Moving Multiple VM to a different Host

[system_noida]

Hi All Experts :),

I did use the below code for migrating the VM from one host to another and its working fine. But I am looking to migrate some multiple VMs and want the script to read the VM name and Host name from a CSV file or path. Please could you let me know what code I have to use in this below script.

$vms = Get-VM -Name VM-Name

$desthost = Get-VMHost -Name "esxhost.local"

foreach ($singlevm in $vms) {

  Shutdown-VMGuest -VM $singlevm -Confirm:$false

  while ((Get-VM $singlevm).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff") { Start-Sleep -Seconds 5 }

  Move-VM -vm $singlevm -Destination $desthost

  Start-VM -VM $singlevm

}

Moderator edit by wila: Moved to PowerCLI discussions

[fabio1975]

Ciao 

You can insert these command 

$vms = import-csv d:\temp\servers.csv | select -ExpandProperty name

Where a column of the csv file has the header name.

If you want export the VM name with Status  power ON from vcenter:

$vcVMname = "vcenter name"

$vcVm = Get-VM -Name $vcVMName

#Export list of poweredOn VM to file for powerOn

$vmservers=Get-VM | Where-Object{$_.powerstate -eq "PoweredOn" -and ($_.Name -ne $vcVMName)} 

$vmservers | select Name | export-csv d:\temp\servers.csv -NoTypeInformation

Bye Fabio 

[system_noida]

Hi Fabio,

I am only looking to migrate the VM to another host. The code which I pasted below is working fine but the thing is that I need to put the VM Name and Host name in this scripts file. What I want that the code should read a csv file and get the VM name and Host name from there to move. So here which code I need to add and where? Also what input I need to add in csv file. Please help me with full code which include the one I pasted. Sorry I am not good in scripting hence asking this much :).

[fabio1975]

$vms = import-csv d:\temp\servers.csv | select -ExpandProperty name
$desthost = Get-VMHost -Name "esxhost.local"

foreach ($singlevm in $vms) {

Shutdown-VMGuest -VM $singlevm -Confirm:$false

while ((Get-VM $singlevm).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff") { Start-Sleep -Seconds 5 }

Move-VM -vm $singlevm -Destination $desthost

Start-VM -VM $singlevm

}

and the csv file must have a single column with the name of the VMs (the name you see from the vcenter inventory and not the hostname)

and lastly do a test first with only one test VM

Bye Fabio 

[system_noida]

Hi Fabio,

Thanks your input is working greatly for the VMs , one more thing is that I need the Esxi host to be read from a csv file along with VM name on which VM will migrated . could you please help with that too :).

This is code for esxi host $desthost = Get-VMHost -Name "esxhost.local".

[fabio1975 · Accepted solution]

$vms = import-csv c:\tmp\servers.csv 

$vms | foreach {

    Shutdown-VMGuest -VM $_.Name -Confirm:$false

    while ((Get-VM $_.Name).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff") { Start-Sleep -Seconds 5 }

    Move-VM -vm $_.Name -Destination $_.VMHost

    Start-VM -VM $_.Name

  }

where servers.csv

Bye 

Fabio 

[fabio1975]

Hi, did you succeed?

[system_noida]

Hi Mate,

Yes its working as expected. Thank you very much for helping out me with this script mate. Kudos to you!!!