Move a virtual machine to a different data store

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• 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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• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

  
  
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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.

• 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

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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.

• Size of the virtual machines on the local data store

  What is the best way to determne the (total) disk space using a virtual machine? We have several virtual machines on local data warehouses and would like to estimate roughly how much disk space to the total number of virtual machines use to caculate how much storage SAN, they will consume. Is there an 'easy' way to socket this information?

  The most accurate way would be to calculate the total space used by the virtual machine files in the data store.

  Connect to the service console

  Navigate to the vmfs volume

  Navigate to the vm folder

  -h.

  This will give you files for this particular virtual machine related to the amount of disk space used by all the vm

  Méhul

• Move a virtual machine to a different nic

  I have a host who has four NICs.  I want to separate the traffic from a virtual machine to a specific network card that is not in use now. Currently, the host has configured two vswitches. He can see the four NICs and only two have been associated with the two vswitches.

  I was thinking about adding a third switch and adding the new network adapter.  Can I add the nic to the swith and just move the server itself?

  Thanks in advance for the help,

  Edsel

  Still not sure if I understand you correctly. What you need to migrate the virtual computer to another vSwitch is:

  • create a new vSwitch with a Virtual Machine port group
  • assign an unused uplink (vmnic) to this vSwitch and connect it to a physical switch
  • Open the settings of the virtual machine and change the port in the network settings
  • change the configuration OF the virtual machine if necessary

  André

• Error when you try to move the cloudvolumes folder in a different data store

  OK, so I'm moving my App volume 2.10 cloudvolumes folder of datastoreA on vcenterA on datastoreB on vcenterB, because we want to separate us from our VDI of our basic infrastructure.

  We are able to access the two vcenters on the web client.

  I tried to just copy the folder datastoreA to datastoreB cloudvolumes and received the following error.

  Copy of the file object has already been deleted or has not been entirely created

  
  

  I've seen this error in Veeam before when moving virtual machines from a data store. The solution is to remove and readd the virtual machine in the inventory.

  
  

  Everyone tried to move the cloudvolumes folder?

  
  

  Any help would be appreciated.

  
  

  Thank you
  

  
  

  
  

  I would never move the folder because there are files that will always be accessible or are not in read/write mode.

  I suggest you copy the files from the 1 folder to another, or maybe add an additional data store to the manager Appvolumes and let the files (appstacks at least) copy automatically.

• Clone the virtual machine to the local data store

  Hi all

  I'm looking to automate a task daily (or almost) of my friends with a small script with powercli.

  I'm trying to "backup" or to clone a virtual machine, I work in a storage of one of our servers.

  The servers are managed by a 5.1 vCenter and the machine is on a shared storage.

  From time to time, I clean, stop the machine, remove all snapshots and clone the virtual machine to one of the local server as a backup storage. So I put together a small script which almost works. It works as long as the target data store is a shared storage, but not with a local storage.

  I get always an error that claims it can not access the local data store and is not a permissions problem...

  Given that I can accomplish this via the customer without problem I thought it is possible via powercli too, or I'm wrong?

  My Script up to now:

  # Variables
  $VC = "vc.domain.com" #vCenter Server
  $User = "domain\user" #User
  $Pass = 'test123' #User PW
  $VMName = 'scripttest' #VM
  $BackupSuffix = "backup" #Suffix to add the name of VM to mark this as a backup
  $VmHost = "esx2.domain.com".
  $Datastore = 'ESX2-LocalData' #Datastore
  $BackupFolder = 'Backup' #Folder the VM gets classified

  
  

  # Register cmdlets to VMware
  

  If (-not (Get-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {}

  Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

  }

  
  

  # Connect to the server

  SE connect-ViServer $VC - user $User-password $Pass

  
  

  # Remove the old clone

  $OldBackups = get - VM | WHERE {$_.} {Name: corresponds to '$VMName - $BackupSuffix'}

  If ($OldBackups - don't "")

  {

  If ($OldBackups.Count - gt 1)

  {

  Write-Host "better check! "Found several results:

