Hyper-v VM migration with VMM Powershell

Somethimes you need to bulk migrate some Hyper-v virtual machines.
This is not possible with the VMM gui.

In this situation PowerShell can help:
Filter on VMname

Import-Module virtualmachinemanager

#Get Virtual machine with a specified name:
$vm = Get-SCVirtualMachine | Where {  $_.name -match "ROB" }

#TargetPath Not required VM migration
$path = "c:\clusterstorage\TargetLUN"

#TargetHost Not required Storage migration
$vmhost = "TargetHost"

#Move Action
foreach ($VMs in $VM){

#Creates a uniq job ID so you can monitor the status in VMM
$JobGroupID = [Guid]::NewGuid().ToString()

Move-SCVirtualMachine -VM $vms -VMHost $vmhost -Path $path -RunAsynchronously -JobGroup $JobGroupID
}

Import-Module virtualmachinemanager

#Get Virtual machine with a specified name:

$vm = Get-SCVirtualMachine | Where { $_.name -match "ROB" }

#TargetPath Not required VM migration

$path = "c:\clusterstorage\TargetLUN"

#TargetHost Not required Storage migration

$vmhost = "TargetHost"

#Move Action

foreach ($VMs in $VM){

#Creates a uniq job ID so you can monitor the status in VMM

$JobGroupID = [Guid]::NewGuid().ToString()

Move-SCVirtualMachine -VM $vms -VMHost $vmhost -Path $path -RunAsynchronously -JobGroup $JobGroupID

}

Replace the $VM line when you need to migrate all the machines placed on a specified host:

$vm = Get-SCVMHost | where { $_.Name -eq "VMHOST" } | get-scvirtualmachine

1	$vm = Get-SCVMHost \| where { $_.Name -eq "VMHOST" } \| get-scvirtualmachine

2 comments

tim says:

November 6, 2015 at 8:02 pm

With the Move-SCVirtualMachine you have the -JobGroupID. Do you know how we can use this to monitor the status of the job and tell when it is complete?

thanks,
tim

1. Rob Verhees says:
  
  February 17, 2016 at 9:45 am
  
  Yes sure, this can be done using the VirtualMachineManger PowerShell plugin.
  I’ve made a sample script here: Monitor VMM Job Using PowerShell

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