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... in vCloud. There's a script here to do it for vSphere. Can a similar (or entirely different, I don't care!) approach be used for vCloud?

(The underlying problem is a lot of seldom or never used VMs consuming resources on our vCloud. We'd like to find the barely-used ones and work with the creators to remove them).

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  • Does your environment have [vCenter Operations Manager](http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-operations-manager) installed? – ewwhite Oct 06 '14 at 15:24
  • I'll be honest and say I don't know (I'm a couple of steps removed from the people who need that report). Finding out.... – The Archetypal Paul Oct 06 '14 at 15:36

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A couple of quick things...

vCloud Director uses vSphere. If there's someone with vCenter access, they can probably run the PowerCLI snippet you linked.

Also, if this is an environment with vCenter Chargeback installed, you can grab some stats from there.

And finally, if you have an option for vCenter Operations Manager, it's handy to be able to glance at the Reclaimable Waste dashboard. Idle and Powered Off VMs are what you'd be looking for.

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Where Idle Virtual Machines are defined as:

Time idle: 90 % Detection based on all of the following thresholds:

  • Average CPU usage less than: 100 MHz
  • Average disk I/O usage less than: 20 KBps
  • Average network I/O usage less than: 1 KBps
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  • Thanks. "Idle and Powered Off VMs " - does that order them by date of last use? We have a LOT of VMs that are legitimately not used very often (it's for experimentation by various teams with our varied products), so just "powered off" isn't telling us too much. – The Archetypal Paul Oct 06 '14 at 16:02
  • No, it doesn't list by date of last use. – ewwhite Oct 06 '14 at 16:06