Quick and simple storage vMotion scripts

Alan Renouf is a community peer for VMware PowerCLI, Virtu-Al.Net.  In 2009, he was named a vEXPERT by VMware.  Alan's main focus is to teach and help other VMware admins automate their VMware infrastructures and make their lives easier through automation.
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Here are a couple of quick storage vMotion scripts, easy enough but they come in useful when moving to a new datastore.

They will obviously be bound by the amount of concurrent sVMotions allowed for your version of ESX, the rest will queue until others have completed.

These are handy to fire off and walk away and then check later rather than having to manually kick each one off.

Option 1

Select the VMs on a certain datastore and move them to a new datastore and change the disk format to thin along the way

Option 2

Import a CSV with Name, NewDatastore headings and move each one of these converting the disk along the way

Did they move ?

To check these have completed successfully you can use the following: