List of the files in the data store for the virtual machine

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• Looking for lists of the virtual machine running on the power of cli ESXi host

  Hello

  I want to export the virtual machine lists running on the respective host in a cluster, but it generates the error after running the command.

  Get-Host esx011 | Get - VM

  PowerCLI C:\ > esx011 get-home | Get - VM

  Get-Host: A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts arguments

  'usjacpvesx011 '.

  On line: 1 char: 1

  + esx011 get-home | Get - VM

  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidArgument: (:)) [Get-Host], ParameterBindin)

  gException

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: PositionalParameterNotFound, Microsoft.PowerShell

  . Commands.GetHostCommand

  No idea where I need to correct. I want to export to csv

  Thank you

  vm2014

  What should we not Get-VMHost?

• Replacement of a data store - migration of virtual machines

  We have a VMware ESXi 4.0 installed on a SD card and our data store is on a dedicated internal RAID array. Our data store is running out of space... what we would do is remove the old hard drives and add new - therefore, delete and re-create the matrix RAID and the data store.

  What is the best way to migrate our existing data store / VMs from the old array to a new one using vSphere or vSphere CLI? How we then re - associate VMs on the SD card with the new data store? Advice would be appreciated. Thank you very much.

  Hello

  Looks like it's a single ESXi host.

  You will need to copy/save all the contents of the data store existing to another location (external HARD drive) while all virtual machines are closed.

  Once it's done and you are sure that the copied data are intact, you can:

  -remove all virtual machines of the inventory

  -remove the data store

  -Stop the host

  -replace the HARD drive with the new

  -Launch the host and to reconfigure the new raid

  -Create the new data store in ESXi

  Copy/restore all data to the new data store

  -Browse the data store and add all the virtual machines to the inventory (create a list to make sure you get all the)

  -Start the virtual machines

  May be a good time to do an upgrade of ESXi5 as well

  Please allow points to useful/correct answers

• List not updated virtual machines after the migration of the virtual machine to a different data store

  My vSphere infrastructure 5 uses several data stores.

  Two data warehouses are associated with NFS on different NAS shares.

  I migrate VM to a data to another store.

  The navigation data store, I see that the files are moved from the old data store to the new and that no file belonging to the migrated VM still does exist on the old data store.

  If I look at the list of VMs on the old data store, I still see the old VM.

  I see it in the list of the virtual machine on the new data store as well.

  I checked that no .iso no pagefile is in the old data store.

  How can I update the list of the virtual machine on the old data store?

  Above all, how can I safely delete the old data store by ensuring that the virtual machine works very well on the new data store and I don't lose anything?

  Concerning

  Marius

  This use of data store 'Phantom' is usually observed, if the current configuration of the virtual computer points to the 'old' data store (diskette, CD-ROM) or the virtual machine contains snapshots where - at the time where tone have been created - the VM has had these references. Once the snapshots are deleted from data store 'ghost' will go away from summary of the virtual machine.

  André

• IP address on the virtual machine windows endangered endangered after the importation of the data store.

  I'm gaving a problem with the IP on windows vm disappear after having mounted the snapshot to restore. Here's what I do.

  Mount making LUNS to the esx host area

  I have eyebrows outside the data store to find the vm I want to right click and click Import the vmx file.

  Imports of the virtual machine and when I start it up I wonder if I've moved or copied the VM. I have tried both moved and copy but when I connect to the virtual machine is missing all its IP info.

  Any way to avoid the losting vm sound IP info when I import to the host from a LUN outlet?

  Hello

  Installs on the forum of the Virtual Machine and the guest operating system.

  The MAC of a virtual computer is based on the UUID/name of the virtual machine so if you are not using a static MAC (one that recognizes VMware) and it will change the IP address might also change if you are using DHCP. So I suggest to use a static MAC in the VM configuration.

  Another way is to set up the guest operating system in the virtual machine with a static IP address instead of a DHCP function.

  But if you are unable to remove the virtual machine or the copy in the virtual machine, there may be something locking these files would be an another running virtual machine. If you need to find this VM and kill him. In this case, "vmware-cmd - L" and 'vmware-cmd - l' host in question can be useful to find where the 'hidden' VM is running.  Ultimately you can use ' vm-support - x "to find a list of the virtual machines running by how the hypervisor lists. Then use 'vm-support - Z' to suspend the offending virtual machine that should unlock everything.

  Yes, the use of these commands is command line.

  However, before using these commands determine if you can find the place where life VM incriminated.

  Best regards

  Edward L. Haletky

  Host communities, VMware vExpert,

  Author: VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security,VMware ESX and ESXi in the 2nd business edition

  Podcast: the Podcast for security virtualization of resources: the virtual virtualization library

• Second data store for the shared virtual machine

  IM thinking about to migrate my existing VMWare Server 2.x to VMWare Workstation 8.

