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Migrate VM's from Current Datastore or Datastore Cluster to a new Datastore and Cluster

Pete_Howarth — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:19:26 GMT

I'm looking for a powercli script that will migrate a group of VM's from a list from their current datastore or datastore cluster to a new datastore or datastore cluster maintaining the same disk format thick or thin that they currently have.

Thanks,

Pete

Re: Migrate VM's from Current Datastore or Datastore Cluster to a new Datastore and Cluster

LucD — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:21:10 GMT

What do you already have?

Re: Migrate VM's from Current Datastore or Datastore Cluster to a new Datastore and Cluster

CaptPete3 — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 13:23:37 GMT

Hey Luc - Sorry I haven't responded I was out for a few days. I came up with the two scripts below and they're working.

foreach($vmlist in (Get-Content -Path C:\TEMP\vmlist.txt)){
$vm = Get-VM -Name $vmlist
Move-VM $vm -Datastore SVC_PRD_C01 -DiskStorageFormat Thin -RunAsync
}

##All VM's in a datastore cluster or datastore to another.
Get-VM -Datastore Source Datastore Name | Move-VM -Datastore Target Datastore -DiskStorageFormat thin -RunAsync