Mass migration of softlayer vms to new hosts

gistfile1.txt

#!/bin/bash

TYPE=${1:-server}

while :; do
  VSID=`slcli virtual list --columns id,hostname,pendingMigrationFlag | grep "$TYPE" | grep True | head -1 | cut -d ' ' -f1`;
  if [[ -n "$VSID" ]]; then
    echo "Next item to migrate: $VSID"
    slcli vs detail "$VSID"
    slcli call-api Virtual_Guest migrate "--id=$VSID"
    if [[ "$?" -eq "0" ]]; then
      echo "Waiting for the migration to complete..."
      while :; do
        sleep 5
        STATE=`slcli vs detail "$VSID" | grep active_transaction | awk '{print $2}'`
        if [ "$STATE" = "NULL" ]; then
          echo "Migration finished"
          break
        else
          echo "Current state: $STATE"
        fi
      done
    fi
  else
    echo "No vs found to migrate"
    break
  fi
done