change vm vswitch by command line or...

[mazixo]

hi

I have 16 vm whose NIC's are connected to a vSWITCH called "vsw01".now thay all shoud change to new vswich called "vsw02".

is there any way to do it fast for all them or maybe some command . ?!

[TomHowarth]

what version of ESX are you using?

[mazixo]

esxi5

[TomHowarth]

read the following KB article

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=100812...

[mvayser · Accepted solution]

Mazixo,

If there are only 16 VMs that are connected to old portgroup, you can use the following PowerCLI command to move any VM that is connected to  it:

Get-VM | Get-NetworkAdapter | Where-Object {$_.NetworkName -eq "PortgroupOld" } | Set-NetworkAdapter -NetworkName "PortgroupNew" -Confirm:$False

If there are only specific VMs that you need to move, add their names into a text file with each VM on a separate line:

Get-Content c:\SomePath\MyVMs.txt | Foreach {Get-VM $_ | Get-NetworkAdapter | Where-Object {$_.NetworkName -eq "PortgroupOld" } | Set-NetworkAdapter -NetworkName "PortgroupNew" -Confirm:$False }

[mazixo]

thank you so much ! 😉