thanks for making light in the dark........
The PowerCLI view is much more revealing than the vsphere client browse datastore view.....
get-childItem from the source:
LastWriteTime Type Length Name ------------- ---- ------ ----
28.10.2012 02:01 VmNvramFile 8684 vmname.nvram
15.03.2012 19:45 VmDiskFile 619 vmname.vmdk
03.12.2012 23:00 File 721 vmname.vmsd
04.12.2012 23:00 VmConfigFile 3456 vmname.vmx
11.10.2012 13:48 File 1575 vmname.vmxf
25.01.2011 12:45 VmDiskFile 623 vmname_2.vmdk
04.12.2012 23:00 VmDiskFile 271 vmname_2-000001.vmdk
04.12.2012 23:00 File 618496 vmname_2-000001-delta.vmdk
04.12.2012 23:00 File 322134865920 vmname_2-flat.vmdk
19.06.2012 23:00 VmDiskFile 623 vmname_3.vmdk
04.12.2012 23:00 VmDiskFile 326 vmname_3-000001.vmdk
04.12.2012 23:00 File 16945152 vmname_3-000001-delta.vmdk
04.12.2012 23:00 File 85921274880 vmname_3-flat.vmdk
04.12.2012 23:00 VmDiskFile 322 vmname-000001.vmdk
04.12.2012 23:00 File 33681408 vmname-000001-delta.vmdk
04.12.2012 23:00 File 134 vmname-aux.xml
04.10.2012 15:16 File 37 vmname-c5ff54d9.hlog
02.11.2011 12:30 File 17171480576 vmname-c5ff54d9.vswp
04.12.2012 23:00 File 64436843520 vmname-flat.vmdk
04.12.2012 23:00 VmSnapshotFile 30231 vmname-Snapshot20333.vmsn
04.12.2012 23:00 File 30309 vmname-vss_manifests20333.zip
17.10.2012 23:00 VmLogFile 1324054 vmware.log
28.10.2011 02:46 VmLogFile 1300309 vmware-14.log
03.11.2011 00:47 VmLogFile 1358505 vmware-15.log
28.02.2012 09:15 VmLogFile 85607 vmware-16.log
28.02.2012 23:45 VmLogFile 1365373 vmware-17.log
30.04.2012 23:01 VmLogFile 1329495 vmware-18.log
06.06.2012 23:01 VmLogFile 1338154 vmware-19.log
that's why the vmname_2.vmdk also only 0.61 kb
for my plan is the right command:
Copy-DatastoreItem -Item dssource:\VMNAME\VMNAME_*.* -Destination dsdestination:\VMNAMESHADOW\COPY_HDD\