Manage Statistics and Statistics Intervals on vCenter Server

You can use the PowerCLI cmdlets to automate tasks for viewing and managing statistics for vCenter Server inventory objects.

You can modify the properties of a statistics interval and view statistics for a selected cluster.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are connected to a vCenter Server system.

Procedure

1. Increase the amount of time for which statistics of the previous day are stored.

   Set-StatInterval -Interval "past day" -StorageTimeSecs 700000

2. View the available memory metric types for the Cluster1 cluster.

   $cluster = Get-Cluster Cluster1
   $statTypes = Get-StatType -Entity $cluster -Interval "past day" -Name mem.*

3. View the cluster statistics collected for the day.

   Get-Stat -Entity $cluster -Start ([System.DateTime]::Now.AddDays(-1)) -Finish ([System.DateTime]::Now) -Stat $statTypes