Get VM Disks and RDMs via PowerCLI

Need to get info about a VM's hard disks?  Like, "regular" virtual disks and RDMs, in a handy and fast manner?  We need to, occasionally, and so wrote a function to do so (a while ago -- just finally posting it).  It gets things like the hard disk name, the SCSI ID, the storage device display name, the disk size, the SCSI canonical name, and [optionally] the full datastore path for the disk files.  Here again, not the first bit of code around to retrieve such things, but a version that is written to do things most quickly.

The script:

<# .Description
    Function to get a VM's hard disk and RDM info
    Originally from Sep 2011, updated Dec 2013 -- vNugglets.com
    .Example
    Get-VMDiskAndRDM -vmName someVM -ShowVMDKDatastorePath | ft -a
    VMName HardDiskName ScsiId DeviceDisplayName SizeGB ScsiCanonicalName                    VMDKDStorePath
    ------ ------------ ------ ----------------- ------ -----------------                    --------------
    someVM Hard disk 1  0:0                          50                                      [dstore0] someVM/someVM.vmdk
    someVM Hard disk 2  1:0    someVM-/log_dir       20 naa.60000945618415615641111111111111 [dstore0] someVM/someVM_1.vmdk
    Get the disks (including RDMs) for "someVM", and include the datastore path for each VMDK
#>
function Get-VMDiskAndRDM {
    param(
        ## name pattern of the VM guest for which to get info
        [parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$vmName_str = "myVM",
        ## switch to specify that VMDK's datastore path should also be returned
        [switch]$ShowVMDKDatastorePath_sw
    )

    ## the cool, FaF way (using .NET View objects)
    ## get the VM object(s)
    $arrVMViewsForStorageInfo = Get-View -Viewtype VirtualMachine -Property Name, Config.Hardware.Device, Runtime.Host -Filter @{"Name" = "$vmName_str"}
    if (($arrVMViewsForStorageInfo | Measure-Object).Count -eq 0) {Write-Warning "No VirtualMachine objects found matching name pattern '$vmName_str'"; exit} ## end if

    $arrVMViewsForStorageInfo | %{
        $viewVMForStorageInfo = $_
        ## get the view of the host on which the VM currently resides
        $viewHostWithStorage = Get-View -Id $viewVMForStorageInfo.Runtime.Host -Property Config.StorageDevice.ScsiLun

        $viewVMForStorageInfo.Config.Hardware.Device | ?{$_ -is [VMware.Vim.VirtualDisk]} | %{
            $hdThisDisk = $_
            $oScsiLun = $viewHostWithStorage.Config.StorageDevice.ScsiLun | ?{$_.UUID -eq $hdThisDisk.Backing.LunUuid}
            ## the properties to return in new object
            $hshThisVMProperties = @{
                VMName = $viewVMForStorageInfo.Name
                ## the disk's "name", like "Hard disk 1"
                HardDiskName = $hdThisDisk.DeviceInfo.Label
                ## get device's SCSI controller and Unit numbers (1:0, 1:3, etc)
                ScsiId = &{$strControllerKey = $_.ControllerKey.ToString(); "{0}`:{1}" -f $strControllerKey[$strControllerKey.Length - 1], $_.Unitnumber}
                DeviceDisplayName = $oScsiLun.DisplayName
                SizeGB = [Math]::Round($_.CapacityInKB / 1MB, 0)
                ScsiCanonicalName = $oScsiLun.CanonicalName
            } ## end hsh
            ## the array of items to select for output
            $arrPropertiesToSelect = "VMName,HardDiskName,ScsiId,DeviceDisplayName,SizeGB,ScsiCanonicalName".Split(",")
            ## add property for VMDKDStorePath if desired
            if ($ShowVMDKDatastorePath_sw -eq $true) {$hshThisVMProperties["VMDKDStorePath"] = $hdThisDisk.Backing.Filename; $arrPropertiesToSelect += "VMDKDStorePath"}
            New-Object -Type PSObject -Property $hshThisVMProperties | Select $arrPropertiesToSelect
        } ## end foreach-object
    } ## end foreach-object
} ## end function

Some example usage:

PS vN:\> Get-VMDiskAndRDM -vmName myVM01 -ShowVMDKDatastorePath | ft -a

VMName HardDiskName ScsiId DeviceDisplayName SizeGB ScsiCanonicalName                    VMDKDStorePath
------ ------------ ------ ----------------- ------ -----------------                    --------------
myVM01 Hard disk 1  0:0                          50                                      [dstore0] myVM01/myVM01.vmdk
myVM01 Hard disk 2  1:0    myVM01-/data001      660 naa.60000946665554443331111111111111 [dstore0] myVM01/myVM01_1.vmdk

The disks with no values for the DeviceDisplayName or ScsiCanonicalName properties are the "regular" virtual disks, and the others are RDMs.  And, this VM has hard disks on two separate SCSI controllers.

Note:  the vmName parameter is used as a regular expression when getting the .NET View object of the given VM.  As such, one can use a pattern, and can get info on multiple VMs that share the same name pattern.

And, that is that:  some juicy disk/RDM info for VMs, and on the quick!  Thanks, Get-View, for keeping things FaF!  Enjoy

BTW:  related post, Get VM by RDM with PowerCLI:  how to get the VM that is using a particular SAN storage device as an RDM.