Attached existing disk to a Vm already created

[nt29]

Hi

I didn't found how to attached a existing disk on a vm already in use with Powercli

My disk is in the datastore Vol7_Cl3 folder Vm3 and I want to attach it to the vm Vm3

thanks a lot

Nicolas

[LucD]

Use the New-Harddisk cmdlet with the DiskPath parameter.

See Example 3

[nt29]

Hi, i see the example 4, but i didn't arrive, here what i have done

Capture where my disk is:

Here what i have done:

PS C:\Users\NT.OCAP> New-HardDisk -VM $vm -DiskPath "[VD-VM1-v002] TEMP/IPEARS_1.vmdk"
New-HardDisk : 12/09/2018 09:30:27 New-HardDisk No matching datastore found.
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+ New-HardDisk -VM $vm -DiskPath "[VD-VM1-v002] TEMP/IPEARS_1.vmdk"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (:) [New-HardDisk], VimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_VirtualDeviceServiceImpl_NewVirtualHardDisk_DatastoreNotFound,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.VirtualDevice 
   .NewHardDisk

[SupreetK · Accepted solution]

Looks like there is a typo in the datastore name. Actual name is VD-VM1_v002 whereas, you have used VD-VM1-v002.

Cheers,

Supreet

[LucD]

The error message seems to state that your datastorename is not correct.

Can you check?

[nt29]

Sorry that what a typo error,

I have check it ....

Thanks a lot, it work

Nicolas

[nt29]

thanks for you command

Have a nice day

Nicolas