How to migrate all VMDK's from one datastore to another datastore

[E4F]

How would you script migrating all VMDK's from one datastore to another datastore.

[RvdNieuwendijk]

Something like:

Get-Datastore "OldDatastore" | Get-VM | Get-HardDisk | Where_Object {$_.FileName -like "*OldDatastore*"} | Set-HardDisk -Datastore "NewDatastore"

Regards, Robert

[E4F]

Robert,

Will this also move vmx files if they are in the datastore?

[LucD · Accepted solution]

No, then you would have to use the Move-VM cmdlet. But that cmdlet will move all files to the destination datastore.

The alternative is to use the RelocateVM_Task method, that allows more flexibility to define what goes where.

There is a good example in your thread called Using multiple datastores, can't migrate the vmx file to a datastore

[E4F]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that one.  Thanks