Copy-DatastoreItem -Recurse option for folders and child item

[Muhammedali]

Hi I'm trying to copy folder with child folder and (multiple layers) and items from my local machine to VMServer datastore

The command i'm using is :

$source_BHMTest= "E:\Testing\*"

( i even used

$source_BHMTest= "E:\Testing\*.*"

$source_BHMTest= "E:\Testing\"

)

Copy-DatastoreItem -Item $source_BHMTest -Destination DSDrive:\Test -Recurse:$true -Confirm:$false -Force

The file transfer has intermintent errors as shown in fig attached

Any explanations?

[LucD]

I normally do this as follows

$source_Dir= "C:\TestFolder\"

$datastore = Get-Datastore MyDS
New-PSDrive -Location $datastore -Name ds -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root '\'
Copy-DatastoreItem -Item $source_Dir -Destination ds:\Test -Recurse:$true -Confirm:$false -Force
Remove-PSDrive -Name ds

And this works without a problem

Are there any VIX logs created ?

Have a look in %temp%\vmware-<useraccount>

The logs start with vmware-vix or vmware-vixWrapper.

You seem to have timeout problems on the VIX connection.

Are you sure you are using the latest PowerCLI build ?

Do a

Get-PowerCLIVersion

This should return

PowerCLI Version
----------------
   VMware vSphere PowerCLI 4.1 U1 build 332441

[Muhammedali]

Hi LucD,

I checked on the version of PCLI. Its v4.1 U1 build 332441

If i try sending one big file of 400MB, that goes well

but if i send a smaller size of 100KB having many sum folders and variety of files in it. It gives me the same error.

I check the logs and have attached one too..

p.s. on my VM i have CPLI v4.1 , VIX v1.10.2 installed. there is no vsphereClient v.4.1 installed on VM

[LucD]

That's the current PowerCLI build.

That doesn't look like a Vix log.

Those normally start with something like this

Mar 05 11:35:16.688: app-15016| Log for Vix pid=7044 version=-1 build=build-255297 option=Release
Mar 05 11:35:16.688: app-15016| The process is 32-bit.
Mar 05 11:35:16.688: app-15016| Host codepage=windows-1252 encoding=windows-1252
Mar 05 11:35:16.688: app-15016| Foundry Init: setting up global state (0 threads)
Mar 05 11:35:16.704: app-15016| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogLevel = 0
Mar 05 11:35:16.704: app-15016| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixApiTraceLevel = 0
Mar 05 11:35:16.704: app-15016| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixDebugPanicOnVixAssert = 0
Mar 05 11:35:16.704: app-15016| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogRefcountOnFinalRelease = 0
Mar 05 11:35:16.704: app-15016| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: asyncOpWarningThreshold = 1000000
Mar 05 11:35:16.704: app-15016| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: enableSyncOpSelection = FALSE
Mar 05 11:35:16.704: app-15016| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: enableExternalThreadInterface = TRUE
Mar 05 11:35:16.704: app-15016| LOCALE windows-1252 -> NULL User=809 System=809

In the guest OS you only need the VMware tools.

Could indeed be a problem with the number of files and the size of the files.

Perhaps someone from the Dev Team can chime in.

[Muhammedali]

Hi LucD,

Seems so, as u mentioned, Sometimes the file(s) copy goes on smoothly, sometimes it stops (copies just a few of them) with the error as mentioned before..

If i want to copy files from the VM Server Datastore to the VM's local drive, it should be possible with the following commands :

New-PSDrive -Location (Get-Datastore -Server $MyServer -Name "SAN2") -Name DSDrive -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root '\'

#copying files from VMData Store to a VM's local folder
$src = "DSDrive:\Test\MyTest\"            # on the DataStore
$des = "C:\Files\Testing\My_Testing\"   #on the VM
Copy-DatastoreItem -Item $src -Destination $des -Recurse:$true -Confirm:$false -Force

The commands works well without any error message. $? also returns True

But on the VM, at the folder "C:\Files\Testing\My_Testing\" I dont see any copied files

[LucD]

The files will be copied to the machine where you run the script.

To copy files to/from the guest you will have to use the Copy-VMGuestFile cmdlet.