I was recently asked if there was a quick way to find out how many vShield Edges were out-of-date and could be upgraded in a vCloud Director environment. I didn’t know of any, so I turned to my good friend PowerCLI and came up with this:
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| # Author: Adam Rush | |
| # Created on: 2016-05-28 | |
| # Finds all upgradeable vShield Edges and exports CSV file to Desktop | |
| $reportPath = "$HOME\Desktop\upgradable-VSEs.csv" | |
| $report = @() | |
| Write-Host "Searching for all vShield Edges..." -ForegroundColor Yellow | |
| $edges = Get-View -ViewType virtualmachine -Property Name,Config -Filter @{'Config.VAppConfig.Product[0].Name'='vShield Edge'} | % { | |
| $edge = '' | Select 'Name','Version' | |
| $edge.Name = $_.Name | |
| $edge.Version = $_.config.vappconfig.product[0].version | |
| $report += $edge | |
| } | |
| $highestVersion = ($report | Sort version -Descending)[0].version | |
| Write-Host "Highest vShield Edge version: $highestVersion" -ForegroundColor Yellow | |
| Write-Host "Exporting upgradeable vShield Edges..." -ForegroundColor Yellow | |
| $upgradableVSEs = $report | Where {$_.version -lt $highestVersion} | |
| Write-Host "Saving file to: $reportPath" -ForegroundColor Yellow | |
| $upgradableVSEs | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture -Path $reportPath |
This script does assume that at least one of the vShield Edges in your environment is up-to-date, as it looks for the highest available version deployed and not the known latest version.
