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register VMs from all datastores where we have .vmx file

When you want to register all VMs from datastore use below script to register all VMs.


A) Register all Virtual Machine in a datastore
find /vmfs/volumes/<Datastore name>/ -type f -maxdepth 2 -name '*.vmx' -exec vim-cmd solo/registervm {} \;

 

B) Register all Virtual Machine in all datastore
find /vmfs/volumes/ -maxdepth 3 -name '*.vmx' -exec vim-cmd solo/registervm {} \;

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