Citrix Studio - Change Hypervisor Connection

In Citrix Studio, it is possible to create a new hypervisor connection, and move the VMs to that new connection. The reason new connection be created and we move VMs to that connection can be varies – from commissioning new vCentre server to changing to a new hypervisor platform (from Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware vSphere).

This post will explain on how to change the connection from current to a new one. The connection needs to be already established prior to implementation of this steps.

1.  RDP to Citrix Studio server, and launch PowerShell. Add Citrix snap-in by following below command.
   
   
   
   

   Command : asnp citrix*

   
   

   
   

   
   

   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   
2. Identify current and to be used Broker Connection IDs by using below command. In this example, I want to change from Hypervisor Connection UID 1 to Hypervisor Connection UID  3Command : get-BrokerHypervisorConnection
   
   
   
3.  Change the Hypervisor Connection UID to 3 by following below command
   
   
   Command : Set-BrokerMachine -MachineName "<Domain>\<VMName>" -HypervisorConnectionUid "<ConnectionID>"
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Result
   
   
5. Now let's have some fun. Let's change the Hypervisor Connection UID back to 1
   
   Command : Set-BrokerMachine -MachineName "<Domain>\<MachineName>" -HypervisorConnectionUid "1"
   
   
   
   
6.  Result
   
   
   
7. If we have more than 1 VDI machines to be moved, we can use below PowerShell script to ease the job.

asnp Citrix*

forEach ($Machine in get-Content C:\Temp\PSScript\machines.txt)

{

set-BrokerMachine -MachineName "$Machine" -HypervisorConnectionUid "3"

}