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• Data store inventory and storage VMotion

  Hello

  We have a host of ESXi 4.0 U1 with vCenter 4.0 U1 environment 5.

  Having acquired a whole new NetApp FC SAN FAS2040, we are trying to gradually Storage VMotion all VMs in front of our old EMC SAN.

  However, after VM have been VMotioned of storage, they always appear in the inventory of the store of data EMC (as contained in the NetApp data store!).

  If we edit the VM, the spectacle of .vmdks as being located on the NetApp.

  Will be the client update its inventory at any time data store?  We tried the view refreshed, restart the client, vCenter services restart, restart the server vCenter - all to nothing does not.

  Thank you very much

  IR88

  PS - When you browse NetApp data warehouses, it seems to take a long v. for folders / files to appear! (get "Searching datastore... ("for a while)

  Is there anything that is attached to the virtual machines (CDROM/ISO file,...) which is still on the EMC storage?

  André

• SRM 5.8 requires me to burn the data store storage in both placeholders?

  Honestly, I'm having a nightmare of a time finding documentation on how all the pieces of 5.8 SRM relate to each other.  I try to use the VSphere vs array based replication and I deployed on two sites and "twinned" replication servers, but nothing more.

  So I'm at the point where I have to "Configure Placeholder Datastore", which States:

  You specify a placeholder for data store Site Recovery Manager use to back up virtual machines placeholder on the recovering site.

  You must configure a data store space on the two sites of the pair to establish a bidirectional protection and restore.

  Well I don't see where I could specify that if I do two-way or reprotect, however, when I go to configure the placeholder data store it lists only data warehouses that are connected to my SOURCE site.  If am only go simple failover to my protect site dealing so how do I enter my site protect data above warehouses?

  You can specify the inventory maps and data warehousing space reserved for both sites, but you must first select the desired site.

  Hope this helps,

  Daniel G.

• Combining the VM with files in the data store

  I apologize for the very basic question.

  I have a few ESXi servers and I need to associate each VM with the related directory inside the data store and each direxctory within the data with the associated directory store.

  With the command:

  SE connect-VIServer-Server 192.168.1.1 - user root - < password >

  I connect with the server.

  With the command

  Get - vm

  I get a list of all VM with the State and the amount of memory, the number of vCPU

  • How can I get path for each computer listed virtual, to the related .vmx file?
    
  • How to browse the data store, the list of the .vmx file and for each .vmx file, get the name of the associated virtual machine?
    
  • What manual download to find the emanations of the arguments of the command get-vm and qualifying?
    

  Concerning

  Marius

  The Get - VM by default displays a selection of properties.

  You can ask all the properties

  Get - VM | Select *.

  or some specific

  Get - VM | Select name, Description

  You can even access the real object of the SDK VirtualMachine

  Get - VM | Select Name,@{N="VMX; E={$_. Extensiondata.Config.Files.VmPathName}}

  PowerCLI comes with a data store provider.

  It is documented in the vSphere PowerCLI Admin Guide, which is installed with PowerCLI.

  With the provider, you can list the files .vmx on data warehouses.

  To find the name of the corresponding client, you will need to retrieve the DisplayName of the .vmx file field.

• Help with report VM (name MemoryMB NumCPU, data store, total size of the disk)

  I currently have a script (listed below) to the CR of query for each virtual computer and their allocated disks. The problem with the script is that when he meets a VM with disks on several data only stores the first data store is listed in the report. However, the total size of the disk is correct.

  Any ideas to fix this?

  $datastoreExp = @{N = "Datastore"; E = {($_ | get-datastore | select-object-1 premier).} Name}}

  $diskSizeExp = @{N = "Total disk"; E = {($_ | get-harddisk | mesure-objet-propriété CapacityKB-somme).} Sum}}

  Get - vm | Select the name MemoryMB NUmCPU, $datastoreExp, $diskSizeExp | Sort - property datastore, "Total disc | Export-Csv C:\Scripts\Reports\chargeback.csv

  I thought that was what you wanted, judging by your examples.

