Change migrated VM, vmdk disk file name / reference data store

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• Copy local disk file to the data store

  No idea why this simple script does not work?

  $Datastre = get-Datastore. where {$_.} Name: like "{* such * datastore01'}"
  Get-Datastore $Datastre | New-DatastoreDrive-name of the ds
  Copy-DatastoreItem-point D:\VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.0.0-456005.iso-Destination ds:\VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.0.0-456005.iso

  DatastoreItem copy: File Upload 'D:\VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.0.0-456005.iso' failed. Error message
  : Failed to write data to the transport connection: an existing connection was to be closed by t
  remote host HE.
  On line: 1 char: 19
  + Copy-DatastoreItem < < < <-point D:\VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.0.0-456005.iso-Destination ds:\VMware-VI
  MSetup-everything - 5.0.0 - 456005.iso
  + CategoryInfo: NotSpecified: (:)) [copy-DatastoreItem], VimException)
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  tion.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.CopyDatastoreItem

  Are you sure the datastore drive is working?

  You can make a

  CD ds:

  dir

  before you actually do the DatastoreItem copy?

• HOWTO delete a VMDK to a virtual machine without actually deleting the vmdk disk file?

  How to remove a file VMDK to a virtual machine without actually deleting the vmdk disk file?

  Details:

  My perl script, I need to temporarily remove a vmdk to a virtual machine file. However I do not want the vmdk file should be removed from the virtual machine. For example, the gui vsphere provides this option to delete a virtual disk without deleting the virtual disk from the disk files.

  In my script, I use the ReconfigVM_Task to do this. This does the job, but also removes the vmdk file. How can ensure me that the vmdk file will not delete the disk?

  The code snippet is something are:

  My $devspec = VirtualDeviceConfigSpec-> new)

  device = > $device,

  #device to delete above:

  operation = > VirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation-> new ('remove'));

  Push (@$ devspec_list, $devspec);

  My $config_spec = VirtualMachineConfigSpec-> new)

  deviceChange = > $devspec_list

  );

  my $task = $template_view-> ReconfigVM_Task (spec = > $config_spec);

  would really appreciate your help

  s

  Take a look at this script: vmdkManagement.pl

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• VStorage different Motion - copy of the file on a data store vmdk

  Hi all

  Hoping that someone will be able to help with a problem I have right now.

  Configuration:

  NetApp SAN - vmfs data warehouses.

  Data for the migration store is synchronous to a recovery site.

  I planned a day to the next task to migrate a VMDK virtual machines to a non synchronous Datastore to synchronous data store.  When I arrived yesterday morning - the virtual machine has been turned on - but I couldn't access the console and migration was still sitting 89% full.

  Checked the Netapp Filer and found the copy of the snapshot is greater than the instant space on the volume.

  SnapMirror suspend and break.  Delete the copy of Netapp snapshot on the volume.  Once I had done this on the Netapp file server - virtual machine has begun to respond to ping and I was able to access the console.

  I restarted the VM Windows - to make sure everything was fine - as the date / time on the server was out of sync with the date and time - so again, I am happy that my virtual machine is now in place and running.

  Problem. : I migrated virtual disks - one both of the old data store to the new - no problems - until I'm gone make the last record and felt that there is not enough space on the data store - now it would have taken and further investigation found that the virtual disk I wanted to migrate — was already sitting on the new data store.

  Check the settings on the virtual machine shows that the file in question vmdk is still sitting on the old data store - but - I also have a copy of the vmdk - same size etc. - file sitting on the new data store.

  RVtools displays the disk on the new data as a Zombie VMDK store.

  Question: What vmdk file is the one I need to remove?  I think about the new data store - in addition, shown as a zombie in RVTools vmdk - also, shows only not the settings of the virtual machine.

  All find what vmdk file, the system uses permanently.

  Thank you very much

  Open the .vmx file and check the path to your vmdk here.

  If you can, backupo the VMDK at both ends before going any further.

  as the VC (and I hope that the .vmx), as well as RVtools indicate that the destination is a zombie. . I would lean towards this being the one to delete.

  In theory, if you use the browser to store data to try to remove a new and it's in use, you will get an error message, so if it removes OK, you should be good to continue from where you were before.

  Good luck.

• Change of name of data store

  Dear all,

  I need to understand if this is possible or not, I have a data store who have a few VM in it, if for some reason any Naming Convention I want to rename the data store, it can be done without disruption of the VM? The confusion here is from VM disk shows that the data store in 'change settings' how this will change if the data store is renamed using vCenter server.

  waiting for response.

  Thank you

  You can rename your store data without problems and with the virtual machines running on it, since vSphere using the UUID data store and not the display name.

