Drobo Elite - Connecting VMs to Their Disks; Register Virtual Machines

Drobo How-To Guide
Migrating a Disk Pack Between Drobo iSCSI SAN Systems
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Connecting VMs to Their Disks
In any case in which the datastore fails to map to the VM after migration, use the following procedure to remap the
VMX files.
STEP 1
Connect directly to the ESX host service console, logging in as root.
STEP 2
List path and names of registered VM .vmx files on the current host. Run the command: vmware-cmd -l
STEP 3
Register the virtual machine from the ESX command line using:
vmware-cmd -s register
/vmfs/volumes/<datastore>/<virtual_machine_directory>/<virtual_machine_name>.
vmx
Where:
• <datastore> represents the datastore name
• <virtual_machine_directory> represents the directory containing the virtual machine files
• <virtual_machine_name> represents the name of the virtual machine files.
The following is an example:
vmware-cmd -s register /vmfs/volumes/Storage1/vm1/vm1.vmx
A return code =1 signals success.
Here is an example of using the VIM command:
#vim-cmd solo/registervm /vmfs/vol/datastore/dir/vm.vmx
Using the directory in the example above:
#vim-cmd solo/registerv /vmfs/volumes/Storage1/vm1/vm1.vmx
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