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• Where can I download Storage vMotion Plugin?

  Hello guys,.

  I'm looking to download Storage vMotion Plugin in vmware.com but I can't find...

  I have the vCenter Server version 5.1 Build 1235232... Is there something I missed?

  Thanks in advance for your answer

  Best regards

  
  

  Storage vMotion to migrate a virtual machine to another data store.  VMotion allows you to migrate a virtual machine to another host.  If you want to migrate a virtual machine to another host and store data at the same time, the virtual machine must be stopped.

  Also, please do not forget to mark answers useful and accurate.

  Thank you

• I can storage vMotion two popular VMS with shared disks?

  I have an ESX 3.0.2 Server with local storage and two ESX 3.5 with fiber channel SAN servers. Two VM sharing disks and run it on the computer with only the local storage. Can I use storage vMotion to move these to a 3.5 servers and more at the SAN?

  If not; can I migrate the servers (when closed) to the SAN and 3.5 servers without breaking the links on shared disks?

  If you close the virtual machines and migrate them, you should be able to access the disks - as the sVmotion update pointers in the vmx file.

  If you upsize and lose access to the disk, you will need to do is open the.vmx file for each virtual computer and update the path specified for each disc, not too hard to fix at all. -If you don't like that, you can simply remove and re-add the disc in the VM properties

• ESX 3.0.2 upgrade to 3.5 & Storage VMotion

  If I do a spot in an ESX 3.0.2 upgrade host ESX 3.5 CAN I use Storage vMotion immediately OR do I have to upgrade VMware tools on each host to the storage

  vMotion them in a new home?

  Hello.

  If I do a spot in an ESX 3.0.2 upgrade host ESX 3.5 CAN I use Storage vMotion immediately OR do I have to upgrade VMware tools on each host to Storage vMotion them in a new home?

  You can use Storage Vmotion immediately.

  Good luck!

• I can storage vmotion virtual machine containing the database of vCenter?

  I want to storage vmotion or the disk of the database and/or the OS disk in the virtual machine holding the vCenter, database (SQL)...

  Is - this recommended?

  It is an environment of ESXi 4.1 with NetApp NFS storage.

  Thank you

  Tom

  I never did but I found this blog post to a person who has successfully completed.  http://virtual-red-dot.blogspot.com/2012/04/can-you-storage-VMotion-vCenter-VM.html

• You can desktop storage vmotion view 4.6?

  I think that the answer is no because they use linked clones, but I wanted to ask anyway...

  Complete desktop storage vmotion, you can as far as I know but related cloens are not supported.   From a point of view linked clone, you can use the reblance option to place them on another data store.

• Se you can hacer Storage vmotion con Poole came con composer?

  Hola todos,

  Tengo labor Poole came con composer y el performance are practicamente igual al una Máquina sin composer

  Lo estaba tratando hacer're mover una Máquina fue created a pool of composer hacía datastore pero otro dentro sale me el editor that error.

  MI pregunta're TR estar creadas por las vm con composer not to pueden migrar an otro data store?

  Hola,

  Storage vMotion none are compatible only instant con, y entendiendo as composer works a base of Snapshots, clearly no ambos are posible usar.

  View Manager you can use the Rebalance funcion en clones to composer of storages of data change.

  Saludos,

• VSphere Storage VMotion - why I can't select specific .vmdks?

  Back in ESX 3.5, I used the Storage VMotion GUI to easily switch the virtual disks to store data in the data store.   Now that we are using VSphere, of course he has this built-in feature.  But I don't see a way to move from the individual .vmdks of a VM monkey - it only allows me to move ALL of them at once.

  If I have a VM with, say, 5 virtual disks - how can I move one of them to a different data store using the VIC?   I don't see a way with the Migration Wizard.

  Sven

  When you get to where you were in the screenshot 2, you must click on the "[location]" text next to the volume that you want to migrate.  This will display a drop-down list of your data warehouse, allowing that you select a destination for this volume.  You can do this to each vmdk, selecting targets of different data store for each group that you want to move.