  My server is a machine selfbuild W2k8 with Core i7, 24 GB of ram, an SSD for the OS and two 500 GB HDDs. Due to performance issues an VM is placed on a separate HARD disk. I want to keep the configuration like this.

  At the time where I'm using a trial version of WS8 and may not know how to set up a second datastore for shared virtual machines on a second hard drive. Is this possible at all? Or y at - it an alternative to solve this problem? Creation of a RAID0, isn't my favorite option.

  Thanks for the reply.

  It is not implemented by using a second data store for shared virtual computers.

  Workaround solution:
  Suppose you have the original data store C:\vms and a second D:\vms

  then create a junction for each directory in D:\vms like that

  C:\vms\VM1 D:\vms\VM1 junction.exe

  C:\vms\VM2 D:\vms\VM2 junction.exe
  ....

  then the vmx files from doubleclick in C:\vms\VM1 and configure the virtual machine to share.

  On Windows 7, use mklink.exe instead
  On Linux hosts use ln

• Utility to display all the virtual machines that have ISO attached to CD

  Someone at - it a utility that will list all the virtual machines on a host or a cluster, indicating the State of the virtual CD drive?  I am trying to remove one of my nfs stores, and of course, he's busy.  It's a real pain to point and click through all the virtual machines to find one or two that have a CD with ISO attached.

  Obviously, free is better!

  Thanks for your suggestions,

  Doug

  Hello.

  Discover RVTools.

  Good luck!

• 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.

• Not possible to export a list of virtual machines that are created in the past 7, 30, 120 and 180 days since an imported csv file containing the date of creation of virtual machine

  Not possible to export a list of virtual machines that are created in the past 7, 30, 120 and 180 days since an imported csv file containing the date of creation of virtual machine. My questions is the correct statement to the variable: $VmCreated7DaysAgo: $_CreatedOn "-lt" $CDate7.

  # #SCRIPT_START

  $file = "C:\Users\Admin\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\08-18-2014\VM-Repo.csv".

  $Import = import-csv $file

  $VMCreatedLast7RDayRepoFile = "C:\Users\Admin\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\08-18-2014\Last7Days.csv".

  $start7 = (get-Date). AddMonths(-1)

  $CDate7 = $start7. ToString('MM/dd/yyyy')

  $VmCreated7DaysAgo = $Import | Select-object - property name, Powerstate, vCenter, VMHost, Cluster, file, Application, CreatedBy, CreatedOn, NumCpu, MemoryGB | Where-Object {$_.} CreatedOn - lt $CDate7} | Sort-Object CreatedOn

  $TotalVmCreated7DaysAgo = $VmCreated7DaysAgo.count

  $VmCreated7DaysAgo | Export-Csv-path $VMCreatedLast7RDayRepoFile - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  Write-Host "$TotalVmCreated7DaysAgo VMs created in 7 days" - BackgroundColor Magenta

  Invoke-Item $VMCreatedLast7RDayRepoFile

  # #SCRIPT_END

  You can use the New-Timespan cmdlet in the Where clause, it returns the time difference between 2 DateTime objects.

  An example of this cmdley

  New-TimeSpan-start (Get-Date). AddDays(-7)-end (Get-Date). Select days - ExpandProperty

  In your case, you could do

  Where {(New Timespan-démarrer ([DateTime] $_.))} CreatedOn) - end $start7). {7 days - gt}

  But beware of negative numbers.

• 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

• Script in time of latency list vm e/s and the data store the virtual machine is on

  Hello.  We have a vsphere 5.0 environment and we live a latency of IO heavy.  I'm looking for powercli script will get the latency of i/o for each virtual machine and get the data store name, to what it is now.  We will access our storage on optical fiber.  I'm trying to get a good overview of the latency of IO in a nice view in a csv file.  I found what could be a good basis to https://communities.vmware.com/thread/304827?start=0 & tstart = 0 , but I'm not sure how to get the name of the data store in the table and I think that it is written to the nfs in any case storage.  Thanks in advance for any info\advice!

  Try the next version, it includes the average latency time read/write for the virtual machine and PAHO are / s average for the virtual machine.

  Since the CSV has a row for each data store, the values for the virtual machine are repeated.

