MAT 1.5 is available (now with NIC recreation!)
I am happy to announce that MAT 1.5 is now available. Grab your copy now:
The Migration Automation Toolkit (MAT) 1.5 brings a large number of improvements over the previous MAT and also puts the MAT and the MAT (Powered by Project Shift) at a feature parity. This means that the most asked about enhancement is now finally in MAT: NIC recreation. We recreate up to three nics with all the fixings (IP addresses, all DNS information, the MAC address of the VMware nic, and VLAN tagging). While MAT and MAT (Powered by Project Shift) both recreate this information, they do so in slightly different ways because of the method of conversion is different for each (expect Michael to create a post on that down the road).
I expect that this will be the last major change to the MAT for MVMCv1 as this has all the features I had originally hoped to cover. But that doesn’t mean someone out there might not come up with a feature so awesome we have to update it again. :)
The full list of new features and fixes is below but the main additions are:
- All MAT commands exposed by CLI (no need to use the menu)
- Pre-flight checks
- Tab-complete commands (for quicker typing)
- Automatic (optional) removal of CD\DVD
- Automatic (optional) removal of floppies
- Automatic (optional)recreation of NICs (for up to 3 nics) on Hyper-V including:
- Static IP addresses
- DNS information
- MAC addresses
- VLAN Tagging
- Renaming all ps1 files to a standard PowerShell convention
What's New in 1.5
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FIXED BUG: Get-Report functions fail if no data is present
FIXED BUG: Add warning for !gotrows
FIXED BUG: Reports - clear first line of erroneous XML from Report
FIXED BUG: Adding $VM.GuestVMFQDN values to temp table produces no data
FIXED BUG: Repair variable format in table
FIXED BUG: Some $XMLPath values throw error
FIXED BUG: Elevation fails with parameters from right-click
FIXED BUG: Fixed/Dynamic disk switch not available
NEW: Create new function for Show-Warnings
NEW: Update Help with Show-Warnings
NEW: Add PreFlight checks
NEW: Check PowerShell version
NEW: Check for SQL connection
NEW: Check for PowerShell 32 bit if recreating NICs
NEW: Create general function to handle preflight errors
NEW: Check for supported versions of VMware
NEW: Verify VM is running before starting
NEW: Jump to next VM if current VM is off
NEW: Use timestamp in reports filename
NEW: Discovery and disconnect CD devices
NEW: Discovery and disconnect floppy drives
NEW: Add variables to make cd/floppy removal optional
NEW: Add network rebuild function as optional
NEW: Add scripts to save NIC info
NEW Add scripts to remove old nic/recreate nic on Hyper-V
NEW Add scripts to recreate NIC info
NEW: Add scripts to recreate VLAN info
NEW: Add option to preserve and recreate MAC
NEW: Add checks to verify power states are set properly
NEW: Add BackUPVMNetwork to ConvertVM-Functions
NEW: Add VM-Wait and Net-Rebuild to ConvertVM-Process
NEW: Check to verify Network exists
NEW: Update Management functions with DisplayName
NEW: Change user exposed VM references to refer to “Display Name” not FQDN
NEW: Add collection cycle to include all data possible
NEW: Add VMList logic for new collection data
NEW: Add logic in update db to support new collection data
NEW: Revise Stored Proc
NEW: New SQL View “VMDETAILS_VIEW” rolling up all VM data
NEW: New data in SQL Temp table
NEW: New field in SQL Versions table
NEW: Add Warning field to catch any non-critical errors
NEW: Add Show-Status with new Warning field
NEW: Add reports with Warning field
NEW: Add Reset function with Warning
NEW: Add database/script version check
NEW: Tag DB with version
NEW: Tag Script with version
NEW: Add logic to verify and fail if not valid
NEW: Version Variable file
NEW: Add Check-version function
NEW: Add logic to skip functions
NEW: Add “dynamicdisk” to Variable.xml
NEW: Add logic to convert script to support /Dynamic
NEW: Add logic to support power on/off regardless of MVMC power states
NEW: Integrate MAt4Shift Options
NEW: Add new DB collection
NEW: Add new Stored Proc
NEW: Rename scripts to mirror MAT4Shift conventions
NEW: Add "tab complete" functions to ConvertVM.ps1
NEW: Add Collect option
NEW: Add Update option
NEW: Add Create-List option
NEW: Add region sections to ConvertVM-Functions
NEW: Add region sections for Convert-VM Logging
NEW: Add region sections for ConvertVM-Process
NEW: Alphabetize functions
NEW: Add function to open Notepad after Create-List
ALSO: More COWBELL
As always keep your comments and improvements coming!
Keep calm and migrate,
Migration Mark
- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hi Mark Just a small comment but in the documentation it lists this as a requirement.
- All required hardware is configured and already has Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 Enterprise installed. But there is no such thing as Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 Enterprise any more just Data Center, Standard, Foundation and Essentials. Davey
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I received an error attempting to run the .ConvertVM.ps1 Collect "Missing C:SourceMAT-BranchVariable.xml - Unable to proceed" Any idea how to correct this?Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
@MikeD I believe the MAT team answered you offline but this is actually a question for VMware. Invoke-VMScript cmdlet is part of PowerCLI and uses a somewhat unconventional security model.Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hello Migration Mark, I attempted to run the ConvertVM.ps1 Collect script and received the following error: ERROR - Your version of VMware 5.1 is not supported with the current version of MVMC/MAT. We have many clients that are running VMware 5.1 that would like to convert their VMs to Hyper-V. Will the MAT PowerShell be changed to support VMware 5.1?Anonymous
October 15, 2013
I get the following error: 10/15/2013 11:05:00 - WARNING - Unable to send scripts to MDTest 10/15/2013 11:05:00 AM Invoke-VMScript While performing operation 'Connect to host service 'https://<esxiserver>/sdk' at port 902' the following error occured: 'Insufficient permissions in host operating system' on Target:MDTest Why is it trying to connect to the esxi server instead of just going to vCenter? vCenter is governed by AD credentials and the only accounts on the esxi servers are root. Thanks!Anonymous
December 30, 2013
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