Check orphaned vmdk files are not used before deleting

Hi all

I'm working on a site and after looking through the vSphere platform, it came to light that there are THOUSANDS (well more than 10,000) of orphaned VMDK files, it seems that there is a bug in the backup solution (you think).

In any case I was hoping someone could help me please do you know if there is a way to confirm that a vmdk is certainly not necessary, the tools I've used to identify the orphaned VMDK are the script here practically Jason: orphaned VMDK files and RV tools (health tab).

What I need to do now is to automate the removal of the VMDK if possible, but I need to run a test of consistency first to ensure that the files are actually orphans.

Any help or advice greatly appreciated.

Hello

I can give you only a few rough concepts and advice because I do not know the details.

First, he yells for PowerCLI, below, you will get a few commands. If you are not familiar with PowerCLI/Powershell I highly recommend to get a grip on it.

Second, I'll assume that orphaned files = unused files. If this isn't the case, you can rename/move file instead of delete and wait as these phone calls / tickets

Thirdly, since we will work on files on data warehouses, we will use "vmstores" PSDrive. Get-PSdrive cmdlet will give you all the readers, that you, one of them is vmstores

C:\Windows\system32> Get-PSDrive

Name           Used (GB)     Free (GB) Provider      Root                                                                                                                   CurrentLocation
----           ---------     --------- --------      ----                                                                                                                   ---------------
Alias                                  Alias
C                  52,39         44,97 FileSystem    C:\                                                                                                                   Windows\system32
Cert                                   Certificate   \
D                 218,60        149,80 FileSystem    D:\
E                                      FileSystem    E:\
Env                                    Environment
Function                               Function
HKCU                                   Registry      HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKLM                                   Registry      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Variable                               Variable
vi                                     VimInventory  \LastConnectedVCenterServer
vis                                    VimInventory  \
vmstore                                VimDatastore  \LastConnectedVCenterServer
vmstores                               VimDatastore  \
WSMan                                  WSMan

To get your typical data warehouse 'cd ":

CD vmstores:\your_vcenter\your_cluster

On each level, you can do 'ls' or 'cmd '. Tab completion works on everything in order to use it

From now on, all depends on what you already have and what it looks like. These files have a naming pattern names containing the name of the virtual machine or other information ("backup", "tmp" etc.)? You have these names stored somewhere? In text or csv file?

I guess you have the list of files in the text file. So much more simple method would be to be scan all data warehouses and all files. As you can imagine it is very time and resource consumption, so not recommended to all

#we're importing filenames to variable
$oldfiles = Get-Content your_text_file.txt
cd vmstores:\your_vcenter\your_cluster
$oldfiles | ForEach-Object {
#we're recursivly looking for file stored in $_ special variable (current object)
$deleteme = Get-ChildItem $_ -Recurse
#deleting the file
Remove-Item $deleteme.PSPath
}

If the file names that you already can somehow correspond directly to the VM, then we could use a more intelligent approach.

Let's say we have the testVM001 - bak003.vmdk and VMname file is testVM001. We can remove all characters after the 9th tank and then work on it:

#we're importing filenames to variable
$oldfiles = Get-Content your_text_file.txt

$oldfiles | ForEach-Object {
    #getting VM name
    $vmname = $_.Remove(9)
    #getting VM path
    $vmpath = (Get-VM -Name $vmname |Get-Datastore).DatastoreBrowserPath
    #combining full path
    $fullpath = $vmpath + "\" + $vmname
    cd $fullpath
    #deleting the file
    Remove-Item ./$_
}

These are simple ideas, it could be useful.

Tags: VMware

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