Is it possible to migrate a virtual machine between vcenter servers programmatically?

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• Is it possible to migrate a virtual machine to thin provisioned disk?

  I have about 100 VM in a resource pool dedicated to called "Archive"... Well, archiving.  These virtual machines are currently powered off but every now and then we will get pulled for a developer to work on (they are for the most part, the virtual computer with client customizations if they are changed about once a year).  I'm quickly running out of space on this SAN but all discs are thick provisioned and using the disc is maybe 20-30% on average.  Also, I want to move them to a new large store of data I created for them.

  Of course, I choose Migrate & gt; Change store data & gt; Thin provision in vSphere Format and I'm done.  However, it would be nice to not do this 100 times.

  Move-VM does not seem to be capable of this, and I have not been able to find a workaround.  Is there a way to convert the thin and then perhaps Move-VM? Or I'll just on this all wrong.

  Thank you!

  You can try this script?

  He's moving vms to data store 'EMCSAN:Datastore01' trying to change the format of storage for Thin

  $dsView = Get-Datastore -Name "EMCSAN:Datastore01" | Get-View -Property Name
  
  Get-VM  | % {
  $vmView = $_ | Get-View -Property Name
  
  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
  $spec.datastore =  $dsView.MoRef
  $spec.transform = "sparse"
  
  $vmView.RelocateVM($spec, $null)
  }
  

  / Yasen

• Migrate a virtual machine Fisical VCenter

  Buenas,

  Hello.

  I need to migrate a Vcenter 4.1 running in a virtual machine (with the default installation) to a physical machine.

  I know the process is like this:

  • Stop the Vmware services
  • Open SQL management studio and make a backup a Vmware DB.

  My doubts are:

  Should I install separately located in the Vcenter ISO Sql create a DSN pointing to this SQL instance, create DB, restore it from the backup and installing vcenter, choose this DSN and "keep existing DB" or similar.

  or

  What can I install Vcenter in default mode (then then finish etc. ), automatically install SQL Server, DB, and the DSN; and restore this DB form the backup (in other words, crushing the fresh new DB created automatically)
  

  In the first option, I'm afraid because according to this file official http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_compatibility_matrix.pdf , vmware provides that if you use SQl express (as the default installation), you will have a 5host and 50 VM limit, but I am runnig 6 guests right now without any problem! Any comment on this?

  Another problem is to create the DSN. In data sources, I see that sql server and client installed nativle, but I get a timeout of the connection when I try to set up the system DSN. I have the firewall turned off, etc., but it's like there is a missing configuration... Do I have to install the native client anyway?

  On the second option, I do not know if restoring the backup would be an adequate procedure...

  PS: care of the machine: Win 2008 R1 x 64, Vcenter 4.1.

  Thx a lot.

  Yes it is possible.

• Migration of virtual machines to vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 6.0

  As the title eludes to, we are standing up a new physics 6.0 Server vCenter Server and need to migrate virtual machines of 4.1 6.0 guest hosts.  I'd love to take the time to create a script that does the following; However, before heading down this path, I wanted to do a ping of the group to see if someone has done something like this before or have pointers to scripts that perform some of these actions already.  Some background and concept:

  • Running 4.1.
  • A new physical Center of vCenter 6.0 will be deployed side-by-side with 4.1.
  • The existing configuration of vSphere HA allows for 1-2 guests down without impact to the virtual machines.
  • The two environment and will be Cisco N1KV, SAN access shared for the same data storages.
  • A new vCenter will be lifted.
  • A single host is identified and VMs evacuated to the remaining hosts.
  • This host will be in maintenance mode, removed from the cluster and close.
  • A clean install of ESXi 6 will be done and set up spec.
  • N1KV will be deployed.

  To digress on the details at the moment... Now markets PowerCLI desired.  This idea is ad hoc and on the fly, so as I write this.

