Move-HardDisk

NAME Move-HardDisk



SYNOPSIS

This cmdlet moves a hard disk from one location to another.





SYNTAX

Move-HardDisk [-HardDisk] <HardDisk[]> [-Datastore] <Datastore> [-RunAsync] [-Server <VIServer[]>] [-StorageFormat

<VirtualDiskStorageFormat>] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

This cmdlet moves a hard disk from one location to another.





PARAMETERS

-Datastore <Datastore>

Specifies a datastore where you want to place the hard disk.



Required? true

Position? 2

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-HardDisk <HardDisk[]>

Specifies the hard disk that you want to move to another location.



Required? true

Position? 1

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? True (ByValue)

Accept wildcard characters? false



-RunAsync [<SwitchParameter>]

Indicates that the command returns immediately without waiting for the task to complete. In this mode, the

output of the cmdlet is a Task object. For more information about the RunAsync parameter run "help

About_RunAsync" in the VMware PowerCLI console.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value False

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Server <VIServer[]>

Specifies the vCenter Server systems on which you want to run the cmdlet. If no value is given to this

parameter, the command runs on the default servers. For more information about default servers, see the

description of Connect-VIServer.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-StorageFormat <VirtualDiskStorageFormat>

Specifies the storage format of the relocated hard disk. This parameter accepts Thin, Thick, and

EagerZeroedThick values.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]

If the value is $true, indicates that the cmdlet asks for confirmation before running. If the value is $false,

the cmdlet runs without asking for user confirmation.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value False

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]

Indicates that the cmdlet is run only to display the changes that would be made and actually no objects are

modified.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value False

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,

ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,

OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see

about_CommonParameters (https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).



INPUTS



OUTPUTS

Zero or more relocated HardDisk objects







NOTES









-------------------------- Example 1 --------------------------



$myDatastore1 = Get-Datastore -Name 'MyDatastore1'

$myDisk = Get-VM -Name MyVm1 | Get-HardDisk

Move-HardDisk -HardDisk $myDisk -Datastore $myDatastore1



Moves the hard disk of a specified virtual machine to another datastore.

-------------------------- Example 2 --------------------------



$myDisk = Get-VM -Name 'MyVM1' | Get-HardDisk

$myDatastore1 = Get-Datastore -Name 'MyDatastore1'

Move-hardDisk - HardDisk $myDisk -Datastore $myDatastore1 - StorageFormat 'EagerZeroedThick'



Moves the hard disk of a specified virtual machine to another datastore and changes the storage format of the hard

disk to EagerZeroedThick.



RELATED LINKS

Online Version: https://code.vmware.com/doc/preview?id= ... dDisk.html

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