PowerCLI Reference

Copy-VDisk

Synopsis

This cmdlet copies the specified VDisk objects to the specified datastore.

Syntax

Copy-VDisk [-VDisk] <VDisk[]> [-Datastore] <Datastore> [-Name <String>] [-RunAsync] -ScsiLun <ScsiLun> [-Server <VIServer[]>] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]

Copy-VDisk [-VDisk] <VDisk[]> [-Datastore] <Datastore> [-Name <String>] [-RunAsync] [-Server <VIServer[]>] [-StorageFormat <VDiskStorageFormat>] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]

Related Commands

Online Version
Get-VDisk
Move-VDisk
New-VDisk
Remove-VDisk
Set-VDisk

Detailed Description

This cmdlet copies the specified VDisk objects to the specified datastore. For RDM (RawVDisk), only one VDisk can be copied at once, and only copying from VMFS to VMFS is supported.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required?	Pipeline Input
VDisk	VDisk[]	Specifies the VDisk objects you want to copy.	true	True (ByValue)
Datastore	Datastore	Specifies the datastore to which you want to copy the metadata of the VDisk object. For flat disk, the contents of the disk are also copied to the specified datastore.	true	False
Confirm	SwitchParameter	If the value is $true, indicates that the cmdlet asks for confirmation before running. If the value is $false, the cmdlet runs without asking for user confirmation.	false	False
Name	String	Specifies the name of the copy of the VDisk object.	false	False
RunAsync	SwitchParameter	Indicates that the command returns immediately without waiting for the task to complete. In this mode, the output of the cmdlet is a Task object. For more information about the RunAsync parameter run "help About_RunAsync" in the VMware PowerCLI console.	false	False
ScsiLun	ScsiLun	Specifies the backing SCSI LUN for the copy of the VDisk object.	true	False
Server	VIServer[]	Specifies the vCenter Server systems on which you want to run the cmdlet. If no value is given to this parameter, the command runs on the default servers. For more information about default servers, see the description of Connect-VIServer.	false	False
StorageFormat	VDiskStorageFormat	Specifies the storage format of the copy of the VDisk object.	false	False
WhatIf	SwitchParameter	Indicates that the cmdlet is run only to display the changes that would be made and actually no objects are modified.	false	False

Return Type

The newly created copies of the specified VDisk objects

Notes

Examples

-------------------------- Example 1 --------------------------

Copy-VDisk -VDisk $vDisk -Datastore $ds

Copies the flat VDisk object $vDisk on the $ds datastore.

-------------------------- Example 2 --------------------------

Copy-VDisk -VDisk $vDisk -ScsiLun $scsiLun -Datastore $ds

Copies the raw VDisk object $vDisk on the $scsiLun SCSI LUN and stores metadata of this object on the $ds datastore.