  Virtualization of happy!

  JP

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• Can not put on the virtual computer after Storage VMotion

  I use the snap for the customer VI do some storage vmotion, where I can best use our space on our tables. I have a particular virtual machine that I transferred autour storage that has a total of 3 VMDK, all on separate LUNS. As soon as I moved them all in the right place, where I wanted them, I can't turn on the virtual machine because it says there is no space available on the device. I am trying to boot the machine with 4 GB of memory, the boot LUN more than 400 GB free on it. The other two LUNS have 225 MB, and 192 MB of free space. I can only start the machine if I change the memory of 192 MB or less. I know that problems with the file exchange and memory overhead, but this virtual machine has always run with these two LUNS with very little space. I can only assume it is somehow related to the storage vmotion. The pagefile is set to store the virtual machine and I'm still having the problem. Need help.

  Storage vmotion the VMX file of the LUN with more space (easier) or add manually a config parameter (settings, Options, general, settings) sched.swap.dir = / vmfs/volumes/DS/Machine

  (where DS and Machine related to your environment).

• question of vMotion and storage vMotion

  I have everything set, UCS 5108, ESXi host, VMs, I don't have a SAN connection yet... My question is if I can enable vMotion? Let's say I have a cluster in vCenter, within this group, I have attached two ESXi host, win2008 VM in an ESXi and running, I can migrate (using vMotion) as win2008 VM to an another ESXi without connection SAN?

  How storage vMotion to an ESXi host hardrive to an another ESXi host hardrive? Is this possible?

  Note: I have not connection SAN in this configuration

  One of the requirements for vMotion is shared storage that would allow visibility between source and destination ESXi hosts. (SAN, iSCSI or NFS).

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vSphere4/R41/vsp_41_dc_admin_guide.PDF

  pages 210 to 215

  You can use OpenFiler as an iSCSI for lab tests SAN

  http://www.Openfiler.com/community/download/

  Thank you

  Zouheir

• VM VCS-E drop off air after storage vMotion

  We had a VCS-E, which dealt with a few calls.  VMware has performed a task of vMotion of storage on the server and the VCS-E completely dropped out of the air.

  Cisco has said that vMotion is taken in charge even if you may lose packets (although he said nothing about storage vMotion).  However, this time fallen completely out of the air box until I restarted the VCS-E interface vSphere, after what he came back fine.

  Versions of the software:

  ESXi 6, VCS X8.6

  Any ideas?

  8.6 do not officially support deployed on ESXi 6.0.

  Official support is not added for ESXi 6.0 up to 8.7 - looks too that there is a known issue with ESXi 6.0 which is exceeded in the Notes on the network connectivity that can align with this situation.

  8.7 release notes for Page 4-

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/TD/docs/Telepresence/infrastructure/VCs...

  VM KB-

  https://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cm...

  Hans

• Question of Storage vMotion

  Hi all

  Newbie VMware admin here, I hope it's an easy question. I have several boxes of Microsoft SQL I need to move the drive on which the operating system is installed on, they have all RDM attached when I try a storage vmotion, it looks like her wanting to move all the drives instead of one, i have never attempted to move a system with RDM attached to it, but I need to get away from this former storage we have urged. All tips are appreciated thank you!

  Thank you

  You can migrate both at the same time, even if you choose a different destination.

  You're welcome and don't forget brand useful and/or correct answers.

• Storage vmotion esxi 5.5 to 6.0 does not not for some vm

  In a test cluster with 2 nodes with no storage storage shared (local only), host vmotion 5.5 to 6.0 host does not work.

  before the upgrade, I moved all the vm to a host.

  Then I upgraded to 6.0 host and tried to move all the VMS to the host 6.0 updated (moving host + storage).

  20 VM, 5 have been moved to the new host.

  Everyone always get error below.

  The VM Client are all the vm version 10 (but some of them improved 8 or 9).

  ClientOS Windows 2008, 2012 r2 and linux. Some with vmx3, some with e1000.

