Is there an API to rename a file in a data store?

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  Iha ve a google earth kmz which is uploaded to our directory root. I am eager to see how to rename this file once it is droped in our directory. Here's what I have so far

  < cfif FileExists ("#expandpath(".") ("#/ temp.zip ') >
  He got... extract... < br / >
  < cfzip action = 'decompress' file = "#expandpath(".")" #/ temp.zip ' "
  destination = "#ExpandPath(".") #"
  Overwrite = "true" >
  < / cfzip >

  Right now the code above decompresses the file and place the KMZ in the root of the drive. I wanted to rename the file the current date as as follows RT_2010_03_17_12_00.kmz

  I have no idea how to proceed.

  would probably help you find what is the dynamics of the file name.

  the DateFormat() attribute should help you create a date string in the format to be used to rename the file.

• "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

• 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:

  MyVmNameHere 1, \MyVmDirectoryHere1\ [DataStore1]

  MyVmNameHere2, \MyVmDirectoryHere2\ [DataStore1]

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

  André

• Get the size of the file for a particular file in a data store

  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:

  PS fs:------> Get-ChildItem "somefile" * | Get-Member

  TypeName: VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.DatastoreManagement.DatastoreFolderImpl

  Name MemberType definition

  ----              ----------   ----------

  Method of ConvertToVersion T ConvertToVersion [T])

  Equals method Boolean Equals (System.Object, obj)

  GetHashCode method int GetHashCode()

  Type of the method GetType GetType()

  IsConvertableTo method bool IsConvertableTo (type toType)

  String the ToString ToString() method

  PSChildName NoteProperty System.String PSChildName = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  PSDrive NoteProperty VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Provider.DatastoreProvider.DatastoreDriveInfo PS...

  PSIsContainer NoteProperty System.Boolean PSIsContainer = True

  PSParentPath NoteProperty System.String PSParentPath=VMware.VimAutomation.Core\VimDatastore::\XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  PSPath NoteProperty System.String PSPath=VMware.VimAutomation.Core\VimDatastore::\XXXXXXXXXXXX

  PSProvider NoteProperty System.Management.Automation.ProviderInfo PSProvider=VMware.VimAutomation.Core\VimDa...

  Datastore property {get ;} VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.DatastoreManagement.Datastore data store

  DatastoreFullPath property System.String DatastoreFullPath {get ;}

  DatastoreId property System.String DatastoreId {get ;}

  FolderPath property System.String FolderPath {get ;}

  FullName property System.String FullName {get ;}

  Property ItemType ItemType of VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.DatastoreManagement.DatastoreItemType...

  System.Nullable'1 [[System.DateTime LastWriteTime, mscorlib, Version = 4.0.0.0 property, Culture = neutral, publ...

  Property System.String name {get ;}

  UID property System.String Uid {get ;}

  Faik, you must use the SDK API to find this HostDatastoreBrowser of information, i.e.

  .

  See for example Re: using SearchDatastore_Task

• 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?

  Thanks in advance a ton.

  Yes it is possible without interruption of service to virtual machines.

  1. make sure that your cluster is configured to use swap data store specified by host

  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

  3. do this for all hosts in the cluster

  When you vMotion a VM from one host to another the swap file will get moved to the new data store. Later when you take guests to the maintenance and return output mode, vMotion occurs for each computer in the cluster virtual and file is moved.

• Rename files within the data store

  Hi all

  I'm trying to rename some folders and files in my local data store.

  That's what I see in my local data store

  /

  TestBiz-(il s'agit d'une machine Virtuelle)

  . SDD.SF

  TestNav-(il s'agit d'une machine Virtuelle)

  Apps

  images

  TestBiz contains

  TestBiz01.vmdk

  TestBiz01 - 000001.vmdk

  TestBiz01.vmx

  TestBiz01.nvram

  VMware.log

  TestBiz01.vmsd

  Now my problem is the following.  The names of the two virtual machines must be lit.  TestBiz must be TestNav.  If I rename not only the record, but the files themselves who will break my servers?

  I am aware of the mixture to the top, but I don't want others in the future to get confused.

  Any help would be great

  Thanks in advance

  Welcome to the community,

  There was a current discussion on VMs rename (change the name of files and folders in data warehouses) which also contains links to some articles in the KB. However, in your case, the virtual machine has an active snapshot, and you should definitely remove the snapshot before you rename the virtual computer!

  BTW. where the virtual machine is managed in a vCenter server environment, you can automatically rename the virtual machine by changing the name of the virtual machine in the inventory of the GUI and then he migrate to another data store.

  André

• How to rename a file flat concatenation date and time, file name?

  I created a package where I run a first interface that uses a flat file to a server and load into a table of Teradata.
  
  After using the OdiFtpPut API, I used a FTP file and send to an outfit.
  
  Given that this procedure works every day, I need when FTP get concatenation destination file name, the date and time of execution.
  
  What is the best practice for this?

  using the odi APIs, you can get the date and time

  <%=odiRef.getSysDate("dd_MM_yyyy_hh_mm_ss")%>
  

  To rename, you can use the operating system command or using the command/UNIX windows and rename the file by adding the getsystdate API.

