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I missed Mike DiPetrillo’s Deploying VMware in a Microsoft Shop session at VMworld 2008, but Mike apparently provided a PowerShell example of automating the migration of an Ubuntu VM between ESX hosts without using VMotion. This script would be a great alternative to a cold migration for VI Foundation customers. Mike has now posted his script and a video of a demo on his blog.

From the VMware Field: Mike D’s Virtualization Blog: Quick Migration for VMware – The Power of PowerShell shows off the script and flirts with comparing this ability to the Microsoft Hyper-V Quick Migration feature.

“One of the things that was also brought up over and over again in the debate was the fact that Quick Migration was free and came with Hyper-V since it was based on Microsoft Clustering whereas VMware VMotion was only available in the most expensive Enterprise SKU of VMware Infrastructure. So there it was – I need to create Quick Migration for the lower priced and free VMware solutions. I went off, built my little script, and showed it off at VMworld. There was a GREAT response to it so I’m posting it here for others to use or improve upon however you see fit.

The script works just like Microsoft Quick Migration – the virtual disk is stored on shared storage, the VM is suspended to disk, and the VM is then resumed on the destination.”

Mike provides the various requirements and the links later in his post.

To set this up in your environment you’ll need a few things:

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