Howdy everybody.
I'm working on a hobby question, just to see. Anyone have any thoughts or examples on a way, using pCLI, to resolve a VM, zip it up in it's entirety to a datastore it is not resident in and continue on? I know about ghettoVCB and gVCB2, but I was curious if anyone has ever attempted this trick to backup VMs with pCLI?
Thanks for any time and thoughts you put in.
R/,
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Abe Lister
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I've never tried this since VCB has been around and that works for what I need.
I did notice that there is an 'Export-VApp' cmdlet in the new PowerCLI that does what you're asking for vApps instead of individual VMs. Bonus is that you get OVFs instead of ZIPs.
Get-VApp myVApp | Export-VApp "c:\vapps\"
If you wrap your VMs in vApp wrappers, you can do it that easily.
I've never tried this since VCB has been around and that works for what I need.
I did notice that there is an 'Export-VApp' cmdlet in the new PowerCLI that does what you're asking for vApps instead of individual VMs. Bonus is that you get OVFs instead of ZIPs.
Get-VApp myVApp | Export-VApp "c:\vapps\"
If you wrap your VMs in vApp wrappers, you can do it that easily.
I never thought of that. It might work for what I'm trying to do. Definitely worth exploring. Many thanks!
After digging a bit, I found this that may do what you want
http://xtravirt.com/powercli-simple-vm-backup-script
Doug,
Thanks for all the help. Both of your ideas punch out parts of my problem on both methods - what I need is to find a way to string them together, and that's what I'm working on ATT. I have a unique environment where I need to export the vApp into a datastore in as few files as is possible. I can come at it a different way I think (the joys of NFS), but I'd really like to be able to have a VIHost write the ovf into a datastore vice locally. Just a matter of juggling parts and pointers around I guess.
Your comments have certainly been very helpful. Many thanks for your time and attention. The work continues on...
R/,
- abe
Integritas!
Abe Lister
Just some guy that loves to virtualize
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