List of virtual machines residing on the data store, ESXi and Cluster

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• 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 to move a virtual machine to a different data store, preserving its ID

  I would like to move a virtual machine to a different data store.

  Because I use 3rd party software that identifies a virtual machine by its ID of VirtualCenter, I'd like to preserve the ID, and I also want to preserve the name of the virtual computer.

  If I clone the virtual machine, I lose the ID and name.

  I can clone a second time to restore the name, but the ID is always false.

  I know that I can use vmkfstools-i to copy the entire disk.

  Is it possible to copy the entire VM?

  I am currently on ESX 3.0.2/VC 2.0.2

  The operation that I describe is available in 3.5.x/VC ESX 2.5.x

  TIA,

  -Magister

  Don't use EVER of CP to copy a VM, VMDK move/copy should be used in conjunction with vmkfstools as best practice.

  OP,

  You can manually make a copy using the CLI interface or use the VI Client and browse the data store and to copy and paste in the appropriate data and as suggested Andre store, when you switch on for the first time, you should say 'keep' when asked if you want to update the virtual machine UUID.

  Another thing, you could do, is if you've enabled for vMotion, you can actually use Storage vMotion which will migrate directly from your virtual machine to a different data store, it's less effort on your side and you can count on Andrew Kutz sVMotion plugin: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vip-svmotion/

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• How can I move virtual machines from a local data store for a new iSCSI SAN?

  Hello guys,.

  Now that we have a new iSCSI SAN market how can I tranfer all the virtual machine to a local data store for a new SAN? Can I stop the VM in the host, and then copy the DataStore files with all the info on the new volume?

  Thank you

  Pesinet

  Alternatively, you can use VMware converter or cold Migration / Storage VMotion if you have the appropriate licenses.

  Duncan

  VMware communities user moderator | VCP | VCDX

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• Create the list of virtual machines to exclude the script through .csv file?

  Hello

  I have a script that runs all day off hours to check my VMs respect some things, like having the option to 'VM tools upgrade policy' checked. The script will export a list of virtual machines that DO NOT have this option enabled and then later to fix the problem. Now, for some specific VMS, I don't want to have the option active and want to exclude them from this review. I try to add a list of these virtual machines I want to exclude from my check script of VMTools_UpgradePolicy via a .csv file containing their names. Here's what I have:

  ##############################################
  #VMTools update during the feeding cycle - report
  ##############################################
  function Report_VMTools_UpgradePolicy {}
  $list = import-Csv "C:\VMware\PowerCLI\Scripts\EXCLUDE LIST\EXCLUDE_vmtools_upgradepolicy.csv".
  foreach ($entry in $list) {$exclude = Get-VM-name $entry. Name}
  $vms = get - Vm | where {$_.} Name - not $exclude - and (Get-View-Id $_.) {ID). Config.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy - eq 'manual'} | Select name
  $vms | Export-Csv "C:\VMware\PowerCLI\Scripts\REPORTS\vmtools_upgradepolicy.csv" - NoTypeInformation
  }

  The content of the EXCLUDE_vmtools_upgradepolicy.csv is as follows:

  'Name '.
  "VM1.
  "VM2.

  "VM3.

  I try to get all the virtual machines in my environment who have the ToolsUpgradePolicy - eq 'manual' (unchecked), AND which do not match any of the names on my list of exclusions (VM1, VM2, VM3). My script so far will do what I want, except that only the last entry in my list of exclusions will take into account. VM1 and VM2 will still be reported as VMs that need to be addressed.

  I'm not sure that I am taking the right approach with this, I will continue to seek a solution for what I want, but any help would be appreciated! I prefer to make my list of exclusion to a separate file, for example "EXCLUDE_vmtools_upgradepolicy.csv", because I want that other administrators to be able to just open this .csv file and add virtual machines to this list without having to touch my scripts.

  Thank you!

  Vince

  Hi Vince,.

  It is like that I think because of your statement:

  foreach ($entry in $list) {$exclude = Get-VM-name $entry. Name} -> it
  $vms = get - Vm | where {$_.} Name - not $exclude - and (Get-View-Id $_.) {ID). Config.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy - eq 'manual'} | Select name
  $vms | Export-Csv "C:\VMware\PowerCLI\Scripts\REPORTS\vmtools_upgradepolicy.csv" - NoTypeInformation
  }

  $exclude is a variable that contains only 1 entry., that's why you see only the last element inside. It will not be an array.

  foreach ($entry in $list) {[string []]+ $exclude = Get-VM-name $entry.} Name}

  This will fill $exclude table with entries of string that will contain the names of virtual machine.

  And when you will be comparing. I think you should use

  where {$exclude - notcontains $_.} Name - and... the rest

  Kind regards

  Greg

• Move a virtual machine to a specified data store, creating thin discs

  I apologize for the very basic question.