  In any case, no problem, the following should do the trick.

  
  $dsRegEx = [regex]"\[(\w+)\]"
  $report = @()
  get-vm | % {
       $vm = $_
      $vm.HardDisks | %{
            $row = "" | Select Name,MemoryMB,NUmCPU, Datastore, "Total Disk (Gb)"
            $row.Name = $vm.Name
            $row.MemoryMb = $vm.MemoryMb
            $row.NumCpu = $vm.NumCpu
            $row.Datastore = $dsRegEx.Match($_.Filename).Groups[1].Value
            $row.{Total Disk (Gb)} = "{0:N}" -f ($_.CapacityKB / 1Mb)
            $report += $row
       }
  }
  $report | sort -property Name, datastore,"Total Disk" |Export-Csv "C:\chargeback.csv" -noTypeInformation
  

  Since there are sometimes problems with the display of the hooks I have attached the script.

• List of virtual machines in the data store but is not registered in the inventory

  I have a perl script that can list all the virtual machines in a datasore given by using the HostDatastoreBrowser object.

  However this only back vms who are registered. I want to be able to find images that have 'removed from the inventory' users but not destroyed on the data store.

  I even reach this may by using the HostDatastorBrowser? If this is not the case, how can I achieve my goal?

  Thank you

  Hello

  You can, but you may need to put the data in a different format. It is actually more a matter of perl a matter of VI Toolkit.

  You must create the appropriate list, then use the PERL map function to evaluate an expr on the entire list. Personally I just use a foreach example statement.

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• List of virtual machines in the data store that is not in stock

  Hi guys

  PowerCLI rookie here, sorry for the stupid questions.

  I'm trying to clean up a bunch of singehost with local data warehouses. So I need a script that can display a list of files of virtual machine on a data store that is not used by VMs in the inventory. One of the problems is that the files on the data store, isn't every means, named exactly the same as the virtual machine in the inventory.

  Summer watching this, but I think the term "orphan" is "sent, in my view, it is:

  https://communities.VMware.com/thread/266913

  Also it is - this one, I think that I should be able to change it to do what I want:

  http://www.wooditwork.com/2011/08/11/adding-VMX-files-to-vCenter-inventory-with-PowerCLI-gets-even-easier/

  Any tips or hints to push me in the right direction would be appreciated.

  Please try:

  $AllFilesLocalDatastore = get-data store 'localdatastorename ' | Get-fileindatastore

  $FilesIdentifiedAsAssociatedToAllVMs = get-FilesIdentifiedAsAssociatedToAllVMs

  #The two functions above are available here http://thecrazyconsultant.com/find-orphaned-vmdk-files-workflow/

  Check the contents of the two variables for example with VGO or export-csv

  $AllFilesInESX01LocalDatastore | OGV

  Try:

  $FilesNotIdentifiedAsAssociatedToAnyVM = $AllFilesLocalDatastore | {foreach-object

  $FullPath = $_. FullPath

  If ($FilesIdentifiedAsAssociatedToAllVMs.FileName - notcontains $FullPath) {}

  Return $_

  }

  }

  $FilesNotIdentifiedAsAssociatedToAnyVM | OGV

  #The over a will contain all the files that are not identified as associated with any virtual computer

  $ProbablyOrphanedFiles = $FilesNotIdentifiedAsAssociatedToAnyVM | where {$_.} FileTypeFullName-match "VMware.Vim.Vm *"-GOLD ($_.) FileTypeFullName - eq "VMware.Vim.FileInfo" - AND ($_.) FullPath-match ".vmsd" - or $_. FullPath-match ".vmxf" - or $_. FullPath-match "aux.xml" - or $_. FullPath-match ".vswp" - GOLD ($_.) FullPath-match "hard" - AND $_. FullPath - notmatch 'ctk.vmdk') - GOLD ($_.) FullPath-match ".vmx" - AND $_. FullPath - notmatch ".vmx ~"- AND $_. FullPath - notmatch "." VMX.lck")))}

  $ProbablyOrphanedFiles | OGV

  Edit:

  Changed the name of the data store, it seems that he was not supposed to be in the first screenshot.

