Register All VMs on a Datastore to an ESX/ESXi host

15 March 2012 Jarret Lavallee

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ESXi

Register all VMs on a single datastore.

~ # find /vmfs/volumes/&lt;datastorename&gt;/ -maxdepth 2 -name '*.vmx' -exec vim-cmd solo/registervm "{}" \;

Register all VMs on all datastores.

~ # find /vmfs/volumes/ -maxdepth 3 -name '*.vmx' -exec vim-cmd solo/registervm "{}" \;

ESX

Register all VMs on a single datastore.

~ # find /vmfs/volumes/&lt;datastorename&gt;/ -maxdepth 2 -name '*.vmx' -exec vmware-cmd -s register "{}" \;

Register all VMs on all datastores.

~ # find /vmfs/volumes/ -maxdepth 3 -name '*.vmx' -exec vmware-cmd -s register "{}" \;

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