Hey guys,
I currently have two ESX servers that are clustered, but the datastores aren't connected to each other. When I clone a VM in the viClient interface, I can choose to clone it to the other datastore on the other host and everything works fine.
I'm currently trying to write a PowerCLI script that allows me to clone a VM and I'd like to be able to specify which host/datastore it gets put on. Here is the script as it stands:
$vms = Import-CSV C:\scripts\test.csv
foreach ($vm in $vms) { New-VM -VM $vm.sourcevm -Name $vm.name -VMHost $vm.host -Datastore $vm.datastore -LinkedClone -ReferenceSnapshot $vm.snapshot
-OSCustomizationSpec $vm.customization
}
This script works fine as long as -VMHost and -Datastore are the same as the source VM, but I'd like to be able to clone a VM to my second host/datastore. If I change -VMHost and -Datastore to my other host/datastore, I get the following error:
New-VM The operation for the entity VirtualMachine-vm-479 failed with the following message: "Virtual disk 'Hard disk 1' is not accessible on the host: Unable to access file [datastore2] Windows7/Windows7.vmdk"
Note: For the example above, the VM is contained on host2/datastore2 and I've entered host1/datastore1 for my VMHost/Datastore.
Any information you could provide would be greatly appreciated!