  Edit2:
  The first command control switch, more details in the last post in this thread

• 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

• 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

• Register VMS in vCenter inventory data store

  All of the scripts of the guru out there, Hi

  I am putting together a DR solution for our virtual machines, we currently use the IBM midsize V7000 with Remote Copy to replicate some data warehouses.

  Now I have done some extensive testing and found that, when you make a switch of PROD to the doctor there is a bit of a process to get the running virtual machine.

  1. I have to do a full sweep of the HBAs again. Under storage cards, you can see the assigned as mounted storage devices, however you should always access the storage and go the the Wizard "Add Storage" to readd the data store with the option volume resignaturing. So this part is not painful except it adds a different naming convention in the name of the data store, example a data store named prd_lun100 is named snap-5a18365a-prd_lun100 , so I have to rename the default data store.

  2. I have to go through data warehouses and add each virtual machine in the inventory which is very tedious, and the part very I need to automate.

  I tried that one line, I found here-> http://www.wooditwork.com/2011/08/11/adding-vmx-files-to-vcenter-inventory-with-powercli-gets-even-easier/

  New-VM-VMFilePath"[prd_lun100] SERVER01/SERVER01.vmx"-VMHost"VMHost01.local"

  If possible, I would like to expand on this point, in the following way:

  1 Add the warehouses of data with the correct naming convention, using the identifier for naa to the LUN or LUN ID # to automate, possibly pull this info to a CSV list.

  2. Add a lining above, but a VM list CSV, however add is a DRS rather ESXi Cluster host, if possible priority add virtual machines by a kind of Pavilion of groups in the CSV file.

  3. turn the VMs based on a priority.

  I would really really appreciate if someone can help with this, I know that probably a big ask, but scripting is not my forte and don't know where to start.

  This shouldn't be too difficult.

  Read file names from a CSV file and then checks each VMX file you will find if it is in the list.

  Something like that

  $targetVMX = Import-Csv C:\vmxnames.csv -UseCulture
  $Cluster = "LON_PROD1" $Datastores = "lonservers*" $VMFolder = "LondonAppServers" $ESXHost = Get-Cluster $Cluster | Get-VMHost | select -First 1 foreach($Datastore in Get-Datastore $Datastores) {
     # Set up Search for .VMX Files in Datastore
     $ds = Get-Datastore -Name $Datastore | %{Get-View $_.Id}
     $SearchSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostDatastoreBrowserSearchSpec   $SearchSpec.matchpattern = "*.vmx"   $dsBrowser = Get-View $ds.browser   $DatastorePath = "[" + $ds.Summary.Name + "]"   # Find all .VMX file paths in Datastore, filtering out ones with .snapshot (Useful for NetApp NFS)
     $SearchResult = $dsBrowser.SearchDatastoreSubFolders($DatastorePath, $SearchSpec) | where {$_.FolderPath -notmatch ".snapshot"} | %{$_.FolderPath + ($_.File | select Path).Path}
     #Register all .vmx Files as VMs on the datastore
     foreach($VMXFile in $SearchResult) {
       if($targetVMX -contains $VMXFile){
        New-VM -VMFilePath $VMXFile -VMHost $ESXHost -Location $Folder -RunAsync    }
     }
  }
  

• I have to put the inventory data store VMs

  I have a list of data store 5 (datastore1, datastore2,... datastore5). in this, I need to save all the .vmx to inventory files... If need a powercli script.

  Please take a look at http://www.lucd.info/2011/08/11/vmx-raiders-revisited/ to see if that helps.

