With the datastore and files workflows, you can delete a list of files, find unused files in a datastore, and so on.
To access these workflows, navigate to
and enter the vcenter and datastore_and_files tags in the workflow search box.Workflow Name | Description |
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Delete all files | Deletes a list of files. |
Delete all unused datastore files | Searches all datastores in the vCenter Server environment and deletes all unused files. |
Export unused datastore files | Searches all datastores and creates an XML descriptor file that lists all unused files. |
Find unused files in datastores | Searches the vCenter Server environment for all unused disks (*.vmdk), virtual machines (*.vmx), and template (*.vmtx) files that are not associated with any vCenter Serverinstances registered with Orchestrator. |
Get all configuration, template, and disk files from virtual machines | Creates a list of all virtual machine descriptor files and a list of all virtual machine disk files, for all datastores. |
Log all datastore files | Creates a log for every virtual machine configuration file and every virtual machine file found in all datastores. |
Log unused datastore files | Searches the vCenter Server environment for unused files that are registered on virtual machines and exports a log of the files in a text file. |
Upload file to datastore | Uploads a file to an existing folder on a specific datastore. The uploaded file overwrites any existing file with the same name in the same destination folder. |