Editing Managing your VMware vSphere Homelab without vCenter (section)

==PowerCLI==
PowerCLI won't let you do anything you're not licensed for- just because the Move-VM cmdlet exists doesn't mean it will run and let you vMotion guests- but you can use PowerCLI to move or copy VMs, there's just a bit of thinking involved to put the script together.
For example, to move a VM between independent ESXi hosts with no shared storage we could
# Shutdown the Source VM on the Source Host (see the Shutdown-VMGuest cmdlet)
# De-register the Source VM on the Source Host (see Remove-VM)
# Mount the Source Datastore as a PowerShell Drive (see Get-Datastore and New-PSDrive)
# Mount the Target Datastore as a PowerShell Drive
# Move the VM files (so all the config files, VMDK's etc) between the two Drives (see Copy-DatastoreItem)
# Register the (now Target) VM on the Target Host (see New-VM -VMFilePath)
# Power on the Target VM (see Start-VM)

All of these steps are available at the Free licensing level and higher.

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