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Nov 17, 2009 4:20 AM by
alasdair.carn…
Afaik there is currently no VITK cmdlet that lets you do this.
But we can use the SDK method CopyDatastoreFile_Task to accomplish this task.
Note that I just added "-COPY" to the filename.
I.e. the file "ABC.vmx" becomes "ABC-COPY.vmx".
But you can of course change this
But we can use the SDK method CopyDatastoreFile_Task to accomplish this task.
$vmName = <VM-name>
$vmImpl = Get-VM $vmName
$vm = $vmImpl | Get-View
$fileMgr = Get-View FileManager
$source = $vm.Config.Files.VmPathName
$sourceDc = ($vmImpl | Get-Datacenter | Get-View).MoRef
$dest = $source.Replace(".vmx","-COPY.vmx")
$destDc = $sourceDc
$force = $false
$taskMoRef = $fileMgr.CopyDatastoreFile_Task($source,$sourceDc,$dest,$destDc, $force)
$task = Get-View -Id $taskMoRef
while($task.Info.State -eq "running" -or $task.Info.State -eq "queued"){
sleep 2
$task.UpdateViewData("Info.State")
}
Note that I just added "-COPY" to the filename.
I.e. the file "ABC.vmx" becomes "ABC-COPY.vmx".
But you can of course change this
Works Fine but i forget about the file security rights.
After a copy I loose the execute rights on this file. Can this be maintained or should I set the rights again? Is this possble ?
I'm affraid it can only be done through a SDK method. Couldn't find it maybe, a hint?
Thanks
Christof
