How can I register all of the VMX files found in a list of stores of data with new names

Hello-

I'm trying to find a way to search through a given list of data and each discover a warehouse. VMX file, add this machine in the inventory I want to prepend the name of the machine as something different. That is to say, instead of "Machine1", I wish it were registetred as "auto-Computer1.  So, imagine I have an empty data center with 4 warehouses of data stored in a table $arrDatastoreToInclude.  I want to loop through each of these data stores and add all the VMX files I found back in the inventory.

I know that I can use the following to get data warehouses I want:

$dsindatacenter = get-data center $DataCenterName | Get-Datastore? | {$arrDatastoreToInclude - contains $_.} Name}

But I have no idea how to analyze these data stores for the VMX files and what command to add them in the inventory.  Can anyone help?

Try the following, it is based on the script of the position that Robert mentioned.

You will need to provide a file (in $VMFolder) where unregistered virtual machines will be stored.

The Set-VM cmdlet will take care of the rename.

$DatacenterName = "MyDatacenter" $arrDatastoreToInclude = "DS1","DS2","DS3","DS4"

$dc = Get-DataCenter $DataCenterName $dsindatacenter =  Get-Datastore -Datacenter $dc | ?{$arrDatastoreToInclude -contains $_.Name}

$VMFolder = "MyFolder"
$ESXHost = Get-VMHost -Location $dc | select -First 1
foreach($Datastore in $dsindatacenter) {
    # Collect .vmx paths of registered VMs on the datastore     $registered = @{}
    Get-VM -Datastore $Datastore | %{$_.Extensiondata.LayoutEx.File | where {$_.Name -like "*.vmx"} | %{$registered.Add($_.Name,$true)}}

   # Set up Search for .VMX Files in Datastore    New-PSDrive -Name TgtDS -Location $Datastore -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root '\' | Out-Null    $unregistered = @(Get-ChildItem -Path TgtDS: -Recurse |         where {$_.FolderPath -notmatch ".snapshot" -and $_.Name -like "*.vmx" -and !$registered.ContainsKey($_.Name)})
    Remove-PSDrive -Name TgtDS
   #Register all .vmx Files as VMs on the datastore   foreach($VMXFile in $unregistered) {
        New-VM -VMFilePath $VMXFile.DatastoreFullPath -VMHost $ESXHost -Location $VMFolder |
        Set-VM -Name ("Auto-" + $_.Name)
   }
}

Unregistered virtual machines will be saved with Displayname that is present in the VMX file.

If this would cause a conflict with VM already registered, you can use the Name of the cmdlet New-VM parameter

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