• Find files on the data store that have been removed from inventory, but not deleted from the disk

  I have ESXi 4.1 and with vSphere Client to manage virtual machines.

  Some of my users continue to use the 'remove from inventory"rather than the option" remove disc "in vSphere when they want to delete the virtual machine.

  This leaves the computer virtual on the data store but not used. I have since removed this privilege among the offending users but I need to do a bit of cleaning.

  I have a lot of files on the data store where users have done this in recent years. Probably about 150 records but only 80 VM listed in the inventory.

  Is there a way I can output, a report showing the data of each machine store directory in inventory so that I can remove anything not on this list? ID rather not to manually check the parameters of all 80 VM in the inventory.

  Out ideal would be something like:

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  MyVmNameHere2, \MyVmDirectoryHere2\ [DataStore1]

  A great tool to discover all this and much more is RVTools

  André

• "move a file of this data store...". »

  I see a white icon in the properties of the vCenter data and store when I go over it, it reads "move a file of this data store to another location accessible to vCenter.    I wonder if I could use this icon to move a VMDK to a VM in DataStore1 file to another virtual machine to the same data store (IE DataStore1) so that the VMDK is now up to the second VM.  I think about it because I need to migrate a virtual 2003 Windows computer to a Windows 2008 VM and the second vDisk in the Windows 2003 VM is strictly a big data VMDK (about 650 GB) drive.  The data store has a capacity of 1 TB with about 250 remaining GB... so I can not copy the file, BUT if I MOVE it so would not create a vmdk duplicate file and I would not approve the data store.   Anyone know?

  There are two files associated with each virtual disk. The disk.vmdk and the disc - flat hard the disk.vmdk is just a descriptor text for the virtual disk. You can read the disk.vmdk with vi or simply use

  cat disk.vmdk
  

  It will point to the disc - flat hard. The EI vmksftools will rename two files vmdk and change the pointer in the disk.vmdk file.

  MV does not change the pointer inside the disk.vmdk

• Move the location of the VM swap file in another data store

  Hi all

  Was in a task to move the 1000 to the file location of VM swap on another data store which is newly assigned to Exchange us to the existing store database file that will be decommissioned.

  Eager to check if anyone has made movement swap of VM location of the files to a data store to another and that all measures taken to move.

  Require some VM downtime?

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  2. take a host in the cluster in maintenance mode, change the location of the VM configuration file to point to the new data store

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  I was wondering if it was possible to get the size of a particular file on a data store. It seems that this should be trivial, but I'm new to PowerCLI and I see not all the properties of size when I invoke the cmdlet:

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• Migrated virtual machine appears in the two data stores

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  Here is what happened. I've migrated a VM from A to B data store using "Migrate" in vSphere client on vCenter.

  On the vSphere client, virtual machine displays now two data warehouses. In the browser data store, the vme even appears in the two data stores. Datastore shows 20 GB to 20 GB provisioned and 0 GB to 20 GB used. B displays 20 of 20 put into service and used 20 20 GB.

  Migration seems to have succeeded. I migrated about 10 other vm and they reside only on a data store. All virtual machines are working properly. I tried to migrate the computer back to A virtual. He showed only a data store. But the problem appeared again when I migrated the vm to B. I tried to move the virtual machine back and forth between servers ESX, no difference.

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  Thank you so much in advance!

  anything mounted on the CD/DVD drive, as an ISO which can be on A Datastore?

• Unable to shrink the VMDK disk file

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  The Windows file as well as all my personal files are total about 4.7 GB.  But the VMDK file is not less 21,7 GB...

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  the other 35 showing as space vacuum

  That's the problem. The process of narrowing in VMware Workstation focuses first on the unused space on the partitions, and then shrink the VMDK file. The free space on the disc does contain not more than one partition, it will not be zero. To resolve this problem, you can temporarily create an additional NTFS partition on unused disk space.

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• How to move a single virtual disk (vmdk file) of one data store

  Hi guys,.

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  The Script:

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  $VMName = 'TestVM '.

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  I fear that in the current construction of PowerCLI, the Move-VM cmdlet does not destinations of individual data for each virtual hard disk store.

  With the RelocateVM_Task method, it is possible.

  The following script moves a guest at 3 different data warehouses:

  -the. VMX file for DS2

  -hard disk 1 for DS3

  -hard drive 2 TB DS4

  $vmName = "MyGuest"
  $vmxDS = "DS2"
  $osDS = "DS3"
  $dataDS = "DS4"
  
  $vm = Get-VM -Name $vmName
  
  $vm.Extensiondata.Config.Hardware.Device | %{
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  BTW, you can use the cmdlet Set - hard disk to a virtual disk that is specific to a data store.

  But as I understood what is not possible in your environment.

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• Fill the CSV file with the host name and the name of data store

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