  Can someone please provlde a working example of a command-line PowerCLI to move a given virtual machine (for example of the ' t "MY VM Sample" with spaces in the name) of a given data store (say, "Source_datastore", I should specify?) to a given data store (say, "Target_datastore") thin discs?

  Concerning

  Marius

  Get - VM "name VM | Move-VM - Datastore (Get-VMHost "HostName" |) Get - Datastore - name of the "DatastoreName") DiskStorageFormat - slim

  You could just specify the data store without having to get the VMhost initially, but if you have multiple clusters with the same name of data warehouses, he can't shoot straight.

• Cannot add to the inventory if virtual machine running on the other guests - iSCSI and VMFS5

  5.5 ESXi hosts free standalone version

  iSCSI mounts with multiple paths - relatively new unit with more modern hardware

  CHAP not used

  I'm running a few hosts in order to climb the same iSCSI data stores. The iSCSI LUN is visible and editable by all hosts. If Host1 is to map the iSCSI LUN (VMFS5) and a VM is powered, Host2 can add that VM to the inventory. It's possible with NFS iSCSI for a reason any. This is for a specific reason? Only when I turned off the virtual computer can I add it to both hosts. Other that just lock files are placed in the directory, I missed something related to the lock?

  From now on, adding new esxi hosts does not allow me to add existing virtual machine, less than the voltage first. Once again, NFS does, iSCSI, this isn't. Any ideas?

  It is not specific to ISCSI but rather to the use of VMFS. NFS has no awareness VM VMFS is and why it is not possible to do that with iSCSI / VMFS. There is a lock on the disk for each virtual machine of (race), and that's why the second host is not able to add this host to its inventory. With vSphere HA, this lock is released when a failover should occur.

• 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

• How Virtual Machines to access the data over a Fibre Channel SAN network

  Hello

  I have storage EMC SAN and HBA Qlogic card installed on a server from VSphere 5

  How do I access the LUN that I created on the SAN on a virtual machine.

  Please help step by step because I am a new on VSphere

  so the trick with rdm, is that there may be any vmfs existing on it. so even if you do not want to perform a new scan, it can be mounted in the storage. delete the vmfs partition, remove it from storage, then go to add HDD on the vm again and rdm will be is greyer. Obviously im assuming that there is no data on this lun. This operation will destroy all information contained in this logical unit number since we reformmatting it.

• How to specify the file of virtual hard disk when you create a new virtual machine using virtual hard disk on the data store?

  I'm new to PowerCLI and find quite simple, but in the documentation I read, I don't see how to use a virtual hard drive, existing on a data store when you create a new virtual machine.

  Is this simple registration on the virtual hard disk, or did I miss something?

  My current create VM is the following statement:

  New-VM

  -Name $TargetHostName -host $TargetVMCenterHost -data store $TargetVMCenterDatastore DiskMB - 20000 -MemoryMB $TargetHostMemoryMB -NumCPU $TargetHostCPUs -ID $TargetHostOS -CD -Description $TargetHostName

  Didn't notice this before, but I think that vSphere will use a backslash instead of a slash in the paths.

• PowerCLI to zip a virtual machine to a different data store...

  Hello world.

  I'm working on a matter of hobby, just to see. Anyone has ideas or examples on a path, pCLI, to solve a VM, zipper upward in its entirety in a data store is not resident and continue on? I know ghettoVCB and gVCB2, but I was curious to know if anyone has ever attempted this thing for backup VMs with pCLI?

  Thanks for any time and thoughts in that put you.

  R /.

  -abe

  
  
  INTEGRITAS!

  Abe Lister

  Just a guy who likes to virtualize

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  I've never tried it since VCB has been around and who works for what I need.

  I noticed that there is an "Export-VAPP" cmdlet in the new PowerCLI that does what you ask for vApps instead of individual virtual machines.  Bonus is that you get OVFs instead of ZIPs.

  Get-VApp myVApp | Export-VApp "c:\vapps\"
  

  If you wrap your VMS in the VAPP wrappers, you can do that easily.

• Move a virtual machine to a different data store

  I want to take data offline store.  I moved all devices that use my virtual machines which are on, but I don't see a way to configure the location of the .vmx file.  Y at - it a simple way to move it, or: where is the list of the .vmx that are associated with a host files?

  You shouldn't really do that.  But I guess you know that now.

  Simplest solution would be to right click on the vm and collect inventory, then with all the files in the right directory, open the browser of data store, do a right-click on the file vmx and go "add to the inventory.

  If meet you some strange reason questions you can re-create the VM with no disc and just add the old virtual machine disks.  Then do a sVmotion to make things cleaner.

