I recently used this code to move a couple dozen terabytes of virtual machines from one array to another — all while enabling thin provisioning (aka sparse disk). Once the LUN migration is complete a nice little message shows up in your email. It is a very straight forward script that I thought was worth sharing.<\/p>\n
\r\n$startTime = get-date\r\n$sourceDS = \"array1-1000\"\r\n$destDS = \"array2-3000\"\r\n\r\n$dsView = Get-Datastore -Name $destDS | Get-View -Property Name\r\n\r\nGet-VM -Datastore $sourceDS | sort name | % {\r\n\t$vmView = $_ | Get-View -Property Name\r\n\t$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec\r\n\t$spec.datastore = $dsView.MoRef\r\n\t$spec.transform = \"sparse\"\r\n\t$vmView.RelocateVM($spec, $null)\r\n}\r\n\r\nSend-MailMessage -From \"vmware@mydomain.local\" -SmtpServer \"smtp.mydomain.local\" -Subject \"Migration from $sourceDS to $destDS complete\" -To \"me@mydomain.local\" -BodyAsHtml \"This task started at $($startTime.datetime.tostring()) and finished at $((get-date).datetime.tostring())\"\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I recently used this code to move a couple dozen terabytes of virtual machines from one array to another — all while enabling thin provisioning (aka sparse disk). Once the LUN migration is complete a nice little message shows up … Continue reading