consolidate all Linked Clones

[vMarkusK1985]

Hello,

I need to move away a whole vCD Provider VDC and its OrgVDC's from Fast Provisioning to Full VMs. So I changed all OrgVDC's and tried to consolidate all Linked Clones with my PowerCLI Script:

# Consolidate VMs
$vms = Get-OrgVdc | Get-CIVM | where {$_.ExtensionData.VCloudExtension.any.VirtualDisksMaxChainLength -ge 1} | Get-CIView
$vms_Success = @()
$vms_Failed = @()
Foreach ($vm in $vms) { 
    Write-Output "Processing VM: $($VM.name)"
    try { 
        $task = $vm.Consolidate_Task()
        Start-Sleep 1
        while ((Get-Task -Id $task.Id).State -ne "Success" ) {
            Write-Output "$($vm.name) - Percent: $((Get-Task -Id $task.Id).PercentComplete) / State: $((Get-Task -Id $task.Id).State)" 
            Start-Sleep 1
            }
        $vms_Success += $vm 
        } catch { 
            Write-Output "      $($vm.name) Failed!"
            $vms_Failed += $vm
            }  
 } 

But consolidation via vCD API is ony possible for VMs in State 8 (POWERED_OFF ) and 3 (SUSPENDED). Most of the VMs are in State 4 (POWERED_ON), there is no consolidation possible...

Any workaround or recommendation how to handle that situation?

[GScully42]

I do it the old VM way on my cloud.

$vms = Get-DatastoreCluster  -Name superCluster | get-vm

foreach ($vm in $vms)

{

    $vm.ExtensionData.ConsolidateVMDisks()

}