  I also added the host name

  $vmName = "VM*"
  
  $stat = "datastore.totalReadLatency.average","datastore.totalWriteLatency.average",  "datastore.numberReadAveraged.average","datastore.numberWriteAveraged.average"$entity = Get-VM -Name $vmName$start = (Get-Date).AddHours(-1)
  
  $dsTab = @{}Get-Datastore | Where {$_.Type -eq "VMFS"} | %{  $key = $_.ExtensionData.Info.Vmfs.Uuid  if(!$dsTab.ContainsKey($key)){    $dsTab.Add($key,$_.Name)  }  else{    "Datastore $($_.Name) with UUID $key already in hash table"  }}
  
  Get-Stat -Entity $entity -Stat $stat -Start $start |Group-Object -Property {$_.Entity.Name} | %{  $vmName = $_.Values[0]  $VMReadLatency = $_.Group |    where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.totalReadLatency.average"} |    Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |    Select -ExpandProperty Average  $VMWriteLatency = $_.Group |    where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.totalWriteLatency.average"} |    Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |    Select -ExpandProperty Average  $VMReadIOPSAverage = $_.Group |    where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.numberReadAveraged.average"} |    Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |    Select -ExpandProperty Average  $VMWriteIOPSAverage = $_.Group |    where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.numberWriteAveraged.average"} |    Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |    Select -ExpandProperty Average  $_.Group | Group-Object -Property Instance | %{    New-Object PSObject -Property @{      VM = $vmName      Host = $_.Group[0].Entity.Host.Name      Datastore = $dsTab[$($_.Values[0])]      Start = $start      DSReadLatencyAvg = [math]::Round(($_.Group |           where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.totalReadLatency.average"} |          Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |          Select -ExpandProperty Average),2)      DSWriteLatencyAvg = [math]::Round(($_.Group |           where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.totalWriteLatency.average"} |          Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |          Select -ExpandProperty Average),2)      VMReadLatencyAvg = [math]::Round($VMReadLatency,2)      VMWriteLatencyAvg = [math]::Round($VMWriteLatency,2)      VMReadIOPSAvg = [math]::Round($VMReadIOPSAverage,2)      VMWriteIOPSAvg = [math]::Round($VMWriteIOPSAverage,2)    }  }} | Export-Csv c:\report.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

• 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.

• Using several data stores, cannot migrate the vmx file in a data store

  I am host migration between 3.5 and 4.0, and part of the migration requires me to vmotion data to a single shared LUN data warehouses.  From there on, I import the virtual machine in 4.0 and using the script to migrate the two VM disks at different stores of data below.  The problem I have is that the configuration (vmx) file not migrated and is left on the shared storage LUNS.  Anyone knows how to go beyond this?

  The Script:

  $VMDisk = 'disk 1 '.

  $VMName = 'TestVM '.

  $TargetDS = get-Datastore - VMHost (Get-VMHost-$S.id Id) | Where-Object {$_.} Name - like "PMV"} | "" FreeSpaceMB tri-objet-descending | SELECT name - first of all 1

  $vm = get-View - ViewType VirtualMachine-filter @{"Name" = $VMName}

  foreach ($dev in $vm. Config.Hardware.Device) {if ($dev. DeviceInfo.Label - eq $vmDisk) {$diskId = $dev. Key}}

  $spec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec

  $diskspec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator

  $diskspec. Data store = (Get-Datastore-name $TargetDS.Name |) Get - View). MoRef

  $diskspec.diskId = $diskId

  $spec. Disk = @($diskspec)

  $task = get-View ($vm. RelocateVM_Task ($spec, "lowpriority"))

  OK, I think I understand your problem now.

  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
  
  $vm.Extensiondata.Config.Hardware.Device | %{
       if ($_.DeviceInfo.Label -eq "Hard disk 1"){
            $osDiskId = $_.Key
       }
       elseif($_.DeviceInfo.Label -eq "Hard disk 2"){
            $dataDiskId = $_.Key
       }
  }
  
  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
  
  $osRelocate = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator
  $osRelocate.Datastore = (Get-Datastore -Name $osDS).Extensiondata.MoRef
  $osRelocate.diskId = $osDiskId
  
  $dataRelocate = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator
  $dataRelocate.Datastore = (Get-Datastore -Name $dataDS).Extensiondata.MoRef
  $dataRelocate.diskId = $dataDiskId
  
  $spec.Disk = @($osRelocate,$dataRelocate)
  $spec.Datastore = (Get-Datastore -Name $vmxDS).Extensiondata.MoRef
  $spec.Host = $vm.Extensiondata.Summary.Runtime.Host
  
  $task = Get-View ($vm.Extensiondata.RelocateVM_Task($spec, "lowpriority"))
  while("running","queued" -contains $task.Info.State){
       $task.UpdateViewData("Info")
       sleep 5
  }
  

  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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• Copy of the file of the virtual machine to the data store

  Hello

  I downloaded 10 GB of ISO my VM 2003 SRV. Now I want to move these files to my data store, so I can mount them when necessary. So far, the only way I see is to move the files to my XP pre-installed and choose Download via the browser of data store. I use ESXI and manage via Vcenter. I have the essentials package.

  I don't know that there is a smarter way?

  TIA

  If you need copy (ISO, vmdk) files in your data warehouse, using the client data via vSphere store browser works. You could also SCP your connection to your ESXi Server files and selecting data warehouses with software like FastSCP or WinSCP.

  If this post was useful/solved your problem, please mark the points of wire and price as seem you. Thank you!

• 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/

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