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• delete/move the file to the data store

  Hello guys, it is possible to obtain a report of these events by using script?

  Thank you very much.

  Are you by any chance runnign against Virtual Center 2.5 and/or ESX 3.5?

  Events in the data store are introduced with API 4.i which means vCenter 4 and ESX (i) 4.

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• 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.

• 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

• Can I remove this data store?

  Hello guys,.

  I free up space in a storage, and for that to work correctly, I followed the following steps:

  1. I created a new data store in other containers for storage.

  2 - I did a migration of storage of the old data store to the new.

  3 - remove the old VMDATA.

  At this point, I glued, because the old data store is not empty... West a strange folder inside, but I don't know if I can remove it, as you can see in the image below.

  

  The question is: can I remove this data store? The showing on the photo, UID is the same UID of the LUN I want deleted.

  I use VMWARE ESXi 5.1 Enterprise Edition Plus.

  Kind regards

  Roberto

  files and folder in dotted lines are normally for the metadata of the data store itself.

  so, you can delete the data without any problem store.

  BTW. If you delete a data store and it is still used by a virtual machine the delet-job will be cancelled. There is a small security bit set

• 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

• How to move a single virtual disk (vmdk file) of one data store

  Hi guys,.

  I have a VM with 4 virtual disks (for example, 1.vmdk, 2.vmdk, 3.vmdk and 4.vmdk) all located on a SAN volume (e.g., SANVOL03). How can I move one of the virtual disks (for example, 3.vmdk) of its current volume of SAN to another (e.g. from SANVOL03 to SANVOL04) without turning off the virtual machine? It's vsphere 4.1

  Detach the VMDK virtual machine and move it manually on the desired data store.

• Change migrated VM, vmdk disk file name / reference data store

  Hi all

  I'm trying to migrate a large number of virtual machines between physical datacenters (using SAN as the migration of mirroring method).

  The problem I encountered is that the operating system and data vmdk is localized on different data for each virtual computer warehouses. When break us the mirror and enter the VMX to the new location, the VMX file is a reference to the old path to the VMDK files (ie: the old data store in the center of source data). Only the VMDK files located in the same folder as the VMX file appear correctly in the vSphere - other client appears with the size of '0 GB' - as vSphere can't find referenced vmdk files.

  I don't want to update the VMX files manually, of course that's why I'm here. :-) But I struggled to find a way to update the hard drive using PowerCLI vmdk file name.

  I have to resort to pure PowerShell and update the file vmx in this way?

  I read all the blogs on the updating of the vmx files - but they have all shown to day extension data "extraconfig". for example:

  http://blogs.VMware.com/vipowershell/2008/09/changing-VMX-fi.html

  This extraconfig does not include the lines in the VMX file that specify the vmdk file name. for example:

  scsi0:1.filename = ' / vmfs/volumes/abcdefgh-503544b2-e46c-d41234567890/myVmName/myVmName_1.vmdk '.

  Ideally, I would have liked to use the command set-hard drive - unfortunately this is actually trying to move the non-existent vmdk to the new data store that I specify - rather than just update the baseline data store.

  I hope someone here can tell me an effective solution - without having to read in the vmx files and edit them using PowerShell.

  Oh, and I wrote a script to print the list of VMDK files attached to each virtual machine (in the datacenter from source before you remove migrated VMs)- so I have my CSV entry ready for use with a viable solution.

  Any help much appreciated!

  Thank you

  FaTony

  If you have the list with the VMDK from the source, and you know how to translate those paths to the new location, you should be able to use the Remove-hard drive and the hard drive New cmdlets.

  Have you tried that?

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

  Hello

  I'm working on a backup and restore application, and when I want to restore a virtual disk, I want to rename the vmdk and flat file and copyFile since the temporary data store operation. So, is it possible to rename the files using an API? So that if the operation fails in the Middle, I can at least get back the old files.

  Thank you

  Daniele.

  For the management of the core files, you'll want to use the File Manager and the method will be the task of MoveDatastoreFile(_), similar to that of the mv Linux where you can "move" the file or "Rename" the file.

  VMware has a utility of vCLI called vivid that implements this, here are a few examples of what it can do - http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/esx_3i_rcli/vifs.php

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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 use the command to move the machine to a data store in another data store in WTT(Windows Test Technology) Atlas (2.7)?

  I searched doc help WTT Atlas, just found this: "the MoveMachine command allows users to move client computers between the basins of the machine. This command assumes that the user has permissions of correction to carry out operations and generates an error if this is not the case. "

  Note: this command just explain machine displacement between the watersheds of the machine instead of the data store.

  This issue is beyond the scope of this site (for consumers) and to be sure, you get the best (and fastest) reply, we have to ask either on Technet (for IT Pro) or MSDN (for developers)

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• 0 blocks free PTR - cannot create new files on the data store

  We have been experiencing problems trying to power on virtual machines. When attempting to power on virtual machines, we see the error "cannot extend the pagefile from 0 KB to 2097152 KB".

  We checked the .vswp file are created in the folder of the Virtual Machine on the data store. Connection to the ESXi host, we have seen the following in vmkernel.log error message:

  (2016 01-16 T 21: 19:40.556Z cpu1:4971732) WARNING: Res3: 6984: "freenas-6-ds": [rt 3] No. Space - has not found enough resources after the second pass! (requis_:_1,_trouvé_:_0) 2016-01 - 16 T 21: 19:40.556Z cpu1:4971732) Res3: 6985: "freenas-6-ds": [rt 3] resources t 0, e 0, PN 16, BM 0, b 0, RCs u 0, i 0, 4031 nf, pe 0, 0 2016-01-16 T 21 oe: 19:40.556Z cpu1:4971732) WARNING: SwapExtend: 683: impossible to extend the pagefile from 0 KB to 2097152 KB.

