Safely Automating The Migration of 600+ VMs?

[rovalent]

Is there a way to safely move all of my VI3 VMs in a fashion similar to VMware Converter to a different VC running VI4, then destroy the original VM after it has finished successfully? I have 600 VMs to do, obviously manually is not feasible.

Any input would be welcomed.

Right now we are relocating the VM from the old VC to the new VC (the two clusters are sharing the same LUNs)

We then unregister from the old and into the new VC.

Once that is done we upgrade the hardware and convert to thin vmdk format.

We are getting some failures, like time outs etc. I am looking for a way to solve this in a way like converter instead.

Is there an API to interact with converter through PowerShell? Perl?

Thanks again in advance for the help!

[LucD]

Afaik there is currently no API for Converter.

But by manipulating the job XML file(s) you can automate Converter jobs.

Have a look at my blog entry on this subject: Automating Converter Enterprise jobs with PS