Powershell Function: Get-LogicalDisk
In this post, I will discuss Get-LogicalDisk . Get-LogicalDisk is a function that retrieves disk information from remote servers via WMI. This allows for quick and flexible reporting on storage usage and availibility. This is a bit of a departure from "SQL Server"-oriented functionality that I have been describing in recent posts. In some shops, free disk space or, more likely, the lack of it is a daily battle. Every morning, I run a script that checks for many different kinds of "negative events" that might have happened over night. A "negative event" might be a failed job, database growth or a server running low on disk space. The latter check calls Get-SQLServerList and Get-LogicalDisk to do all of the heavy work. The script is straightforward, so I'll just continue with my tradition of a brief overview with some examples. (This is a blog, after all, and not really suited to voluminous detail. FWIW, it is my opinion that detail on what a confusing p...