Comments on: Upgrading to PowerCLI 4.0 Update 1 http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2009/11/27/upgrading-to-powercli-40-update-1/ Beyond the Manual, with Mike Laverick (VCI, VCP, CCI, CCEA, MCT, MCSE) Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:25:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Carter Shanklin http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2009/11/27/upgrading-to-powercli-40-update-1/comment-page-1/#comment-41547 Carter Shanklin Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:56:58 +0000 http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=1940#comment-41547 The Eager bit is not exposed via Get-HardDisk and can't be controlled via Set-HardDisk or New-HardDisk in 4.0 U1. You can get the Eager status as follows: function Is-Eager { param ($hd) $vm = Get-VM -id $hd.ParentId $vmView = $vm | get-view -property Config Write-Output ( $vmView.config.Hardware.Device | Where { $_.Backing.FileName -eq $hd.FileName } ).Backing.EagerlyScrub } And LucD has code to convert a disk to eager: http://lucd.info/?p=918 The Eager bit is not exposed via Get-HardDisk and can’t be controlled via Set-HardDisk or New-HardDisk in 4.0 U1.

You can get the Eager status as follows:
function Is-Eager {
param ($hd)

$vm = Get-VM -id $hd.ParentId
$vmView = $vm | get-view -property Config
Write-Output (
$vmView.config.Hardware.Device |
Where { $_.Backing.FileName -eq $hd.FileName }
).Backing.EagerlyScrub
}

And LucD has code to convert a disk to eager: http://lucd.info/?p=918

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