I needed a quick way to generate a report about VAAI status for all hosts in the vCenter Server. Hence wrote a PowerCLI oneliner to get the job done:
Get-VMHost | %{ Get-AdvancedSetting -Name DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedMove -Entity $_ Get-AdvancedSetting -Name DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedInit -Entity $_ Get-AdvancedSetting -Name VMFS3.HardwareAcceleratedLocking -Entity $_ } | Select-Object ` @{Name="Name"; Expression={$_.Entity}},` @{Name="PropertyName"; Expression={$_.Name}},` @{Name="Status"; Expression={ if($_.Value){"Enabled"} else{"Disabled"}}}
In case you are not aware of what VAAI is read about it here at KB#1021976.
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