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  • 1.  Migrate Distributed Port Group to vSS

    Posted Jun 25, 2024 07:07 AM

    Hi PowerCLI Community, i'm pretty new to PowerCLI so I need your help. I have the issue to Migrate ESX Nodes from an vSphere 7 to vSphere 8 so I found a KB Workaround for it:

    • Migrate dPG to vSS
    • Remove Node from vDS
    • Remove Node from vCenter 7
    • Add Node to vCenter 8
    • Add Node to new vDS and choose the appropriate vmnic and assign the right dPG in new vDS
      • I already migrated the vDS from vCenter 7 to 8 with the same konfigurations, with somtehing like this:
        • New-VDSwitch -BackupPath $vDSLocation -Location (Get-Datacenter $datacenter) -KeepIdentifiers:$true

    I'm stucked at Point 1, you can go to the vCenter UI and click "Migrate Networking" is there any chance to rebuild this process in PowerCLI?

    I have to migrate 300 ESX Nodes

    Thank you guys in Advance



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    Cemre Guenay - IT Consultant - Computacenter
    https://irg-net.com
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  • 2.  RE: Migrate Distributed Port Group to vSS

    Posted Jun 25, 2024 07:25 AM

    There were sample scripts on VMTN before the migration, now it is hard to find them.

    There are some examples on the web;
    Automate the reverse, migrating from vSphere Distributed Switch to Virtual Standard Switch using PowerCLI 5.5 (williamlam.com)

    vDS to vSS and back again – Virtual Thoughts



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