How to move SCVMM VMs into a Cloud

Posted on October 19, 2016

If you’ve ever added hosts to an SCVMM instance you’ll know that there’s seeminly no easy way to move the newly imported VMs from those hosts into SCVMM clouds. I’ve found the best way to do this is by using the SCVMM command-line interface, which unfortunately has a few quirks.

Set-SCVirtualMachine is the command you’ll need to use, with the flag “-Cloud” like in the example below.

Set-SCVirtualMachine -VM “NewVM1” -Cloud “Cloud1”

Unfortunately, every time I’ve tried this I’ve gotten an error saying it can’t convert the value type correctly like as shown below.

For whatever reason, I’ve found that the work around here is to set both the VM and the Cloud as variables and run the command again.

$VM = Get-SCVirtualMachine “NewVM1”

$Cloud = Get-SCCloud “Cloud1” 

Set-SCVirtualMachine -VM $VM -Cloud $Cloud

Then we have success!

I’ve yet to figure out why this is, but at least it works.

I hope this makes your day at least a little bit easier.

Thanks,