Hyper-V Get Snapshot checkpoint file sizes on Cluster Shared Volumes with PowerShell

Ivo Beerens
Date : September 17, 2013
Categories : hyper-v ,PowerShell ,scvmm
Tags : hyper-v-2 ,PowerShell ,scvmm

During a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Health Check I needed to know the snapshot file sizes for the all the snapshots on the Clustered Shared Volumes (CSVs). The Get-VMCheckpoint Cmdlet does not report the snapshot size. So I create a PowerShell one-liner that displays the following information:

Location of the snapshot file
Date and time that the snapshot file was created
Last write access time of the snapshot file
File size in MBs

The PowerShell one-liner is executed from a Hyper-V 2012 host that has access to all the Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs).

Get-ChildItem C:\ClusterStorage\ * -include *.avhd -recurse  | Select-Object Fullname,CreationTime,LastWriteTime,@{"Name"="Size (MB)"; "Expression"={[int]($_.Length/1mb)}} | Out-GridView

This PowerShell one-liner produces the following output: