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PowerCLI Move-Datastore Function

January 4, 2012

Moving datastores into folders via drag/drop can be painful. In some cases vCenter does not want to allow a drag from a long list. Here is a quick function to make moving via PowerCLI a little bit easier.

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Function Move-Datastore {
    param (
        [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.DatastoreManagement.VmfsDatastoreImpl[]]
            $datastore = $(throw "Datastore(s) must be provided."),
        [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.FolderImpl]
            $folder = $(throw "A destination folder must be provided.")
    )

    if ($folder.Type -ne "Datastore") {
        throw ("The specified folder is not a datastore folder.")
        exit
      }

    $dsList = @()
    foreach ($ds in $datastore) {
        $dsList += $ds.ID
    }
    $folder.ExtensionData.MoveIntoFolder($dsList)
}