• Require a script to the list of files with sizes on all data stores in a cluster

  Hi all

  Please be gentle, im not new to Vmware, but new to powershell/powercli and need your help.

  cli power can make or y at - it tools available that will do that for me?

  I need to generate a list of all the files of the virtual machine in all stores of data available for cluster and their sizes to go with it.

  I am mainly interested in the .log files and vmdk files, but I don't mind if it lists all.

  I don't mind how his im laid out not after anything fancy just a list of output type something like

  /

  I did some research but there is nothing I have found that it will make.

  My environment is currently esx 3.0.2 with vcenter servers. (currently being upgraded to 4)

  Lots of help thanks

  Yes, it's a 'characteristic' knowledge when using PowerCLI 4u1 against a VI 3.x environment.

  There is a way to workaround, try this

  $dsImpl = Get-Cluster  | Get-VMHost | Get-Datastore | where {$_.Type -eq "VMFS"}
  $dsImpl | % {
       $ds = $_ | Get-View
       $path = ""
       $dsBrowser = Get-View $ds.Browser
       $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostDatastoreBrowserSearchSpec
       $spec.Details = New-Object VMware.Vim.FileQueryFlags
       $spec.Details.fileSize = $true
       $spec.Details.fileType = $true
       $vmdkQry = New-Object VMware.Vim.VmDiskFileQuery
       $spec.Query = (New-Object VMware.Vim.VmDiskFileQuery),(New-Object VMware.Vim.VmLogFileQuery)
       #Workaround for vSphere 4 fileOwner bug
       if ($dsBrowser.Client.Version -eq "Vim4") {
            $spec = [http://VMware.Vim.VIConvert|http://VMware.Vim.VIConvert]::ToVim4($spec)
            $spec.details.fileOwnerSpecified = $true
            $dsBrowserMoRef = [http://VMware.Vim.VIConvert|http://VMware.Vim.VIConvert]::ToVim4($dsBrowser.MoRef);
            $taskMoRef = $dsBrowser.Client.VimService.SearchDatastoreSubFolders_Task($dsBrowserMoRef, $path, $spec)
            $result = [http://VMware.Vim.VIConvert|http://VMware.Vim.VIConvert]::ToVim($dsBrowser.WaitForTask([http://VMware.Vim.VIConvert|http://VMware.Vim.VIConvert]::ToVim($taskMoRef)))
       } else {
            $taskMoRef = $dsBrowser.SearchDatastoreSubFolders_Task($path, $spec)
            $task = Get-View $taskMoRef
            while("running","queued" -contains $task.Info.State){
                 $task.UpdateViewData("Info")
            }
            $result = $task.Info.Result
       }
  
       $result | % {
            $vmName = ([regex]::matches($_.FolderPath,"\[\w*\]\s*([^/]+)"))[0].groups[1].value
            $_.File | % {
                 New-Object PSObject -Property @{
                      DSName = $ds.Name
                      VMname = $vmName
                      FileName = $_.Path
                      FileSize = $_.FileSize
                 }
            }
       }
  } | Export-Csv "C:\File-report.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

  I have attached the script to avoid any problems with the hooks.

  And the regex expression is updated to account for the names of comments with whites.

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• Command to move a virtual machine on a different data store

  Hello

  Y at - it a command to shut down a virtual machine, it has moved to another data store and then restarted on the new store data (or 2 orders).

  THX

  You can download PowerCLI at http://www.vmware.com/go/powercli. There you can also find the documentation. PowerCLI is a snap-in for Microsoft Windows PowerShell that you can download at http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/pages/download-windows-powershell.aspx if you have not already. PowerShell is a scripting language and a shell like the window BACK. A very good book on PowerCLI is Hal Rottenberg Management of VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell TFM. And if you have any questions about PowerCLI, you can ask them at the Community's VMware PowerCLI.

  Best regards, Robert

• Migration of virtual machines from a data store, and then delete the data store?

  Hello

  I have a future deployment this month and my Director wants to build a new RAID 6 array, create a store of data with the new table and then move all the VMS to the newly created data store.

  Then he asked me to take the old data store and remove it and the available space between the deleted data store and other stores of data in our shared environment. The question is when the new raid is created and vm has migrated to the new data store, which is the best way to remove the data store empty and make sure that the space available for other data stores? Any help would be appreciated...

  Greg ~.

  If all controls are met, you can go ahead and take it apart without any problem.

  I have re-iterate below checks:

  -No virtual machine is in the data store

  -The data store is not part of the cluster data store

  -The data store is not managed by the DRS storage

  -IGCS is disabled for this data store

  -The data store is not used for vSphere HA heartbeat.

  Especially highlighted 2 controls. Please note that SIOC can be enabled on the data without SDR photo store