Where is my datastore's address for VM's

[mwalters1]

I am trying to setup "ghettoVCBg2" and it calls for:

Defining the datastore in which the backups are stored:

Example:

my $VM_BACKUP_DATASTORE = "dlgCore-NFS-bigboi.VM-Backups";

How can I find out where my VM's are exactly being stored on my ESXi server?  I have internal harddrives in my ESXi host that have the VM's stored. 

Thank you,

Mike

[briwag]

Do you have multiple Datastores within ESXi?

It appears that it is asking for the name of the Datastore where you want to keep you backups. I believe you just give it the name of the datastore.

[bulletprooffool]

Hi Mike,

You can manually connect to your Virtual Center and click on each VM to view locations.

Alternatively, you could use something like winSCP / SSH(Putty) and browse to /vmfs/volumes/<datastorename> - to view thew folders  / paths on each Datastore - the *.vmx files are your VM config files.

Lastly (and probably easiest) you could use PowerCli with something like:

Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | %{
     New-Object PSObject -Property @{
          Name = $_.Name
          Host = (Get-View $_.Summary.Runtime.Host).Name
          Datastore = [http://system.String|http://system.String]::Join(",",($_.Storage.PerDatastoreUsage | %{Get-View $_.Datastore} | %{$_.Name}))
          Size = ($_.Storage.PerDatastoreUsage | Measure-Object -Property Committed -Sum).Sum
     }
} | Export-Csv "C:\VM-report.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture

Good luck