Migrating VM inventory from host to another?

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s0lid

Limp Gawd
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Is there a way to just to migrate the VM inventory from host to another?
I'd like to move the VM inventory from 4.0 host to 5.0 host. These are separate physical hosts with similar network and memory configurations so there should not be problems.

Why just VM inventory rather than vmdks?
All the VM storage is stored at fileserver and both of the hosts are connect to the fileserver with 4Gbps FC.

Just to minimize the down time i'd like to have 1:1 copy of the inventory at new host, shut down the vms at old host and just start them at new one asap.
 
You can do it with PowerCLI. Just have it walk the directory tree and import all .vmx files. I bet there is already a pre-made script out there to do ti.
 
Oh this is easier than i thought :)

1. Shut Down VM on old host
2. Remove from Inventory
3. Browse .vmx file on SAN Datastore
4. Right click -> Add to Inventory
5. Verify settings manually
6. Start VM on new host
 
That was faster way actually than start looking for right files in the old host and figure out what i need.

And only got ~8 critical VMs running, got those goin and rest when i need em again.
 
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