Rename a vmdk file and move it

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• Rename the vmdk file?

  Is it possible to rename a VMDK file?

  Ive traveled to the data store and can see the vmdk file and also the - file ctk.vmdk but when I right click the option rename is gray.

  So, how do rename you?

  Thank you

  Stewart

  You can rename the vmdk and not rename the object itself, but the vmx file needs to point the the renamed disk files.  It is in this article, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002491, which I pointed out above.

  in the .vmx file, you will see something like

  scsi0:0.fileName = "OpenSUSE.vmdk"
  

  .

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• vCenter Server - rename the config files and moving datastore

  Our vCenter VMware Server (4.1.0) is a virtual machine. The vCenter Server database is stored on a SQL Server that is also a virtual machine. The configuration files for the server vCenter and file a vmdk are located on a data store and the other vmdk file is located on another data store. This isn't a problem, but the parent folders that store these files have different names and do not reflect the name of the vCenter Server VM. Also the names of configuration files are different for the vmdk file names. I would like to move and rename files vmdk my vCenter Server to another data store and all the configuration files so that the parent folder that stores all the files has the same name as my vCenter Server VM and all of the files in the folder are on behalf of my vCenter Server VM.

  What would be the best way to do this? Can I install the stand-alone converter on the vcenter Server and migrate the server? I have a vCenter Server Standard license. Thank you.

  as above, use storage vmotion if possible else, you can use vmware converter...

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• Recreate .vmx and vmdk file and merging instant discriptor

  Hi all

  I'm under ESXi 5.0 and miss me the vmx file descriptor of a particular virtual machine.

  The machine works fine until I stopped him. Off, I will not be able to restart it before I recreated the descriptor file and created a new .vmx.

  The only files that are located in the folder of the virtual machine are:

  -rw - 1 root root 23152713728 Sep 19 22:43 TS1-000001 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 0 Sep 19 22:14 TS1 - b4014f27.vswp

  -rw - 1 root root 80530636800 Sep 19 22:38 TS1 - flat hard

  -rw - 1 root root 20166422528 Sep 19 22:14 TS1_1-000001 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 107374182400 Sep 19 23:03 TS1_1 - flat hard

  -rw - 1 root root 0 Sep 19 22:09 vmx-TS1-3019984679 - 2.vswp

  I was able to recreate the disk descriptor file and attach it to a new VM created with the same characteristics as the former.

  It will start, the only problem is that the disc does not contain the latest data from the snapshot. So it is pretty useless now.

  So my question is: what steps should I follow (and when) to merge the Flash disk with a parent?

  I have a backup of the vmdk unmodified and the snapshot files listed above.

  I hope someone can point me in the right direction.

  Thanks in advance.

  Sources: lack vmx and vmware.log file and VMware KB: Re-create a missing virtual machine disk descriptor file

  Welcome to the community,

  snapshots are used in channels, i.e. you must re-create the instant string for each of the two virtual drives (see attached hard files) and make sure the .vmx file points to the latest snapshots.

  An easy way to recover would be to create a new virtual machine with the VM current name "TS1" and two virtual disks (virtual disks size doesn't really count) and create a snapshot. Then replace the hard the new virtual machine with the file descriptor files in the attachment of this post and the hard delta/flat files.

  If you want to do differently - that is with manually editing the virtual machine's .vmx file - make sure you relaod the configuration after editing the file (seehttp://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026043)

  André

• Rename the local file and automatically update remote file name has Dreamweaver?

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  That is what iCloud is for. Of course, you need an account iCloud with enough storage to hold all your files.

• How to rename a VMDK file in ESXi 3.5

  Hi all.

  I'm new on the vmware esxi server, and need help.

  I have created a server virtual windows 2003 and would like to copy the vmdkt to a new folder and then rename so that there the same as the new virtual machine that I would create.

  Any ideas?

  Concerning

  Dennis

  You can use vmkfstools.pl to the RCLI.  The command would be as

  vmkfstools.pl - Server folder2/destination.vmdk.

  The name of data store should be in brackets and you can download the vmware site RCLI - there is a windows install, installing linux or linux device.

