PowerCLI script to Copy a DVS to a VSS
As part of the ESXi vCenter Migration that I performed recently, we had to convert the ESXi hosts back to Standard vSwitches (from the Distributed vSwitch). The built-in Wizards make the transition from Standard to Distributed nice and easy, but I don't know of any such path for easily moving the other direction. We determined that we'd manually create the Standard vSwitch with all of the port groups from the Distributed vSwitch... but there were about 20 port groups that needed to be transitioned for each of the hosts in the cluster. Aside from the arduous labor involved in that process, I was concerned about typos that might be introduced by depending on manual labor to accomplish that process. So, I wrote a quick PowerCLI script to take care of it. This script takes 3 arguments; Host, Source and Destination. The Host is the ESXi Host on which the operation should be performed. The Source is the Distributed vSwitch that should be copied (thi...