Learning PowerCLI

Creating datastores

You can use the New-Datastore cmdlet to create a new datastore. The New-Datastore cmdlet has two parameter sets, one for creating VMFS datastores and one for creating NFS datastores. The syntax of the New-Datastore cmdlet is as follows:

New-Datastore [-Server <VIServer[]>] [-VMHost] <VMHost[]> [-Name] <String> -Path <String> [-Vmfs] [-BlockSizeMB <Int32>] [-FileSystemVersion <String>] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] [<CommonParameters>]
New-Datastore [-Server <VIServer[]>] [-VMHost] <VMHost[]> [-Name] <String> -Path <String> [-Nfs] -NfsHost <String> [-ReadOnly] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] [<CommonParameters>]

The -VMHost, -Name, -Path, and –NfsHost parameters are required.

Creating NFS datastores

In the first example, we will create an NFS datastore. ...