Need Help to automate Poweroff, SVMotion (and VMotion), Upgrade VM Hardware and VMware Tools and then Start the VMs

Hi there,

I'm trying to build a powercli script to perform the following actions:

Poweroff a list of VMs

VMotion to the new hosts

Upgrade VM Hardware and tick the VMware Tools upgrade at next power cycle box

SVMotion the VMs to the storage

Start up the VMs

The problem I'm getting is when the SVMotion is started the script doesn't wait for it to finish to start up the VMs. I tryied with the Wait-Task, but the problem is that the Move-VM task itself finishes but the SVMotion is still running.

Can someone help me here please.

Thanks

This is the script I'm using: (please note I'm new to powerCLI)

# List of VMs to move and Upgrade

$vms = Import-CSV "C:\tmp\list_of_vms.csv"

# Shutdown gracefully and wait for Power Off state

foreach ($vm in $vms){

  Get-VM -Name $vm.name | Shutdown-VMGuest -Confirm:$false

}

do {}  until ((Get-VM $vm.name | select PowerState).powerstate -eq "PoweredOff")

# VMotion VMs to the new Cluster and Upgrade Hardware Version and VMware Tools

foreach ($vm in $vms){

  Move-VM -VM $vm.name -Destination $vm.targetHost -RunAsync

  $vmConfigSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

  $vmConfigSpec.Tools = New-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo

  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy = "UpgradeAtPowerCycle"

  Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | %{

    $_.ReconfigVM($vmConfigSpec)

}

Set-VM -VM (Get-VM -Name $vm.name) -Version v11 -Confirm:$false -RunAsync

Move-VM -VM $vm.name -Datastore $vm.targetDataStore -RunAsync

Start-VM -VM $vm.name -Confirm:$false -RunAsync

}