• How can I copy only a part of a file and move it to another folder

  I have more 100 000 music files in a folder on my external hard drive. I started to copy them to another disk to save the backup, but after 8 hours of copy and before the end of the copy, the computer stops and the copy process has been interrupted.  How could I go to continue the copy process without having to start from the beginning?

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• Obsolete and instant VMDK file

  I have a stale VMDK file and a file snapshot, that I have no idea how and why it is in the directory for this virtual machine.  I checked a time now to make sure that it is not be used anywhere and is no evidence that it is used.  Under the settings, there is only one hard disk location of the data store, but there are two listed VMDK files.  There is also a 000001.vmdk file associated with this file VMDK Rassi.  I ran the command vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.get and there are no snapshots.  I also created a snapshot and then do a DELETE ALL instant mrg.  The files are still there.  What I can assue that I can manually delte these files?  Any help is appreciated.  Thank you

  OK, you should see the whole chain.

  But in this case was the only delta file (or I think that register in the first post).

  André

• Check orphaned vmdk files are not used before deleting

  Hi all

  I'm working on a site and after looking through the vSphere platform, it came to light that there are THOUSANDS (well more than 10,000) of orphaned VMDK files, it seems that there is a bug in the backup solution (you think).

  In any case I was hoping someone could help me please do you know if there is a way to confirm that a vmdk is certainly not necessary, the tools I've used to identify the orphaned VMDK are the script here practically Jason: orphaned VMDK files and RV tools (health tab).

  What I need to do now is to automate the removal of the VMDK if possible, but I need to run a test of consistency first to ensure that the files are actually orphans.

  Any help or advice greatly appreciated.

  Hello

  I can give you only a few rough concepts and advice because I do not know the details.

  First, he yells for PowerCLI, below, you will get a few commands. If you are not familiar with PowerCLI/Powershell I highly recommend to get a grip on it.

  Second, I'll assume that orphaned files = unused files. If this isn't the case, you can rename/move file instead of delete and wait as these phone calls / tickets

  Thirdly, since we will work on files on data warehouses, we will use "vmstores" PSDrive. Get-PSdrive cmdlet will give you all the readers, that you, one of them is vmstores

  C:\Windows\system32> Get-PSDrive
  
  Name           Used (GB)     Free (GB) Provider      Root                                                                                                                   CurrentLocation
  ----           ---------     --------- --------      ----                                                                                                                   ---------------
  Alias                                  Alias
  C                  52,39         44,97 FileSystem    C:\                                                                                                                   Windows\system32
  Cert                                   Certificate   \
  D                 218,60        149,80 FileSystem    D:\
  E                                      FileSystem    E:\
  Env                                    Environment
  Function                               Function
  HKCU                                   Registry      HKEY_CURRENT_USER
  HKLM                                   Registry      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
  Variable                               Variable
  vi                                     VimInventory  \LastConnectedVCenterServer
  vis                                    VimInventory  \
  vmstore                                VimDatastore  \LastConnectedVCenterServer
  vmstores                               VimDatastore  \
  WSMan                                  WSMan
  

  To get your typical data warehouse 'cd ":

  CD vmstores:\your_vcenter\your_cluster

  On each level, you can do 'ls' or 'cmd '. Tab completion works on everything in order to use it

  From now on, all depends on what you already have and what it looks like. These files have a naming pattern names containing the name of the virtual machine or other information ("backup", "tmp" etc.)? You have these names stored somewhere? In text or csv file?

  I guess you have the list of files in the text file. So much more simple method would be to be scan all data warehouses and all files. As you can imagine it is very time and resource consumption, so not recommended to all

  #we're importing filenames to variable
  $oldfiles = Get-Content your_text_file.txt
  cd vmstores:\your_vcenter\your_cluster
  $oldfiles | ForEach-Object {
  #we're recursivly looking for file stored in $_ special variable (current object)
  $deleteme = Get-ChildItem $_ -Recurse
  #deleting the file
  Remove-Item $deleteme.PSPath
  }
  

  If the file names that you already can somehow correspond directly to the VM, then we could use a more intelligent approach.