  André

• Strange problem after moving from the virtual computer to a new data store

  I am migrating our VM existing (8 in total) a 'problem' RAID to a new table on a new controller and am having a strange problem. Here are the steps I took (host OS is Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS x 64):

  (1) off the power the virtual computer from the Web interface

  (2) the directories created for each virtual on the new RAID array computer (in this case a RAID 10 array on LSI 9750-8i controller)

  (3) rSync used to copy the data from RAID1 to be RAID2

  4) has created a new data store on the new RAID through the Web Server of VMWare user interface.

  (5) removed VM of the inventory through the Web, their return, added user interface then choose files .vmx on new data store on RAID2

  They have all power save fine... but three of them are not accessible on the network. I can open a console in the Web Server of VMWare user interface and they all run normally... but I can't their ping or access the respective virtual machine Web GUI. It seems quite arbitrary that those who work and those who are not. In this case... the VM that don't work is a license Autodesk, a Squid proxy server and a VM of cactus. All three of these virtual machines are 32-bit Ubuntu Server VM (two 8.0.4 and a 10.0.4)... and are the only Ubuntu VM on this host. It must be signifigant but I'm not see how.

  If I delete these three virtual machines of the inventory again and add to their original location (on the RAID1) they light up AND work normally. A consultant that we were working seemed surprised, as he had also done this experiment with some of the older VMWare products. I don't see how it would be the physical location of the files of the virtual machine. Any ideas?

  We rely on the migration to ESXi soon but in the meantime, we get these a few VM out of this RAID array problem. I'm stuck.

  Depending on the application, it may be enough to reconfigure the IP parameters (they are very probably on DHCP now) for the newly detected virtual NIC.

  André

• Renamed the VM inventory are not not in the data store?

  I created a virtual machine and then renamed from the inventory Panel.

  Later, I noticed that there is a record in the data store more with the name of the original virtual machine. When I went to rename the file to match the name of the virtual machine in the data store, I get an error that the object is not found. There are no files listed in this folder in the data store.

  The virtual machine seems to operate normally, but I can't find its files anywhere in my data store?

  Hello

  To rename a virtual computer, there are 2 steps: remove the inventory of your virtual machine and rename it on the ESX.

  • You must turn off the virtual machine.

  • Remove inventory VM concerned. You must do this because the link between VC and the file will be lost.

  • To rename on the ESX, you should know where all the files stored one. Connect you to the ESX Server with ssh. Rename the files with the correct name, and to be clean, rename the directory too.

  • Editing with vi vmdk and vmx files to change the name and path to the files of the virtual machine.

  • Once completed, the VC, browse your LUN to find your vmx file and add it to the inventory.

  It's the only way I found to properly rename a virtual machine. It's not complicated

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/822788;JSESSIONID=F44C51342768E9B02B25A12A26A4571D

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• Match each data store its Lun ID and the list of virtual machines in each data store

  Hello

  Can anyone help? I'm looking to create a report that will show each Monday name and store data to data warehouses, the list virtual machines belonging to the storage of data and the name of the VCenter at the top of the report. I tried several combinations but was more difficult to get the Monday. Any help appreciated gratefully.

  Thank you

  If you use only LUNS is an easy way to get the canonical name:

  Get-datastore. {Select-Object Name,@{Name="CanonicalName"; expression = {$_.extensiondata.info.vmfs.extent.diskname}}

  I don't understand your requirement regarding the name vCenter, but for everything else

  Get-datastore. foreach {($MyDatastore = $_)} | Get - vm | Select-Object @{Name="Datastore";expression={$MyDatastore}},@{Name="CanonicalName";expression={$MyDatastore.extensiondata.info.vmfs.extent.diskname}},Name

• How can I get the list of data stores in a cluster data store?

  How can I get the list of data stores in a cluster data store? I mean the command line option.

  Hello

  by command line, you mean PowerCLI?

  If so, you can display data with this warehouses:

  Get-DatastoreCluster-name DSClustername | Get-Datastore

  Tim

  Edit: Moved the thread to the PowerCLI community