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Script for Deleting a Folder with its contents from a Datastore (vSAN or VMFS )

jooshilaig — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:41:03 GMT

Hi Friends

Looking for a script to delete folders with its contents from a Datastore , I tried to do it with below Managed object , but not able to find a method that can be used for deleting a folder

Appreciate if anyone can help with it

SearchDatastoreSubFolders_Task(searchSubFolders)

Thanks

Jooshil

Re: Script for Deleting a Folder with its contents from a Datastore (vSAN or VMFS )

LucD — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:05:24 GMT

You need the FileManager for that.

Try like this, it will delete the folder and all its content.

$file = '[MyDS] TestFolder'

$dcName = 'MyDC'

$dc = Get-Datacenter -Name $dcName

$si = Get-View ServiceInstance

$fileMgr = Get-View -Id $si.Content.FileManager

$fileMgr.DeleteDatastoreFile($file, $dc.ExtensionData.MoRef)

Re: Script for Deleting a Folder with its contents from a Datastore (vSAN or VMFS )

jooshilaig — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 06:48:27 GMT

Thanks Luc

That works

Re: Script for Deleting a Folder with its contents from a Datastore (vSAN or VMFS )

jlkumar07 — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:37:01 GMT

HI LUC,

is there any script to Delete the Empty folders in Data stores.

Re: Script for Deleting a Folder with its contents from a Datastore (vSAN or VMFS )

LucD — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:50:42 GMT

This will also delete an empty folder.

Re: Script for Deleting a Folder with its contents from a Datastore (vSAN or VMFS )

jlkumar07 — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:04:30 GMT

Great, please need a script to delete the ONLY empty folders in Datastore. we don't want touch any other folders.