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Create VMware ESXiHost Inventory Diagrams with PowerShell
https://github.com/tinuwalther/psxidiag

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Create VMware ESXiHost Inventory Diagrams with PowerShell

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# PSXi



We currently have ~150 ESXi Hosts across 12 vCenters in our environemnt. Whenerver I'm done with the visualization of it, it's already wrong and I can start again. Why doesn't PowerShell do this for me? That's why I wrote this framework.



- [PSXiDiag](#psxidiag)

  - [How it works](#how-it-works)

  - [PSXi Homepage](#psxi-homepage)

  - [PSXi Summary](#psxi-summary)

  - [PSXi ESXi Inventory](#psxi-esxi-inventory)

  - [Mermaid Diagram](#mermaid-diagram)

  - [See also](#see-also)



## How it works



ScriptRunner runs scheduled PowerShell-Scripts to collect all the data of all vCenters and send it over WinRM as CSV-files to the Pode-Server. The Pode-Server has a FileWatcher where it check for new CSV-files in /pode/input.



The file should be named:

- cloud_ESXiHosts.csv

- classic_ESXiHosts.csv

- cloud_Summary.csv

- classic_Summary.csv



The content of the CSV-file will be stored in a SQLite DB in seperated tabels for Cloud and Classic. You can access over Pode.Web to the SQLite DB and get the properties of Cloud-/Classic ESXiHosts.



![PSXiHomePage](./pode/public/assets/img/PSXiPode.png)



## PSXi Homepage



This is the Homepage of the PSXi App. It shows you the status of the Modules and the SQLite Database, Tables and Views.



![PSXiHomePage Module Check](./img/PSXiHomePage1.png)

![PSXiHomePage DB and Table Check](./img/PSXiHomePage2.png)

![PSXiHomePage View Check](./img/PSXiHomePage3.png)



## PSXi Summary



In the Summary, you can see the total of vCenter, and the count of each ESXiHost versions.



![PSXiOverallSummary](./img/PSXiOverallSummary.png)

![PSXiSummaryEsxiHosts](./img/PSXiSummaryEsxiHosts.png)



## PSXi ESXi Inventory



If you click on the Group Classic and Classic ESXi Host Inventory, the first you can see is the summary of objects in this environment.



![PSXiClassicSummaryEsxiHosts](./img/PSXiClassicSummaryEsxiHosts.png)



At the next you can search for an ESXiHosts. Enter the name of the ESXiHost in the search box and press submit.



![PSXiSearchEsxiHosts](./img/PSXiSearchEsxiHosts.png)



Here you can view, add, update and remove note of an ESXiHost.



![PSXiEsyiHostsNotes1](img/PSXiEsyiHostsNotes1.png)



To add or update notes, enter the name of the ESXiHost and all Hosts of the ESXiHosts-table will be listet in the Dropdown, choose the one to edit and enter the note and press submit.



![PSXiEsyiHostsNotes2](img/PSXiEsyiHostsNotes2.png)



To delete the notes of an ESXiHost, enter the name of the ESXiHost and all Hosts of the ESXiHosts-table will be listet in the Dropdown, choose the one to remove the notes and press submit.



![PSXiEsyiHostsNotes3](img/PSXiEsyiHostsNotes3.png)



Each ESXiHosts of the Classic will be grouped by their vCenter Server.

 

![PSXiEsxInventory](./img/PSXiEsxInventory.png)



Each vCenter of the Cloud has it own tab where you can find all ESXiHosts.



![PSXivCenterTabs](./img/PSXivCenterTabs.png)



If you click at the row of an ESXiHost, all fileds of the selected ESXiHost will be showed as Sticky-note.



![PSXiEsxiHostDetails](img/PSXiEsxiHostDetails.png)



## Mermaid Diagram



For each zones, there is a Mermaid-Class-Diagram for each vCenter. 



![PSXiEsxInventory](./img/PSXiDiagramESXi.png)



The Diagram is an iFrame to another page and it will be automatically genereate, if you upload a new CSV-file into the folder where the FileWatcher is configured. This page use pode, pode.web, PSHTML and Mermaid.



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## Entity Relationship Diagrams



Possible entities are:



````mermaid

erDiagram

    classic_ESXiHosts ||--o{ View_classic_ESXiHosts : HostName

    classic_ESXiHosts {

        int ID

        string HostName

        string Version

        string HostName

        string Manufacturer

        string Model

        string vCenterServer

        string Cluster

        string PhysicalLocation

        string ConnectionState

    }

    classic_ESXiHostsNotes ||--o{ View_classic_ESXiHosts : HostName

    classic_ESXiHostsNotes {

        int ID

        string HostName

        string Notes

    }

    View_classic_ESXiHosts {

        int ID

        string HostName

        string Notes

    }

        

    classic_summary {

        int ID

        string vCenterServer

        string CountOfESXiHosts

        string CountOfVMs

    }



    cloud_ESXiHosts ||--o{ View_cloud_ESXiHosts : HostName

    cloud_ESXiHosts {

        int ID

        string HostName

        string Version

        string HostName

        string Manufacturer

        string Model

        string vCenterServer

        string Cluster

        string PhysicalLocation

        string ConnectionState

    }

    cloud_ESXiHostsNotes ||--o{ View_cloud_ESXiHosts : HostName

    cloud_ESXiHostsNotes {

        int ID

        string HostName

        string Notes

    }

    View_cloud_ESXiHosts {

        int ID

        string HostName

        string Notes

    }



    cloud_summary {

        int ID

        string vCenterServer

        string CountOfESXiHosts

        string CountOfVMs

    }

````



More entities are possible.



## See also



Web Server: [Pode](https://badgerati.github.io/Pode/)

[Pode.Web](https://badgerati.github.io/Pode.Web/)



Database: [mySQLite](https://github.com/jdhitsolutions/MySQLite)

[SQLite Tutorial](https://www.sqlitetutorial.net)



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