PowerShell Script for Exporting a virtual machine

re: PowerShell Script for Exporting a virtual machine

Prasad — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:07:56 GMT

Can you please suggest that how to use above scripts manually :(

re: PowerShell Script for Exporting a virtual machine

Wesley — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:37:29 GMT

Hi Ben, I am using the following script. This can be executed through task manager by the runas command prompt: powershell.exe -noexit <Path to .ps1>

• Shutdown VM (Gracefully)

• Export VM to a network share

• Copy from a network share to the local drive on HyperV Host

• Import VM into HyperV Host

• Start imported VM

Following is the code to make this happen. Note that there are 2 “VMName” folders, this is done so the first is a dummy folder that allows RoboCopy to copy all the contents necessary for import. We must create the VMName folder previous to executing these for the first time, following the first time it will not be an issue.

Get-VM -vm VMName | invoke-vmshutdown -force

Export-VM -VM VMName -Path "\\ShareName\VMName" -CopyState -Wait

robocopy "\\ShareName\VMName" "LocalDriveLocation" /E

Import-VM -Path "PathOfImport" -Server HyperVServerImportedOn

Start-VM -vm VMName

I hope this helps someone else that needs to do the same. We need to export, copy, then import, then start so we know that there is a working backup of the server.

re: PowerShell Script for Exporting a virtual machine

David Vella — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:16:38 GMT

Hi Ben,

A quick note .. we just released a free PowerShell script to automate export of Hyper-V VMs. It's quite an extensive job-based script.

We have a download at www.altaro.com/.../free-download-powershell-script-for-hyper-v-export.

re: PowerShell Script for Exporting a virtual machine

Leo — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:26:09 GMT

i just tried your script 5 minutes ago and it didn't work. FYI, I'm not a programmer but I've been trying to find a way to clone my VMs. So please point out where I did wrong. Thanks