if there are no datastores with less than 5% free space (configurable) then the disk space section in the virtual infrastructure version of this script, it will not show in the email, this ensures that you have only the information you need in front of you when you get into the office.

This script is not to be confused with an Audit script, although the reporting framework can also be used for auditing scripts too. I don’t want to remind you that you have 5 hosts and what their names are and how many CPUs they have each and every day as you don’t want to read that kind of information unless you need it, this script will only tell you about problem areas with your infrastructure.

What is checked for in the vSphere version?

The following items are included as part of the vCheck vSphere download, they are included as vCheck Plugins and can be removed or altered very easily by editing the specific plugin file which contains the data. vCheck Plugins are found under the Plugins folder.

General Details
Number of Hosts
Number of VMs
Number of Templates
Number of Clusters
Number of Datastores
Number of Active VMs
Number of Inactive VMs
Number of DRS Migrations for the last days
Snapshots over x Days old
Datastores with less than x% free space
VMs created over the last x days
VMs removed over the last x days
VMs with No Tools
VMs with CD-Roms connected
VMs with Floppy Drives Connected
VMs with CPU ready over x%
VMs with over x amount of vCPUs
List of DRS Migrations
Hosts in Maintenance Mode
Hosts in disconnected state
NTP Server check for a given NTP Name
NTP Service check
vmkernel warning messages ov the last x days
VC Error Events over the last x days
VC Windows Event Log Errors for the last x days with VMware in the details
VC VMware Service details
VMs stored on datastores attached to only one host
VM active alerts
Cluster Active Alerts
If HA Cluster is set to use host datastore for swapfile, check the host has a swapfile location set
Host active Alerts
Dead SCSI Luns
VMs with over x amount of vCPUs
vSphere check: Slot Sizes
vSphere check: Outdated VM Hardware (Less than V7)
VMs in Inconsistent folders (the name of the folder is not the same as the name)
VMs with high CPU usage
Guest disk size check
Host over committing memory check
VM Swap and Ballooning
ESXi hosts without Lockdown enabled
ESXi hosts with unsupported mode enabled
General Capacity information based on CPU/MEM usage of the VMs
vSwitch free ports
Disk over commit check
Host configuration issues
VCB Garbage (left snapshots)
HA VM restarts and resets
Inaccessible VMs
Much, Much more…….