  This was surprising given that we have about 14 TB of space available on the data store:

  [root@clueless:~] df h

  Size of filesystem used available use % mounted on

  VMFS-5 20.0 T 5.4 T 14.6 T/vmfs/volumes/freenas-six-ds 27%

  However, when we use "dd" to write a 20 GB file, we would get "no space left on device:

  [root@clueless:/vmfs/volumes/55a00d31-3dc0f02c-9803-025056000040/deleteme] dd if = / dev/urandom of = deleteme bs = 1024 count = 2024000

  DD: writing "deleteme": no space is available on the device

  263734 + 0 records in

  out 263733 + 0 reviews

  [root@clueless:/vmfs/volumes/55a00d31-3dc0f02c-9803-025056000040/deleteme] ls - lh deleteme

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 19 Jan 255,1 M 01:02 deleteme

  We checked that we have free inodes:

  The ramdisk name system include in reserved Coredumps used Maximum reserved free use pic free maximum allocated Inodes used Inodes Inodes Mount Point

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

  root of true true 32768 KiB 32768 KiB KiB KiB 99% 99% 9472 4096 3575 176 176.

  true true etc 28672 KiB 28672 KiB 284 KiB 320 KiB 99% 99% 4096 1024 516/etc

  Choose true true 0 KiB KiB 0 KiB KiB 0 100% 0% 8 1024 8192 32768 / opt

  var true true 5120 KiB 49152 484 516 99% 90% 8192 384 379 KiB KiB KiB / var

  tmp false false 2048 KiB 262144 KiB 20 KiB 360 KiB 99% 99% 8 256 8192/tmp

  false false hostdstats KiB 310272 KiB 3076 KiB 3076 KiB 99 0% 0% 8192 32 5/var/lib/vmware/hostd/stats

  
  

  We believe that our cause is due to have 0 free blocks of PTR:

  [root@clueless:/vmfs/volumes/55a00d31-3dc0f02c-9803-025056000040] vmkfstools Pei - v 10/vmfs/volumes/freenas-six-ds.

  System file VMFS-5, 61 extending on 1 partition.

  File system label (if applicable): freenas-six-ds

  Mode: public TTY only

  Capacity 21989964120064 (blocks of files 20971264 * 1048576), 16008529051648 (15266923 blocks) prevail, max supported size of the 69201586814976 file

  Volume creation time: Fri Jul 10 18:21:37 2015

  Files (max / free): 130000/119680

  Blocks of PTR (max / free): 64512/0

  Void / blocks (max / free): 32000/28323

  The secondary blocks of Ptr (max / free): 256/256

  Drop blocks (approve/used/approve %): 0/5704341/0

  Blocks of PTR (approve/used/approve %): 64512/0/0

  Void / blocks (approve/used/approve %): 3677/0/0

  Size of volume metadata: 911048704

  UUID: 55a00d31-3dc0f02c-9803-025056000040

  Logical unit: 55a00d30-985bb532-BOI.30-025056000040

  Partitions split (on 'lvm'):

  NAA.6589cfc0000006f3a584e7c8e67a8ddd:1

  Instant native is Capable: YES

  OBJLIB-LIB: ObjLib cleaned.

  WORKER: asyncOps = 0 maxActiveOps = 0 maxPending = 0 maxCompleted = 0

  When we turn off a virtual machine, it will release 1 block of PTR and we would be able to on another VM / create the 20 GB file using "dd". Once we reached 0 free blocks of PTR, we are unable to create new files.

  Can anyone give any suggestions on how we may be able to clear the blocks PTR? We have already tried to restart all services of management on all ESXi hosts connected.

  FreeNAS is not running on a virtual machine.

  We solved the problem by finding a lot PTR blocks have been used by many of our models of virtual machine. Remove the disk models solved the problem.

• Unable to download the file to the data store

  Hello

  Can someone help me on this, I'm trying to download a file to the local data store on the esxi host, but its failure

  used as below

  $ds = get-data center 'test ' | Get-file "CISCO UCS B200 M3 | Get-VMHost | Get-Datastore "datastore."

  $destination = "\".

  $source = "D:\All Cisco\ENICandFNIC readers for UCSver2.2.C\updated drivers" - this folder

  New-PSDrive-location $ds - name VimDatastore - PSProvider ds-root $destination

  Set-Location ds:------.

  Copy-DatastoreItem-point $source - Destination $destination

  What error messages you get? When I run your script, only an empty folder is performed on the data store. When you add "-recurse" it also copies child items (files and directories)

  $ds = Get-Datacenter "test" |Get-Folder "CISCO UCS B200 M3"|Get-VMHost |Get-Datastore "datastore*"
  

  $destination = "\"
  

  $source = 'D:\Test ' # -- this folder
  

  New-PSDrive -Location $ds -Name ds -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root $destination
  

  Set-Location ds:\ New-PSDrive -Location $ds -Name ds -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root $destination
  

  Copy-DatastoreItem -Item $source -Destination $destination -Recurse
  

  But it's only 1 data store, if I understand your example, you are trying to copy to different data stores. This could easily be done like this:

  $DS = Get-Datacenter "test" |Get-Folder "CISCO UCS B200 M3"|Get-VMHost |Get-Datastore "datastore*" | select name,DatastoreBrowserPath
  

  $source = 'D:\Test ' # -- this folder
  

   foreach ($datastore in $ds){
  

  Copy-DatastoreItem -Item $source -Destination  $datastore.DatastoreBrowserPath -Recurse
  

  }
  

• 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