There are many script at preset to get VM folder location on the Internet, Her I have created my version, Getting VMs folder Path from VMs and Templates vCenter, after that I wrote another script helping movement of those VMs to its corresponding folders, for VMs to another vcenter migration.
function Move-VMtoFolderPath {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Move VM to folder path
.DESCRIPTION
The function retrives complete folder Path from vcenter (Inventory >> Vms and Templates)
.NOTES
Author: Kunal Udapi
http://kunaludapi.blogspot.com
.PARAMETER N/a
No Parameters Required
.EXAMPLE
PS> Get-Content -Path c:\temp\VmFolderPathList.txt | Move-VMtoFolderPath
#>
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## http://kunaludapi.blogspot.com
## Version: 1
##
## Tested this script on
## 1) Powershell v4
## 2) VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.0 Release 1 build 2548067
## 3) Vsphere 5.5
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Foreach ($FolderPath in $Input) {
$list = $FolderPath -split "\\"
$VMName = $list[-1]
$count = $list.count - 2
0..$count | ForEach-Object {
$number = $_
if ($_ -eq 0 -and $count -gt 2) {
$Datacenter = Get-Datacenter $list[0]
} #if ($_ -eq 0)
elseif ($_ -eq 0 -and $count -eq 0) {
$Datacenter = Get-Datacenter $list[$_]
#VM already in Datacenter no need to move
Continue
} #elseif ($_ -eq 0 -and $count -eq 0)
elseif ($_ -eq 0 -and $count -eq 1) {
$Datacenter = Get-Datacenter $list[$_]
} #elseif ($_ -eq 0 -and $count -eq 1)
elseif ($_ -eq 0 -and $count -eq 2) {
$Datacenter = Get-Datacenter $list[$_]
} #elseif ($_ -eq 0 -and $count -eq 2)
elseif ($_ -eq 1) {
$Folder = $Datacenter | Get-folder $list[$_]
} #elseif ($_ -eq 1)
else {
$Folder = $Folder | Get-Folder $list[$_]
} #else
} #0..$count | foreach
Move-VM -VM $VMName -Destination $Folder
} #Foreach ($FolderPath in $VMFolderPathList)
}#function Set-FolderPath
Kunal Udapi
vExpert 2014, 2015, 2016
I have written here how to use this script.
