Hope the script will help you to free your datastore and save your storage space. Write-Host "The file does not exist on this path: $Path" Write-Host "This file has been removed: $File" #If you want to remove files automatically, remove -Confirm from the below line Get-VM $VM | Get-CDDrive | Set-CDDrive -NoMedia -Confirm:$False $Path=$Datacenter.name+"/"+$Datastore + "/"+$Folder The script should be run via PowerCLI and we should connect PowerCLI console to a vCenter. Here is a script that you can customize that for your environment and add some lines to get machine list from administrator. There is a simple solution for single machine, we can remove ISO file in the machine configuration and delete the file from the machine’s folder.īut what is solution for more than one machine? If each ISO used 3GB, we will lose more than 300GB for 100 VMs. If we deployed one or two machine, there is no concern about free space on our datastore but think about 100 or more machine! The file will be renamed to “_deviceImage-0.iso”.
Then if we import the OVF/OVA file to another server or environment, the ISO file will be copied to the target folder with other files. Sometimes, we need to prepare a VM with specific OS and deploy it on another environment, so we have to export the VM as OVA or OVF file.īecause of installing OS, we need to mount ISO file on our machine and may be we forgot remove ISO file from CD-ROM before exporting VM. So Windows Explorer or also known as File Explorer is now set as the default program that will deal with ISO files in your computer.
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