{"id":4803,"date":"2020-09-11T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2020-09-10T23:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T23:41:00","slug":"nimble-space-savings-estimator-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/nimble-space-savings-estimator-script","title":{"rendered":"Nimble Space Savings Estimator Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wanted to swap a new SAN for a customer and our distributor wanted us to run the <a href=\"https:\/\/saf.hpe.com\/safdesktop\/info\/findit\/index.php\">Nimble Space Savings Estimator<\/a> , to find out how big the device needed to be.\u00a0 Unlike Dell with LiveOptics tool , you have to run this across EVERY virtual machine, and run it across all drives for it to scan. I wrote a tool we could use inside BatchPatch to run this .exe from a share across all VM&#8217;s<\/p><p>This needs to be run out of hours due to heavy scanning of disk<\/p><p>[pastacode lang=&#8221;powershell&#8221; manual=&#8221;%0A%23Find%20All%20Drives%20on%20PC%20(Not%20CDRom%5CSystem%20Partition)%0A%24drives%20%3D%20Get-Volume%20%7C%20Where-Object%20%7B(%24_.FileSystemLabel%20-ne%20%22System%20Reserved%22)%20-and%20(%24_.DriveType%20-eq%20%22Fixed%22)%7D%0A%0AForeach%20(%24drive%20in%20%24drives)%0A%0A%7B%0A%23Get%20DriveLetter%0A%24drive%20%3D%20%24drive.DriveLetter%0A%26%20%22%5C%5Cshare%5CSpace%20Savings%20Estimator%5CNimbleSSE.exe%22%20%24drive%60%3A%0A%0A%7D&#8221; message=&#8221;&#8221; highlight=&#8221;&#8221; provider=&#8221;manual&#8221;\/]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wanted to swap a new SAN for a customer and our distributor wanted us to run the Nimble Space Savings Estimator , to find out how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3344,3343],"class_list":["post-4803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-nimble-space-savings-estimator","tag-nimblesse-exe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4804,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions\/4804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}