Specifications

Basic System Administration
112 VMware, Inc.
 Resourcepools—Canbemovedtootherresourcepoolsandfolders.
 Virtualmachines—Canbemovedtootherresourcepools,clusters,folders,
datacenters,orhosts.Whenaddingtoanythingotherthanahost,youmust
specifyatargethost.
4 Correcttheconditionalsituation,ifneeded.
Whenyoureleasethemousebuttonafterdraggingtheobjectmovestothenew
locationoran
errormessageindicateswhatneedstobedonetopermitthemove.
Removing an Inventory Object
Whenyouremoveanobject(suchasafolder,datacenter,cluster,orresourcepool),
VirtualCenterremovesallchildinventoryobjects(suchasdatacenters,clusters,hosts,
andvirtualmachinescontainedwithintheobject).Alltheassociatedtasksandalarms
arealsoremoved.Assignedprocessorandmigrationlicensesarereturnedtoavailable
status.
Virtualmachinesthatwereonamanagedhostremainonthehost,butareno
longermanagedbyVirtualCenter.
To remove an inventory object
1FromaVIClient,displaytheappropriateinventoryview.
2 Selecttheobject.Fromthepop‐upmenu,chooseRemove.
3Toconfirmthatyouwanttoremovetheobject,clickYesand
followtheprompts,
asneeded.
Whenconfirmed,VirtualCenterremovesallclusters,hosts,andvirtualmachines
withinthedatacenterfromthemanagedinventory.Inaddition,alltheassociated
tasks,alarms,andeventsarealsoremoved.Assignedprocessorandmigration
licensesarereturnedtoavailablestatus.Virtualmachinesthatwereonthe
managed
hostremainonthehost.Therootfoldercannotberemoved.
Working with Files in the Datastore Browser
TheDatastoreBrowserallowsyoutomanagethecontentsofdatastoresintheVIClient
inventory.YoucanusetheDatastoreBrowsertodothefollowing:
 Vieworsearchthecontentsofadatastore.
 AddavirtualmachineortemplatestoredonadatastoretotheVIClientinventory.
 Copyormovefilesfromonelocationtoanother,includingtoanotherdatastore.
NOTETheremoveoptiondoesnotdeletevirtualmachinesfromitsdatastore.