Powershell - Total / Used / Free Disk Space

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Total / Used / Free Disk Space – Originally posted By jrussellct, 23 May 2011

jrussellct - Can anyone provide an example of gathering Total / Used / Free Disk Space using Powershell? The information is available on the "Storage Summary" page of the Compellent System Manager however; I can't seem to get the same information through Powershell.

Bill_Grau - jrussellct, Have you gotten an answer to your question yet?

jrussellct - I did - the answer was it's not possible with the Powershell command set. I'm looking for alternative solutions (perhaps publishing daily reports to a file share and parsing the reports for the information I need). Its not a great alternative, because the data won't be real time, but its something...

Jeff Johnson - You have to be careful looking at total,used, free if you are in an ESX environment. Because any storage vmotions will make that data meaningless. I know there is some industry standard vmware/compellent may adopt to be able to properly report the whitespace issue.