Another popular subject in the VMTN PowerCLI community are statistics. Quite often it’s not entirely clear to the user what is available, how the data can be extracted and how PowerShell/PowerCLI can be used to convert the raw metrics into usable reports. Before you can fully use all that is available, there are a few key concepts that you should understand. In this series I will try to explain so
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