  Hope this fixes your condition

• Rename all the virtual machine files in the data store

  Hello

  We have renamed one of the name of the server of our virtual machine running on esx3.5. In addition, we have renamed this server in VC to reflect the new name of the server. Please tell us how we can rename all files in this virtual machine residing in the data store to reflect the new name of the server.

  Appreciate your quick response.

  Thanks in advance...

  You can use sVMotion and move it to another data store or migrate from cold.  Two tasks will rename the underlying set of files.

• How can I get the size of the files in a data store?

  I use the file dsbrowse.pl as a starting point for gathering information on the data stores for different scheduled reports.

  A new requirement must provide the size of each file found in a data file store.

  Someone there guides, pointers or code they can share?

  Thank you.

  All this information is available using the API of vSphere specifically: *SearchDatastoreSubFolders_Task() , which allows all types of complex queries, including a specific type of files, models, etc..

  Take a look at this script: listDatastoreFiles.pl

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  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

  repository scripts vGhetto

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  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• Error e/s download large vmdk file to the data store

  Hi, I am looking to download a large file (400 GB) vmdk to our SAN by using the method of the vsphere client browser store data but get IO error when it gets to about 270 GB. Is there a limit to how big a file can be? any other recommended method?

  Thank you

  Rob

  What is the version of VMFS (VMFS3 or VMFS5) of the data store? In the case of VMFS3 there are limitations on file size depending on the block size of the data store (for example, 1 MB block size-> ~ 256 GB).

  André

• How to list all files within a data store and sent an email...

  Hello

  I know that within a data store there of are VM, but these virtual machines are right files?

  Some might create a virtual machine, remove the inventory but do not delete the folder/VM from the data store.

  Is thre anyway to get a script to list all records, not VM. s within a data store and be able to send emails?

  Thanks for your help,

  How about something like this:

  $VIServer = "YourVIServer".

  $EmailFrom = "Sender@Email".

  $EmailTo = "Recipient@Email".

  $Subject = "email subject".

  $SMTPServer = "YourSMTPServer".

  SE connect-VIServer $VIServer

  $datastores = get-Datastore

  {Foreach ($datastore to $datastores)

  $msg = "' nFolders in Datatore:"+ $datastore. " Name + "' not n".

  New-PSDrive-location $datastore - PSProvider data store name - VimDatastore-root '-' | Out-Null

  $folders = get-ChildItem Datastore:------|? {$_. ItemType - eq "File"}

  Remove-PSDrive Datastore. Out-Null

  {Foreach ($folder in $folders)

  $msg = "' t ' + $folder. Name + "' n '.

  }

  }

  Send-MailMessage-to $EmailTo - of $EmailFrom - $msg - SmtpServer $SMTPServer body-subject $Subject

  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  This will send an email with an output similar to the following:

  Files in Datatore: local-esx100

  Test-VM

  ARandomFolder

  MoreFolders

  Files in Datatore: local-esx101

  Test-VM2

• [SRM 4.1] Configuration files on the data store separate - anything to be aware of

  Hi all

  Right almost about to deploy it now, just do a prep work behind the scenes on the storage, consolidate space provisioned but unused. One thing I noticed on the environment, is that a separate data store has been implemented for config (nvram, vmsd, vmx, vmxf) files.

  I think it was just a matter of preference at the time of installation. Are there any special requirements that I need to know about the above with SRM? I usually have all the files of the virtual machine in a data store, and the file to make relatively easy failover. But if we have several virtual machines with configs on different data warehouses, it could get a little complicated. Should I consolidate them all back first?

  Thanks for any advice in the meantime.

  Hello

  All virtual machines have their residing on this unique data store config files?

  If Yes, then you will be able to have a single protection group and thus you will only be able to failover all virtual machines, losing a granularity.

  Michael.

• ESXi 4.1 VSphere and size of the file on the data store

  Hello

  I'm new to VMWare and have been reading on maximum configuration for virtual machines and

  Warehouses of data in this forum.

  If I have a computer virtual (Server Win2K8 R2) that in the future may reach 2 TB is true while

  I need to create a data store on the SAN network with a block size of 8 MB, so it can accommodate

  the increase in the size of the virtual machine?

  What is a correlation one between the size of the VM and the VM file size?

  Example: If the Win2K8 server reaches 1 TB, the size of the VM file also to 1 TB?

  And finally, if the maximum of 2 TB is reached on the Win2K8 server how to add

  more space for my VM?

  Thank you

  VM3434

  If I have a computer virtual (Server Win2K8 R2) that in the future may reach 2 TB is true while

  I need to create a data store on the SAN network with a block size of 8 MB, so it can accommodate

  the increase in the size of the virtual machine?

  Fix

  What is a correlation one between the size of the VM and the VM file size?

  Example: If the Win2K8 server reaches 1 TB, the size of the VM file also to 1 TB?

  There are two types of vmdk (the VM disk):

  • thickness: file is allocated in advance... so in your case, the file is already a file of 2 TB
  • thin: file is dynamic and reach the size max

  See also: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10854

  And finally, if the maximum of 2 TB is reached on the Win2K8 server how to add

  more space for my VM?

  You can't... 2 TB is the max disk size.

  You can add more drives.

  André

• 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.