  The machines can be moved when turned off.

  After the off-vmotion, storage vmotion from 6 to 5.5 and return of 5.5 to 6 works again.

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  Failed to copy one or more of the disks in the virtual machine. See the journal of the virtual machine for more details.

  Impossible to implement disks on the destination host computer.

  vMotion-Migration [-1408040447:1427943699552189] konnte nicht den Stream-Keepalive read: Connection closed by remote host, probably due to timeout

  Beim Warten auf Daten Fehlgeschlagen. Fehler 195887167. Connection closed by remote host, probably due to delay.

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  VM - log:

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  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.299Z | VMX | I120: VMXVmdb_SetMigrationHostLogState: transits State hostlog of immigration to migrate "at source" mid 1427943699552189

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.307Z | VMX | I120: MigratePlatformInitMigration: file DiskOp set to /vmfs/volumes/526d0605-8317b046-f37e-0025906cd27e/test1/test1-diskOp.tmp

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.311Z | VMX | A115: ConfigDB: parameter migration.vmxDisabled = 'TRUE '.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.326Z | VMX | I120: MigrateWaitForData: waiting for data.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.326Z | VMX | I120: MigrateSetState: transition of State 8 to 9.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.467Z | VMX | I120: MigrateRPC_RetrieveMessages: was informed of a new message to the user, but cannot process messages from State 4.  Leaving the message in queue.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.467Z | VMX | I120: MigrateSetState: transition of State 9 to 10.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.468Z | VMX | I120: MigrateShouldPrepareDestination: remote host does not support an explicit step to prepare migration destination.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.469Z | VMX | I120: MigrateBusMemPrealloc: BusMem complete pre-allocating.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.469Z | Worker #0 | I120: SVMotion_RemoteInitRPC: completed.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.471Z | Worker #0 | W110: SVMotion_DiskSetupRPC: related disc expected but not found for the file: /vmfs/volumes/526d0605-8317b046-f37e-0025906cd27e/test1/test1-ctk.vmdk

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.471Z | Worker #0 | W110: MigrateRPCHandleRPCWork: callback RPC DiskSetup returned UN-successful State 4. RPC fault.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.493Z | VMX | I120: VMXVmdb_SetMigrationHostLogState: hostlog transits of State to fail to migrate 'from' 1427943699552189 environment

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.502Z | VMX | I120: MigrateSetStateFinished: type = 2 new State = 12

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.502Z | VMX | I120: MigrateSetState: transition of State 10 to 12.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.502Z | VMX | I120: Migrate: list cached migration error message:

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.502Z | VMX | I120: [msg.migrate.waitdata.platform] failed waiting for data.  Error bad003f. Connection closed by remote host, probably due to delay.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.502Z | VMX | I120: migration of vMotion [vob.vmotion.stream.keepalive.read.fail] [ac130201:1427943699552189] failed to read streams keepalive: Connection closed by remote host, probably due to timeout

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.502Z | VMX | I120: Migrate: cleaning of the migration status.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.502Z | VMX | I120: SVMotion_Cleanup: cleaning of XvMotion State.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.502Z | VMX | I120: Closing all disks in the virtual machine.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.504Z | VMX | I120: Migrate: Final status, who reported the force.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.504Z | VMX | I120: MigrateSetState: transition of the State 12-0.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.505Z | VMX | I120: Migrate: Final status, which reported VMDB.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.505Z | VMX | I120: Migrate Module switch has failed.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.505Z | VMX | I120: VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 0

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.505Z | VMX | I120: SVMotion_PowerOff: does not not Storage vMotion. Nothing to do

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.507Z | VMX | A115: ConfigDB: parameter replay.filename = «»

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.507Z | VMX | I120: Vix: [291569 mainDispatch.c:1188]: VMAutomationPowerOff: power off the power.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.507Z | VMX | W110: /vmfs/volumes/526d0605-8317b046-f37e-0025906cd27e/test1/test1.vmx: cannot remove a link symbolic/var/run/vmware/root_0/1427943694053879_291569/configFile: no such file or directory

