And apparently you will have to copy paste this to get it to be read easier? Attempt again:

define where we will save our performance metrics.

$outputFile = "C:\Users\sloanejm-p\desktop\omg.csv"

define a new Powershell credential and log into vCenter with the credentials

$creds = Get-Credential $vCenter = Connect-VIServer rsrcnvc601hr -Credential $creds -SaveCredentials

define our vCenter service instance and performance manager.

https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/converter-sdk/conv43_apireference/vim.ServiceInstance.html

$serviceInstance = Get-View ServiceInstance -Server $vCenter $perfMgr = Get-View $serviceInstance.Content.PerfManager -Server $vCenter

get all available performance counters

$counters = $perfMgr.PerfCounter

create an array where we will store each of our custom objects that will contain the information that we want.

$metrics = @()

foreach ($counter in $counters) {

create a custom Powershell object and define attributes such as the performance metric's name, rollup type, stat level, summary, etc

$metric = New-Object System.Object $metric | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name GroupKey -value $counter.GroupInfo.Key $metric | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name NameKey -value $counter.NameInfo.Key $metric | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Rolluptype -value $counter.RollupType $metric | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Level -value $counter.Level $metric | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name FullName -value "$($counter.GroupInfo.Key).$($counter.NameInfo.Key).$($counter.RollupType)" $metric | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Summary -value $counter.NameInfo.Summary

add the custom object to our array

$metrics += $metric }

each metric object will look simliar to the following. We can use a select command to gather which attributes we want and export them to a CSV file.

GroupKey : vsanDomObj

NameKey : writeAvgLatency

Rolluptype : average

Level : 4

FullName : vsanDomObj.writeAvgLatency.average

Summary : Average write latency in ms

$metrics | select fullname, level, summary | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation $outputFile