  Let's say we have the testVM001 - bak003.vmdk and VMname file is testVM001. We can remove all characters after the 9th tank and then work on it:

  #we're importing filenames to variable
  $oldfiles = Get-Content your_text_file.txt
  
  $oldfiles | ForEach-Object {
      #getting VM name
      $vmname = $_.Remove(9)
      #getting VM path
      $vmpath = (Get-VM -Name $vmname |Get-Datastore).DatastoreBrowserPath
      #combining full path
      $fullpath = $vmpath + "\" + $vmname
      cd $fullpath
      #deleting the file
      Remove-Item ./$_
  }
  

  These are simple ideas, it could be useful.

• Change the name of files and folders in data warehouses

  Is it safe while a virtual machine is running to change the name of the VMDK files and folders in a data store?

  I discovered that a VMS VMDK files have a different name for the virtual machine itself, then someone changed the name of the virtual machine after you have created the records

  I had to do it a few times, will try to document the process that I follow.  If you have many warehouses of data, then make a note of what data store, the machine is in.  The next step is to unregister the virtual machine from vCenter / ESXi

  Then, you need to enable SSH on your ESXi host

  Use Putty or something similar for you connect to the ESXi host

  Run the following commands (in italics)

  cd vmfs/volumes / that is, if the data store that contains the virtual computer is named datastore1 then you would run cd/vmfs/volumes/datastore1

  Then run ls to verify that the virtual machine file is here

  Rename the folder by using mv

  Change to the folder with cd

  Rename the nvram, vmsd, vmx and running again is to say the mv

  MV oldname.nvram newname.nvram

  MV oldname.vmsd newname.vmsd

  MV oldname.vmx newname.vmx
  

  MV 1234.hlog - oldname newname - 1234.hlog

  Rename the vmdk with vmkfstools EI oldname.vmdk newname.vmdk

  Edit the vmx with vi newname.vmx

  Replace references to oldname to newname in this file

  Register the virtual machine with the ESXi server and it should be OK

  This link gives more details and other methods VMware KB: rename a virtual machine and VMware ESXi and ESX records

• Trying to mount vmdk file copied from running server

  Hello.

  I can't mount a vmdk file in windows.

  I used the backup software Trilead VM Explorer and made a backup of the original vmdk file. Now, I want just a document from this image file, and I'm not able to mount the file using VMware Mount. See the following example of me trying to get the file. It is a copy of the original vmdk file and it is not in use, but the program it is. My guess is that when the backup is taken, the image is written as its use in and im going to this topic in the wrong way.

  C:\Program Files\VMware DiskMount Utility > vmware-mount G: "F:\Gekab-flat.vmdk."

  Impossible to mount the virtual drive. The disk can be used by a virtual machine or mounted under a different drive letter. If this is not the case, check that the disc is a virtual disk file, and the file of the disk was not courrupted.

  Is there a work around for this problem?

  Kind regards

  Tommy

  Hmm - the file seems ok for me.
  In any case – move the vmsd file in a different directory and add the file I've attached in the same directory as the flat.vmdk
  Then try to get that one.

  If it still does not - whose architecture do you use? 64 bit or 32 bit?
  try to mount with winimage - or in the case where you are using a 32-bit host try vdk.exe - see
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• Several versions of vmdk files

  Hi, hope this is the right forum for this question.

  I run a virtual machine with 4 drives virtual (in a 4.1 vSphere server), all located on the same volume (on an HP EVA 4400 SAN). Twice, the volume has become too small for this virtual machine, the virtual machine stopped and we had to increase the free capacity by moving the other virtual machines remotely and by increasing the size of this volume, until the virtual machine can be started.

  It seems now that we have 3 different versions of the vmdk files and I suspect that it's only the latest version that is active and the other two can be deleted, but I would like to get some comments on it before I do something really stupid

  An example: one of the disc is called something like:

  servername_1.VMDK,

  servername_1 - 000001.vmdk and

  servername_1 - 000002.vmdk.

  This is the last of them, as indicated in the properties of the virtual machine. I therefore intend to remove (or at least move to another location) the previous two versions of each vmdk file.

  Any commens would be appreciated!

  Hey Ke - itp,

  These file names may indicate you have snapshots for this virtual machine. Do not remove these files manually! Right-click on the virtual computer object, use the Snapshot Manager to see snapshots. Remove from this menu only.

  Good luck

  Concerning

  Franck