  Foreach ($VM to $OldBackups)

  {

  Write-Host $VM. Name

  }

  }

  on the other

  {

  Remove-VM - VM $OldBackups - DeleteFromDisk-confirm: $false

  }

  }

  
  

  # Clone VM

  $VMInfo = get - VM $VMName | Get-View

  $CloneSpec = new-Object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec

  $CloneSpec.Snapshot = $VMInfo.Snapshot.CurrentSnaphshot

  $CloneSpec.Location = new-Object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec

  $CloneSpec.Location.Datastore = (get-Datastore-name $Datastore |) Get - View). MoRef

  $CloneSpec.Location.Transform = [Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateTransformation]: sparse

  $CloneFolder = $VMInfo.Parent

  $CloneName = "$VMName - $BackupSuffix".

  $TaskCloneID = $VMInfo.CloneVM_Task ($CloneFolder, $CloneName, $CloneSpec)

  
  

  # Check if the task is completed

  
  

  $Check = $false

  While ($Check - eq $false)

  {

  $Tasks = get-job | Select State, id | Where {$_.} State - eq "Running" - and $_. State - eq "pending"}

  ForEach ($Task in $Tasks)

  {

  If ($Task.id - eq $TaskCloneID)

  {$Check = $false}

  on the other

  {$Check = $true}

  }

  Start-Sleep 10

  }

  # Move clone to the backup folder

  Move-VM - VM '$VMName - $BackupSuffix' - Destination $BackupFolder

  
  

  # Disconnect

  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  Can you show us the complete error message you get?

  BTW, the clone step can be replaced by the New-VM cmdlet with the setting of the virtual machine.

• Clone a virtual machine to a Cluster data store

  Hello

  Really simple (hopefully), but I'm trying to write a workflow that includes the provision of a virtual computer to a cluster of data store. I'm a link to the workflow 'Clone the virtual machine, no customizations' that only accepts a store of input data.

  I hope that I am a bit stupid here and there is a simple answer?

  Thank you.

  There is no simple answer.  DRS clusters are actually a set of rules and not a real thing, you can deploy a VMDK.  I suggest to use Onyx to deploy a virtual computer to a DRS cluster and see what it generates.  If I remember correctly, it executes DRS rules to get a recommendation for where to put a VMDK fundamentally and then uses the exit in order to actually deploy the model.

  I opted to write just a simple workflow that finds the data store with the most of freespace that corresponds to a string - for example, if I have a DRS cluster named DSCluster_ugabuga, I have a lot of data stores named something like "ugabuga... ».  So you ask these storages of data and find the one which most freespace.

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

  Hello

  I have the server list in csv as VM1, VM2 40... VM40. Need to findout that those VMS resides on the host to which ESXi, data store and Cluster name using the import function. Any help on this truly appreciated.

  Thank you

  VMK

  If you change the last line of the script in:

  } | Export-CSV-path VMsReport.csv - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  then, you save the output in a .csv file called VMsReport.csv.

• Migration of VM to a different data store

  Hello

  All our Virtual Machines reside on a SAN Fibre network attached. I want to move the virtual machine to its current data store in another data store.  Last night, I decided to travel in the data store and I did a ' copy - paste ', almost 12 hours later he was still trying to copy!

  I then did a right click "Migrate" on the Virtual Machine, but get the following error:

  -vmdk is larger than the maximum size supported by the data store

  -Lack of disk space on the data store

  Then, I changed the block size to the data store but got the same error.  I walked to the store database and noticed that I have some vmdk virtual disk files that are more than 2 TB each!  Is there a way just to migrate the virtual machine and its vmdk 20 GB HARD drive on a data store different Partition?  I'm guessing that the reason why these 2 TB drives make their appearance is because they are the virtual hard drives that I added in (even if they are stored on the San)?

  I hope that makes sense!

  Thank you

  When you are migrating and choose the data store you want to migrate virtual computer worms, you can choose the extended view. Here you can choose a separate target for each vDisk. Simply choose a target for your system vdisk and leave the other disks where they are.

  Concerning