Thanks for responding. Unfortunately I received the same message.
The VM I need to move, vCenter, is powered off.
vMotion is currently unavailable becase I have two hosts that are currently running on very different hardware.
We are replacing both hosts which will be identical but I can't shut the old host down until I migrate all the VMs off of it.
Connect-VIServer 192.168.1.6
Name Port User
---- ---- ----
192.168.1.6 443 root
Get-VM -Name vCenter | Move-VM -Destination vHost2.internal.housingnm.org
Move-VM : 12/29/2012 12:14:10 PM Move-VM Could not find VIContainer with name 'vHost2.internal.housingnm.org'.