VMotion from command line?

[array]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently working for a client that wants to be able to initiate VMotion (not Storage VMotion) from a command line. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance,

Remko

[TomHowarth]

have a look at this it appears to give a proceedure for a CLI based VMotion like process, there is no VMware equivilent

Tom Howarth

VMware Communities User Moderator

[array]

Thanks for your answer,

I think it must be possible usinge the SDK, see

MigrateVM_Task

Migrates a virtual machine's execution to a specific resource pool or host.

Requires Resource.HotMigrate privilege if the virtual machine is powered on or Resource.ColdMigrate privilege if the virtual machine is powered off or suspended.

Required Privileges

Dynamic - See discussion above

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
_this	ManagedObjectReference	A reference to the VirtualMachine used to make the method call.
pool* P	ManagedObjectReference to a ResourcePool	The target resource pool for the virtual machine. If the pool parameter is left unset, the virtual machine's current pool is used as the target pool.
host*	ManagedObjectReference to a HostSystem	The target host to which the virtual machine is intended to migrate. The host parameter may be left unset if the compute resource associated with the target pool represents a stand-alone host or a DRS-enabled cluster. In the former case the stand-alone host is used as the target host. In the latter case, the DRS system selects an appropriate target host from the cluster.
priority	VirtualMachineMovePriority	The priority of the migration task.
state*	VirtualMachinePowerState	If specified, the virtual machine migrates only if its state matches the specified state.

*Need not be set P Required privilege: Resource.AssignVMToPool

[rossb2b]

I found a script that was written for a performance test Dell was doing on th 1955 blade Server. The script is at the end of this PDF - http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/vmware_1955.pdf

It's not exactly what you are looking for but I hope it will help.

-rick

[TomHowarth]

you can use VIMSH but it is a steep learning curve

Tom Howarth

VMware Communities User Moderator

[rossb2b]

Here is some sample code: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/92766

[jfields]

Have you tried the new VI toolkit? See this referenece:

http://www.vmware.com/beta/vitk_win/

Note this is still a Beta release of the toolkit, but it looks like it might solve the customer's issue. The Cmdlets reference manual shows the command would be Move-VM.

[array]

Thanks everyone!

I'm going to try the vi perl toolkit this afternoon. Seems like this is what is going to work! I'll let you know what the results are....

Remko