vmotion vms from csv

[tdubb123]

Is it possible to sepcify multiple vms from command line and vmotion them?

get-vm xxx | Move-VM -Destination (Get-VMHost esxi)

how can i do this from a script and csv file?

The script below seems to have some issues...

param ( $CsvFile = "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\New-VMs.csv" )

$worksheet = Import-Csv -Path $CsvFile

$worksheet | ForEach-Object {

Move-VM -Destination `

Get-VMHost $_.VMHost `

}

[RvdNieuwendijk]

If you make a .csv file New-VMs.csv like the next example that has colomn headers in the first row:

VM,VMHost

VM1,ESX1

VM2,ESX2

You can move the virtual machines to the corresponding ESX servers with the following script:

param ( $CsvFile = "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\New-VMs.csv" )
Import-Csv -Path $CsvFile | ForEach-Object {
  $VMhost = Get-VMHost $_.VMHost
  Get-VM $_.VM | Move-VM -Destination $VMHost
}

Regards, Robert

[tdubb123]

hi

this seems to work but does them one at a time. how do I vmotion all at the same time?

[sflanders]

Just add -RunAsync to Move-VM:

param ( $CsvFile = "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\New-VMs.csv" )
Import-Csv -Path $CsvFile | ForEach-Object {
  $VMhost = Get-VMHost $_.VMHost
  Get-VM $_.VM | Move-VM -Destination $VMHost -RunAsync
}

[LucD]

You do know that there is a limit on the number of simultanious vMotions ?

Check page 227 in the vSphere Datacenter Administration Guide