Our previous backup solution had a interface which conveniently displayed which VMs had Change Block Tracking (CBT) enabled. Unfortunately, our new solution does not...
To quickly find the VMs which have CBT enabled, run the following "one-liner" against your vCenter server:
Get-VM | Get-View | Sort Name | Select Name, @{N="ChangeTrackingStatus";E={$_.Config.ChangeTrackingEnabled}} > c:\cbt.txt
Depending on how large your environment is, it may take several minutes to complete. I piped the output to a text file for documentation purposes. Here's an example of its output:
I'm a Sr. Systems Engineer at a Global Environmental Engineering company. I've been in IT since 1999 and from 2005, my focus has been VMware datacenter products. More recently, my attention has been for Microsoft Azure services. As the Global Service Owner for VMware Datacenter products, I've had the pleasure of having in-depth and hands-on experience with not only VMware products, but server, storage and networking technologies.
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