How to query vmware Vi to sort datastores freespaces?

[hpoo_legend]

Hello I really need an urgent help on that topic. I've tried to query vmware which suppose to get sort datastores freespaces and it names correponded names, but without any succes. I thought the query suppose to look like that:

propsType - Datastore

propsPathSet - info.name, sort-object.freesSpaceGB 

Didn't Work for me as I've said. Do you guys have any idea where I've been mistaken?

[hpoo_legend]

Of course I used Advance Search Operation to accomplish that. 

[Daniel_Linsley]

There is a sample flow called "Get Freespace on Datastores" in the VMware Virtual Infrastructure and vSphere integration that shows you how to get freespace of a datastore.

The "sort-object.freesSpaceGB" is not a valid property for the Datastore object.  Instead you'll want to specify "info.freespace".  That property will be the freespace in bytes that is available on the datastore.

Dan.

[jadda007]

how to fetch Memory/CPU hot add limit for virtual machine by using 'Advanced search' ?

[Mahmoud Ibrahim]

Hi,
I think what you try to accomplish is to get the free space in your Datastore

summary.freeSpace this will give you the free space in bytes.

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc_50/vim.Datastore.Summary.html

[Kvark]

how in additional I can get claster name where this datastore is nested? 

[Mahmoud-Ibrahim]

Hi,
The information you are looking for is located in this link
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc_50%2Fvim.Datastore.html
I assume it is Datastore.host
Regards,
Mahmoud Ibrahim

[Kvark]

Thanks! And additional question - is it posible to limit return result only for one datastore I am intresting (as for now its return for all datastores in such cluster)? (I have claster name and datastore name as input)

[FranciscoLeiria]

Did you have any answer to your question?

I also have many (MANY!) Datastores on my Infrastructure and I only need to know the freespace on a given DataStore.

I already have the datastore name, Is there a way to get the freespace without querying all the datastores?