Hello Everyone,
I use vRops Suite-API and PowerCLI for vCenter to get data out for my day to day... sometimes I found a wealth of information on the interwebs and sometimes I couldn't find info at all..
So I started a blog last week to share the stuff that I am doing with vRops and vCenter specifically in the Capacity and Performance space....if you are interested feel free to check out my blog http://vman.ch/
Some of the scripts / examples I already have are:
vRops – suite-api – createCustomGroup
vRops – suite-api – addProperties
vRops – suite-api – createReport & downloadReport
For anyone which has ever tried to consume metric data via the Suite-API.... they know how painful it can be! one of the key script I built and which I keep building functionality into pulls multiple metrics, for multiple objects, transforms the data and push it into an XLS, it then builds in the Pivot + it generates a second tab in the XLS with information relating to the host, vm, datastore etc... This is something i use on a daily basis to provide data to customers (I will be this one will be coming soon)... something which I started with here: Help using Suite-API - getStatsOfResourcesCSV with Powershell Invoke-RestMethod
For vCenter I will also be sharing a powershell script I built to collect Inventory, relationship and metric data... this includes real time data collection using multiple jobs to collect simultaneously (also coming soon)
Cheers