Report all VMware App Volumes Writable Volumes with low disk space

We have provided end-users with 30 GB Writable Volumes, and within the App Volumes Manager console there is an ability in the UI to see the Writable Volumes disk free under the view called – “Usage View”

The biggest challenge is if you have 1000’s of users, it’s hard to perform this activity from the UI. I have created a script that can send you the output in *.csv report on a daily/weekly basis as per your needs.

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# Get List of Wrtiable Volumes from AppVolumes Manager for free space less than 3 GB out of 30 GB
# Author - Aresh Sarkari (@askaresh)
# Version - V2.0
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# Run at the start of each script to import the credentials
$Credentials = IMPORT-CLIXML "C:\Scripts\Secure-Creds\SCred_avmgr.xml"
$RESTAPIUser = $Credentials.UserName
$RESTAPIPassword = $Credentials.GetNetworkCredential().Password


$body = @{
    username = “$RESTAPIUser"
    password = “$RESTAPIPassword”
}

Invoke-RestMethod -SessionVariable DaLogin -Method Post -Uri "https://avolmanager.askaresh.com/cv_api/sessions” -Body $body

$output = Invoke-RestMethod -WebSession $DaLogin -Method Get -Uri "https://avolmanager.askaresh.com/cv_api/writables" -ContentType "application/json"

$output.datastores.writable_volumes | Select-Object owner_name, owner_upn,total_mb, free_mb, percent_available, status | Where-Object {$_.free_mb -lt 3072}  | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Append D:\Aresh\Writableslt3gb.$(Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMddHHmm").csv

#send an email (provided the smtp server is reachable from where ever you are running this script)
$emailfrom = 'writablevolumes@askaresh.com'
$emailto = 'email1@askaresh.com', 'email2@askaresh.com' #Enter your SMTP Details
$emailsub = 'Wrtiable Volumes Size (free_mb) less than 3 GB out of 30 GB - 24 Hours'
$emailbody = 'Attached CSV File from App Volumes Manager. The attachment included the API response for all the Writable Volumes less than 3 GB of free space'
$emailattach = "D:\Aresh\Writableslt3gb.$(Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMddHHmm").csv"
$emailsmtp = 'smtp.askaresh.com'

Send-MailMessage -From $emailfrom -To $emailto -Subject $emailsub -Body $emailbody -Attachments $emailattach -Priority High -DeliveryNotificationOption OnFailure -SmtpServer $emailsmtp

GitHub – https://github.com/askaresh/scripts/blob/master/writablevolumesdiskusage

Depending upon the output, you can have your service desk get in touch with the affected end-users to clear-up disk space or provide options for further expansion.

I hope you will find this script useful to get a report for all writable volumes nearing their disk space usage. My request if you further enhance the script or make it more creative, I hope you can share it back with me?

Thanks,
Aresh Sarkari