Summary

This article provides information for using Virtual Machine Import Utility for importing VM's in MachPanel.

Applies To

This article applies to MachPanel build v5.4.10 and above

Pre-requisites:

1. At least one VM Service Plan should be created.
2. The customer account should be present
3. Scheduled task should exist in VM for complete management.

Post-import tasks:

Verify and fix resources allocated to customer and reseller(Owner) according to actual usage.

Procedure

Please follow the below mentioned steps to bulk import VM's:

• Open MachPanel Control Panel, log in as Provider and navigate to Home » Import Utilities » Virtual Machine. In step-1 provide the Import Settings as shown in the snapshot below

In Step-1, Yo have to select owner and the Hyper-V server.

1. Select Owner.
2. Select Hyper-V Server.
3. Click on Next button.

SelectnVM's to Import

• In Step-2, you need to select the Virtual Machine you wish to import and associate them with the customer and service plan. You may select all VM's or import one-by-one.

• Click on Next button.

Subscription Information

In Step-3, you have to select either new subscription or the existing one.

NIC Settings

You need to specify "NIC setting" during import as shown below:

Please note Network Adapter name should be different (in case there are more than on adapter)
Following Powershell command can be used to rename adapters on Hyper-V (Powershell launched as Administrator)
Get-VMNetWorkAdapter -VMName "New Virtual Machine"|Where-Object MacAddress -EQ "000000000000"|Rename-VMNetworkAdapter -NewName ADAPTER2

Click on Manage button to configure NICs, click Continue import wizard, Click Finish.