Moving hosts to one vCenter to another with power CLI

All,

Just need a little confirmation here on my understanding of PowerCLI. I'm still a novice so hoping someone can help out me.

I need to spend 120 guests of a vCenter (4.0) in a new vCenter (4.1). These hosts are distributed among 15 poles on the vCenter origin. I think a powerCLI script will be the fastest way to do it, but I'm still pretty new for powerCLI and want to make sure I don't break anything. I have to be able to keep all the guests running and available during the process. Based on the reading of the reference guide, it looks like I can use the following commands. This is all assuming that I have already connected the appropriate vCenter. My hosts are a mixture of 4.0 ESX and ESXi 4.0.

I am on the right track, or should I go a different route here? Is this what I should be concerned or could break using these commands?

Remove-VMHost < DNS host name >

Add-VMHost < DNS host name > - location (< cluster_name >) - user root - password password <>

Thanks for your help!

-Adam

You're right, isn't the cmdlet Add-VMHost, one - server setting.

But you can use the - location setting.

Game-PowerCLIConfiguration - multiple DefaultVIServerMode

$fromVC = OldVCName VIServer to connect

$toVC = NewVCName-VICenter-to connect

Remove-VMHost -Server $fromVC

$dc = get - - Server $toVC data center

Add-VMHost -location () - user - password root -location $dc

The location can be a folder

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