Deleting Lots of Files from a VMFS Volume
One of my customers recently encountered an interesting problem. They encountered an issue that caused their Unidesk desktop backups to fail to delete from the archive datastore. As such, that datastore filled up and backups were unable to continue. The customer was working directly with Unidesk and VMware to resolve the issue, but in the meantime needed an easy way to purge all of the stale backups from their system. A few months ago, I posted about setting up Persistent ESXi Scratch Space for hosts using SD cards for their installations. In that post, we covered how to mount a VMFS volume into a PowerCLI session. Once it's mounted, we created the per-host Scratch folders, but that same technique can be easily used here to help us find those stale backups. First, we ran this command to mount the "VDI-Archive1" datastore as a drive named DS: New-PSDrive -Name "DS" -Root \ -PSProvider VimDatastore -Datastore (get-datastore VDI-Archive1) Next, we...