Emptying a VMFS datastore with PowerCLI

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:14:41 +0000

Well, once again I hacked at the Powershell/PowerCLI the other day. Since we don’t yet have a Enterprise Plus license at work (which would support Datastore Maintaince and Storage DRS), I needed a way to empty one datastore and move all the content into another one, while enabling Thin-Provisioning.

So I googled for a bit, and actually found a few hints … So without further yada-yada, here’s the script I came up with:

Vmfs on BAFM

Emptying a VMFS datastore with PowerCLI