  • identify all the virtual machines associated with a specific data store - will need to work with the local client to schedule downtime for virtual machines
  • Stop the virtual machine
  • Remove the VM of the vCenter 4.1 inventory
  • to connect to vCenter 6.0
  • Add the virtual machine to the vCenter 6.0 inventory (and once we have passed the first host in the new cluster, automatically place the virtual machine by using the DRS)
  • Reconfigure the vmnic with the new Cisco 1000V dvs (will be the same name on both sides, but has a different ID)
  • pull in the keys and the values to a CSV and advancedsetting set to harden
  • Turn on the virtual machine
  • Perhaps a test of ping for the NETWORK card to check connectivity

  The order in which the steps are performed can be switched around, as long as the desired end result is the same: migration effectively virtual machines between two disparate solutions with single medium sharing as a data store.  In which I realize will always be VMFS3.  New data stores VMFS-5 is another task for another time.

  Thank you for your time, suggestions, links, etc...

  @LucD - hi.

  These steps are quite possible with PowerCLI.

  See the script after skeleton, he probably needs some adjustments to fit your environment and requirements

  $dsName = "xyz".

  $vm = get - VM - $dsName data store

  Stop-VMGuest - VM $vm - confirm: $false

  Remove-VM - $vm VM - confirm: $false

  Disconnect-VIServer-Server vc41 - confirm: $false

  $vc6 = Connect-VIServer-Server vc6

  $newVM = $vm | New-VM - DiskPath $_. ExtensionData.Config.Files.VmPathName - confirm: $false

  # Suppose a CSV file with

  # Key, value

  # key1, value1

  # key2, value2

  $advSettings = import-Csv - UseCulture advSettings.csv

  {foreach ($obj in $newVM)

  $advSettings | %{

  Get-AdvancedSetting - $obj entity - name $_. Key |

  Game-AdvancedSetting - value of $_. Value - confirm: $false

  }

  }

  Start-VM - $newVM VM - confirm: $false

  $newVM |

  Select Name,

  @{N = "Available"; E = {Test-Connection - ComputerName $_.} Guest.HostName - County 1 - Quiet}}

• Moving virtual machines between ESX environments

  Hello-

  I understand that when you try to move a virtual machine between two servers to ESX 3.5 disparate, one way to proceed is to use WinSCP to move the files to the machine and then 'register' the machine via the data store on the destination ESX navigation area.  I also read, however, that this practice may not be wise because it is better to execute a command to import, I think that vmkfsutil or something similar to this.  Hope to find confirmation on what would be the best practice in this scenario.

  Thank you very much in advance.

  Why not VMware vCenter Converter

• Can you pass offline virtual machines between data warehouses using the 'Migration' with the basic Kit Essentials feature?

  I speak not of Essentials Plus vMotion between hosts or migration of VMS between hosts and data warehouses online. Just curious to know if its possible to off a virtual machine and click the button to migrate to another store of data with the basic Essentials bundle.

  Welcome to the community - Yes you can - it's what we call a cold migration.

• migrate virtual machines between linked vcenters 5.1

  Hi all, is it possible? can I migrate virtual machines to different servers of vcenter ├a the State of related modes? Thank you

  If you want to try to move to a different data store, then you can consider V2V as well.

• How to migrate a virtual machine from the server with DAS to another server

  Hi guys,.

  questions. 'More' essential Kit. VMotion is available

  I have 2 physical servers, two of them have DAS (not SAN Central). SO I want to migrate a virtual machine on server A to server B. is it possible in this situation?

  Or should I have versions of more expensive VMWare do?

  Thank you
  Dmitry

  You can use clone. I would close first to the bottom of the virtual machine, but a VM slowed would be very nice clone. You can also use the VMware conveter. VMware converter can make a hot clone, including synchronization of last-minute changes, stop the source machine and put under tension the clone.

• Problem with Migration hot virtual machines Hyper-V

  Dear support

  I am facing problem in Live Migration of Virtual Machine in Windows 2012 of Hyper-V R2 cluster. Here are the details for my current setup.

  Two windows 2012 R2 Datacenter even care Server (HV01 and HV02) both in cluster

  A Virtual Machine created the Volume share of Cluster (c:\Cluster storage\...)

