Get Datastore Capacity Activity

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Applies To: System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator

The Get Datastore Capacity activity is used in a runbook to retrieve the capacity available on a specific data store. This allows the runbook to retrieve the available capacity of a data store before cloning or creating virtual machines in the data store.

The following tables list the required and optional properties and published data for this activity.

The activity publishes all of the data from the required and optional properties into published data. Additional published data is generated based on the class that you select when you define the activity.

Get Datastore Capacity Activity Required Properties

Element Description Valid Values Look up

Datastore

The name of the data store for which to retrieve the capacity.

String

No

Get Datastore Capacity Activity Optional Properties

No optional properties are provided for this activity.

Get Datastore Capacity Activity Published Data

Name Description Value Type

Capacity

The total capacity of the data store.

Integer

Free Space

The total amount of available space.

Integer

Percent Free

The amount of available space as a percentage of the available capacity.

Integer

Configuring the Get Datastore Capacity Activity

The following procedure describes the steps required to configure a Get Datastore Capacity activity.

To configure the Get Datastore Capacity Activity

  1. From the Activities pane, drag a Get Datastore Capacity activity to the active runbook.

  2. Double-click the Get Datastore Capacity activity icon. The Properties dialog box opens.

  3. Configure the settings in the Properties tab as follows:

    1. In the Configuration section, click the ellipsis button (...), and then select the VMware vSphere server connection that you want to use for this activity. Click OK.

    2. In the Properties section, enter a value for each of the required properties and the applicable optional properties. If the property is Lookup-enabled, you can click the ellipsis (…) button next to the text box to browse for a value.

      You can also use published data to automatically populate the value of the property from the data output by a previous activity in the workflow.

  4. Click Finish.