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mavatko
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Update-VmfsDatastore missing features

Hi, 

I don't know how to submit a feature request for PowerCLI so I'm writing here.

https://code.vmware.com/docs/5730/cmdlet-reference#/doc/Update-VmfsDatastore.html

Update-VmfsDatastore cmdlet can help a lot, however I'm missing features which I'm pretty sure would help others as well.

For now after the VMFS upgrade is completed it is migrating VMs back to the source datastore, which is not necessary sometimes, it can happen that you are migrating 2x as much data as needed with no reason. It would be nice to have a simple switch to not migrate the data back after succesful upgrade, for this next limitation would need to be fixed as well.

I don't know if it is hardcoded, but it is saying destination datastore has to be VMFS5, I have no idea why, but I believe it is unnecesary.

Also it would be great if it would be SDRS aware in a way, where you run it at datastore cluster level considering you have enough space to satisfy migrations without temp datastore

 

thanks

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