  A network adapter dedicated to the management of server-> 10.0.1.11 (HV01) and 10.0.1.13 (HV02)

  A network card dedicated to Hyper v Virtual Machines-> 10.0.1.12 (HV01) and 10.0.1.14 (HV02) and allow networking option is disabled.

  A network card for the heart beats-> 10.0.20.1 (HV01) and 10.0.20.2 (HV02)

  A network card dedicated for Live Migration-> 10.10.10.50 (HV01) and 10.10.10.51 (HV02) and chosen to be used only for the live migration fails on cluster network settings

  I added the Virtual Machine Cluster Failover successfully without error or warning. When I do a quick migration his works fine but when I do live migration his error giving 21502.

  Please update what's wrong with my setup

  Hello

  Post your question in the TechNet Server Forums, as your question kindly is beyond the scope of these Forums.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?category=WindowsServer

  See you soon.

• Deletes a virtual machine of vCenter possible?

  Hi all.

  We used to be a Horizon view manual pool composed of virtual machines
  from vCenter server. In a single operation for removal of VM in view, we

  wrong selected pool and confirmed the deletion. The

  operation put merrily and when we realized the error, we

  find vsphere client that all VMs funds (a lot of them

  were running) in the manual pool view both were removed from the inventory

  and from the disc in vCenter server.

  This offends and confuses us. It is commonly accepted that it is
  Cannot delete a virtual machine running of vCenter: vSphere client no
  won't give you a possibility to do so, and doing so in a CROWD ends by default.
  But the view above disaster might suggest otherwise.

  I have two questions:
  1. is it possible to delete a virtual machine running of vCenter?
  2. If so, how to prevent in vCenter?
  3. (somewhat off topic) is it possible to come up with any hacking or

  This makes it impossible to remove vm disk Office while being

  able to manipulate the view of the pool? We prefer to rather in vCenter.

  =====================================
  The mistake that we made to remove all the Horizon view desktop VMs:
  1. login to VMware view Horizon administrator.
  2. based on the inventory, select the pool.
  3. in the view of the pool, select the tab "inventory."
  4. Select and right click on a desktop PC, select 'delete pool... '. »
  5. confirm the deletion.

  Software used:
  vCenter Server: 5.5.0, 1945274
  View of the horizon: 5.3.1 generation-1634134

  Kind regards
  Nathalie Sun

  Post edited by: sunrenjie6

  Hello Sun Nathalie,

  Finally, I was able to create your question on my test bench, but as I said earlier, it is not possible to remove a power on the virtual machine, which was true. When I deleted the pool which consists of power on VM, I saw in the VC that VM were power off first and delete.

  I also talk to the team from the horizon and they said that this device is designed this way to support several other features. To save accidental deletion of the s VM that they introduced the warning message.

  Sorry for your loss.

  Thank you

  DJ

• Migration of virtual machines to vCD and again in a standard ESXi cluster itself?

  We currently have a relatively small cluster of ESXi (5.0.0 1489271) which uses a dedicated installation vCenter (5.0.0 1300600) and an instance of vCD (vCD 5.1.2.1068441).  Our goal is to move the virtual machines running in this configuration to our standard ESXi clusters (5.5.0 1892794) supported by installation of different vCenter (5.5.0 1891313).

  The instance of vCD seems to add additional parameters to the level of the virtual machine that prevents the VM of to be easily transferred out of the instance of vCD.  What we are looking for is a way to easily migrate these servers on and completely remove the vCD of the equation.  The only details around that we found cause downtime for exports out of vCD can be extended to reason the total amount of drive to the VM and VM level, which we really do not think it is an option to open a window of time to stop long enough to work through this process.

  Did someone went down this road before?  We have approximately 120 virtual machines in the cluster vCD using about 52 TB of disk.

  Maybe we're wrong understand something fundamental about the nature of migration of VMs on the vCD instance, but we have not been able to find many details on what options exist to make this move.  We have spoken several times with VMware support in this regard.  They mentioned a potential tool in the work within engineering migrate vCD to vCAC (which isn't really fall under our goal unless vCAC would then provide a clear path to return the virtual machines to a standard ESXi cluster).

