Datastore and Files Workflows

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
Library
Workflows
and enter the
vcenter
and
datastore_and_files
tags in the workflow search box.
Workflow Name
Description
Delete all files
Deletes a list of files.
Delete all unused datastore files
Searches all datastores in the
vCenter
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
environment for all unused disks (
*.vmdk
), virtual machines (
*.vmx
), and template (
*.vmtx
) files that are not associated with any
vCenter
instances 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
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.