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.507Z | VMX | I120: WORKER: asyncOps = 4 maxActiveOps = 1 maxPending = 0 maxCompleted = 0

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.529Z | VMX | I120: Vix: [291569 mainDispatch.c:4292]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: VarEtat = 1, newAppState = 1873, success = 1 additionalError = 0

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.529Z | VMX | I120: Vix: [291569 mainDispatch.c:4292]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: VarEtat = 0, newAppState = 1870, success = 1 additionalError = 0

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.529Z | VMX | I120: Past vmx/execState/val of poweredOff

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.529Z | VMX | I120: Vix: [291569 mainDispatch.c:4292]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: VarEtat = 0, newAppState = 1870, success = 0 additionalError = 0

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.529Z | VMX | I120: Vix: [291569 mainDispatch.c:4331]: error VIX_E_FAIL in VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished(): unknown error

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.529Z | VMX | I120: Vix: [291569 mainDispatch.c:4292]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: VarEtat = 0, newAppState = 1870, success = 1 additionalError = 0

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  Any idea to solve this problem? Maybe it's a bug with vsphere 6.0

  Given that some machines were functioning and vmotion later in both directions from 6.0 to 5.5 works, I think that is no configuration error.

  Hello

  It seems that there could be a bug or that guests have difficulties to negotiate the transfer of drive on a network. VMotions storage are carried out via the management network (limitation of hard due to the codification)-are you sure that management networks are not overloaded or that they operate at the desired speed? This also happens with machines that have actually disabled followed block? It seems that this could be a problem.

  In addition, you use the 'old' client or Web client? It is possible that some features in vSphere 6.0 may have been omitted in the old thick client.

  Below are the errors:

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.468Z | VMX | I120: MigrateShouldPrepareDestination: remote host does not support an explicit step to prepare migration destination.

  2015-04 - T 02, 03: 01:34.471Z | Worker #0 | W110: SVMotion_DiskSetupRPC: related disc expected but not found for the file: /vmfs/volumes/526d0605-8317b046-f37e-0025906cd27e/test1/test1-ctk.vmdk

  Thanks for the answers in advance and good luck!

• Storage test 55 certification vmotion, storage vmotion fails with "Could not lock file" on the virtual machine during storage vmotion

  In my view, that it is a known problem in ESXi 5.5 Update 2 release notes, someone knows a solution yet? This is an excerpt from the release notes:

  • Attempts to perform live storage vMotion of virtual machines with RDM disks can fail
    Storage vMotion of virtual machines with RDM disks can fail and virtual machines can be considered in turned off of the State. Attempts to turn on the virtual machine fails with the following error:
    
    Cannot lock the file
    
    Workaround: No.

  VMware support for the record said that the patch will update 3, it is known as an intermittent problem. Finally, it happened to me on the 9th attempt.

• storage vmotion 4 1 TB vmdk to a new data store 4TB on 5.5

  All,

  Benefit in performance if the 4 storage vmotion VMDK located on 4 separate data warehouses in a newly created 4TB data store. with 5.5 capacity 62, I was hoping that someone could tell me.

  I appreciate it

  Well well, the response - as before - is "it depends...". ».

  If you want to use a large drive or multiple small disks depends on the structure of data. If you can not divide the data into departments for example, projects, home/profile,... you can be better with a single large disk. Don't forget to use a GPT partition table, and you need to check if for example your backup software can handle that. Some image/VM based backup applications can backup and restore virtual drives very well, but do not have the ability to file level restore! Also don't forget that - disaster - restoration such a large virtual disk will take a significant amount of time during which data is not available for users. If the data structure allows to distribute to several virtual disks (you can always use DFS to present the data through a single share), I prefer this over the large virtual disk. With the smallest disks virtual, you will certainly have to watch each of them for free disk space, but you can increase the size of disk individually and restoration of a single virtual disk can be done much more quickly (with other discs still online / available to users).

  André