Rename all the virtual machine files in the data store

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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

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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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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• Not be able to reverse engineer the data store by using technology such as postgres

  Hello
  
  When I am creating a data store for postgres using reverse engineering process he gives error jdbc.
  
  Then we created the data store manually by using the same schema logic and used in the interface and it was working fine.
  It is not possible to manually create all the data store for postgres we need in my project.
  
  Error details:
  ODI-20131: unable to retrieve a list of tables
  oracle.odi.core.exception.OdiRuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: could not load driver JDBC [org.postgresql.Driver] class
  at oracle.odi.core.datasource.provider.AbstractDataSourceProvider.configure(AbstractDataSourceProvider.java:107)
  to oracle.odi.core.DataSourceManager$ LoginTimeoutDataSourceProviderProxy.configure (DataSourceManager.java:303)
  at oracle.odi.core.DataSourceManager.createAndConfigureDataSourceProvider(DataSourceManager.java:226)
  to oracle.odi.core.DataSourceManager.access$ 0 (DataSourceManager.java:206)
  to oracle.odi.core.DataSourceManager$ 1.create(DataSourceManager.java:76)
  at org.springframework.util.CachingMapDecorator.get(CachingMapDecorator.java:152)

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• Script to list all the warehouses of data in a cluster, the virtual machines on the data store and the host of the virtual machine is on

  We have warehouses of data which are seen by more than one cluster. I need a script that will display:

  all stores of data seen by a cluster

  the virtual machines on the data store

  the host of the virtual machine is on

  the cluster the host is in

  The output I want is

  name of the store of data, the VM name, host name, the name of the Cluster

  any help would be appreciated

  Pretty sure this will do what you need:

  $report = @()
  Foreach($cluster in Get-Cluster){
      $datastores = $cluster | Get-VMHost | Get-Datastore
      foreach($datastore in $datastores){
      $vms = $datastore | Get-VM
      If ($vms.count -ge 1){
          foreach($VM in $vms){
          $object = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
                Datastore = $datastore.Name
                VM = $VM.Name
                HostName = $VM.VMhost
                Cluster = $cluster
              }
          $report += $object
          }
  
      }
      }
  }
  $report | Export-Csv C:\Temp\VMs.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

  If you only want to shared data warehouses you can then use

  $datastores = $cluster | Get-VMHost | Get-Datastore | Where {$_.Extensiondata.Summary.MultipleHostAccess -eq $True}
  

  Hope this helps

• The virtual machine files

  Hello;

  Just noticed that in my data store, there are several folders to a single virtual machine, e.g. VM-Marketing, it also has Marketing_1-VM and VM-Marketing_2.

  When I go on the 'change settings' of this virtual machine, in the hardware tab, and on the hard drive, it's going to [datastore] VM-Marketing_2/VM - Marketing.vmdk.

  Then in the General Options in the 'Options' tab, the Configuration of the VM tab is [datastore] VM-Marketing_2/VM - Marketing.vmx

  It seems that my VM it working in the VM-Marketing_2 file in the data store, what about the other two?, this virtual machine, it is quite heavy, it has a 80 GB HARD drive and I have 3 of them if total 240 GB, so can I remove them?, is there something I can do atin the VCenter?

  The content of this files are:

  VM-Marketing.

  -rw - 1 root root G 80, 11 October 2010 VM-Marketing - flat hard
  -rw - 1 root root 8.5 K 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.nvram
  -rw - 1 root root 480 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 0 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmsd
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.1 K 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmx
  -rw - 1 root root 268 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmxf
  -rw - r - r - 1 root root vmware.log K 85, 11 October 2010

  VM-Marketing_1 /.

  -rw - 1 root root G 80, 11 October 2010 VM-Marketing - flat hard

  -rw - 1 root root 8.5 K 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.nvram

  -rw - 1 root root 480 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 0 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmsd

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.0 K 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmx

  -rw - 1 root root 268 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmxf

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 70K 11 October 2010 vmware - 1.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 73K 11 October 2010 vmware - 2.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root vmware.log 73K 11 October 2010

  VM-Marketing_2 /.

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 17 37 Sep 12:37 VM-Marketing - 4db56dd6.hlog

  -rw - 1 root root 6.0 G Sep 19 08:16 VM-Marketing - 4db56dd6.vswp

  -rw - 1 root root 5.1 M Sep 19 08:16 VM-Marketing - ctk.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 80G 19 Sep 13:59 VM-Marketing - flat hard

  -rw - 1 root root 8.5 K 19 Sep 08:17 VM - Marketing.nvram

  -rw - 1 root root 568 Sep 19 08:17 VM - Marketing.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 13 Sep 07:27 VM 1.4 K - Marketing.vmsd

  root - rwxr-xr-x 1 root 3.4 K 19 Sep 13:19 VM - Marketing.vmx

  -rw - 1 root root 268 Sep 19 13:19 VM - Marketing.vmxf

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 245K 7 September 08:52 vmware - 20.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 155K 17 Sep 12:32 vmware - 21.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 133K 17 Sep 12:37 vmware - 22.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 128K Sep 19 07:52 vmware - 23.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 61K 19 Sep 07:56 vmware - 24.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 61K 19 Sep 07:58 25.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 90K 19 Sep 13:20 vmware.log

  Thanks for your time...

  Welcome to the community - VM when is created ESX, it will use the name of the default computer name of directory where the virtual machine and its files will be stored - if a directory with that name already exists, it increments the directory with _1, _2 etc - so I am betting by the same VMs na, e were created before the one you have currently in production - Maybe the intention had been to delete these virtual machines, but when they have been deleted, rather than by selecting delete from the disk - remove inventory has been selected which will keep the directory structure.

• How can I change the looks of Access Infrastructure Web location for the virtual machine files?

  How can I change the looks of Access Infrastructure Web location for the virtual machine files?

  My default is set to MACHINES C:\VIRTUAL.  But I want to change it to turn to an external drive connected with an eSata cable. Can I do this?

  Hello

  Add just like a new data store.

  Login to your web access, select your host (not the virtual machines) in the left menu.

  You should see a link on the right side with "Add data store", give it a name of store and add the directory.

  Now, you can add a virtual machine to this place.

  Good luck!

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• Cannot download the files of the virtual machine for the data store

  Hello

  I get an error message "connection to the server timed out" while I'm trying to download the files from the virtual computer from the data store.

  Although the ESX and my laptop are on the same network, I get this error message.

  Please let me know if I need to take care of something.

  Thank you.

  I think that hard & .vsmp be used & locked is why you are unable to download it. Try to download the file, whereas the VMs system is turned off

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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.

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