  Any suggestions or ideas are appreciated.

  I am a colleague of GTC and wanted to just sent to our discussion of this topic with the help of VMware.  Basically, we should be able to Setup VMs in vCenter, outside of vCloud Director, pointing them to the same files VMDK and MAC then power off VM vCD and power on VM vCenter.

  : The NASA-EAST region

  Moment of validation: 2014-09-05 11:32 EDT

  Severity of the request for assistance: 4 - low

  Description of the request for assistance: we are looking for ways simple and less disruptive migrate VMS off vCloud Director and vCenter management.

  We have the advantage of a single principle in vCloud, managed by a vCenter and the network configuration is simple with no VXLAN.

  What are the problems with the realization of the following?

  vCD 5.1 is managed by vCenter 5.0, the final result will move VMs in vCenter even

  -Create a new virtual machine in vCenter that points to the same vmdk files as virtual machine in vCD you want to migrate, allocate same configurations of processor, memory, and network (we do not use the vCD with advanced networking)

  -Turning off the virtual computer in vCD

  -Once the vCD WHAT VM is off, power on VM in vCenter

  We must ensure that the VM vCD never gets turned on again and then when we are completely finished with all migrations of VMS in vCenter we abandon vCD.

  Of course there are details to help users migrate to how they use the vCD to vSphere vCenter client web interface or web interface.

  Entry date: 04/09/2014

  Since the opening of the case, I had interviews with several members of VMware support staff and these additional points were added.

  -Configure vCenter VM with the same vNIC driver MAC and like vCD VM vNIC

  -Rename VMDK files to make for easier management, or if not renamed then detach from the propelled out of vCD VM

• How to migrate a virtual machine of vsphere vsphere 4 5

  I have a vsphere 4 and a 5 of vsphere, I want to migrate a virtual machine of vsphere vsphere 4 5

  my method is export ovf model and deploy the model of the FVO in vsphere 5, but it shows "end of file EGGS reached while looking for: * hard.

  How can I work my problem

  Thank you very much

  Hello

  Why are you trying with VMware Converter?

  https://my.VMware.com/Web/VMware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/5_0

  It's the right tool for this kind of tasks/migration

  However, if you share with us details about your environment, we can help you more accurately.

  Concerning

• Require a process step by step for the migration of virtual machines to new VMware ESX hypervisor

  Hello

  I'm looking for the method step by step for the migration of virtual machines to new host ESX Migration both cold and hot.

  Scenario - I have two data centers running ESX host stand-alone (with VM) in Europe. I need to build the new ESX host in new Dataceter to Singapore.

  Need prerequisites, the methods available for migrate VMWARE virtual has new host ESX (in the new data center) with minimum downtime.

  It will be great if you can enumerate the markets or redirect me to documentation that I can use to create detailed steps as the target host compatibility check on VMs and so on.

  Please advice

  Concerning

  AVI

  The steps are correct. The virtual machine must be turned off (step 3).

• Migrate a virtual machine with snapshots.  Works?

  In the past, moving VMs between databases or host with snapshots was deadly.

  It still happens in ESX4?

  ESX4 does not throw the warning, as did ESX3.5.

  You can migrate a virtual machine with snapshots, you can just see a different question.  You try to make a vMotion in vCenter?

  What is the symptoms you see?

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1005228

• Problem migrating a virtual machine

  Hello!

  I have a problem when I try to migrate a virtual machine to the concrete only two hosts. I have no problem in other guests in my infrastructure. When I try to start this operation I get the following error message: "cannot migrate from esx1.domain.com to esx2.domain.com: the host CPU is incompatible with the function CPU requirementes of the virtual machine; problem detected the CPUID level 0 x 80000001 register edx.

  With other virtual machines, I have no problem and I can migrate from any host to any of them.

  Hi Eric,.

  Please check this link below:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=1001131&sliceId=1

  Seems to be the answer to your problems.

  Please give feedback if this solves the problem

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