Migrate a Virtual Machine like a physical machine

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• 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}}

• 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.

• 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).

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

  Hi all

  My question is quite simple:

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

  Let's say we have two data centers:

  vcenter1

  -vm1

  -vm2

  vcenter2

  -vm3

  Is it possible to migrate vms between vcenter2 and vcenter1 programmatically? (or vice versa)?

  Also, I'm assuming that the appropriate VLAN and data warehouses across the different vcenters!

  Thank you

  Luis

  It is not possible, vMotion or migration live is in an instance of vCenter, it cannot be covered through two even if you have the data store accessible both vCenters and sets of the host. At best, you can unregister the virtual machine of vCenter 1 host and re-save as on vCenter 2 host, but once again, it is while the virtual machine is turned off.

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• 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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• Migration of virtual machines in ESXi 4.1 to 5.5 to new hardware

  I'm new to VMware and our company bought 4 new servers and a SAN to replace our old VSphere 4.1 installation of 12 year.  The old configuration consisting of a server VCenter 4.1 physics 2003, 2 Dell 2900 ESXi hosts and 1 MD300i SAN.  Gen9 again the Installer 4 HP DL360 (3 host 1 VCenterServer) and MSA 2040.  Can someone please explain to me what would be the best way to go about moving more of our VM current for the new hardware? I found this from a previous post here, but it does not move the virtual machine to a SAN to another.

  Migration of the VMs of ESXi 4.x to 5.5

  "If I understand your question, continue to build the new environment of 5.5 with your 3 hosts from scratch 'ignoring' your old hosts. Once your new environment up & running, connect 4.1 guests to your new server vCenter Server and vMotion to move virtual machines while they run to the new cluster (live migration without interruption).

  VMTools upgrades do not have place automatically during migration.

  Once your virtual machines on new hosts, update tools as usual and you can then also upgrade virtual hardware of your virtual machines.

  Virtual HW update is optional, though; If you do not have the VMs that need the new features you can skip this last step and keep them as they are. »

  TYIA.

  The previous answer is pretty good, but I would like to add a few elements.

  You can 'disconnect' your 4.1 hosts of your old vcenter with running virtual machines, and then when you connect the hosts in your environment of 5.5 it will import your VM running as well.  As long as you have properly configured virtual networks you can live migrate vmfs old host and the old store of data simultaneously via the web client as long as your esx license allows it.  Otherwise close your virtual machines down to 1 at a time to migrate them above.

  Alternatively, you can consider running your vcenter as a virtual machine within the cluster it manages.  This gives you some DRS and HA for vcenter, plus a 4th host for virtual machines.

  If you don't have additional license you can also install your new hosts of 5.5 and run for 60 days before that you upgrade your 4.1 licenses to apply to your new host.

• 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 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

• vMotion is not migrate running virtual machines

  It is a new installation of 2 host VSA.  I can only migrate computers when they are turned off.  When I try to migrate a virtual computer running, I get this error:

  Migrate virtual machine: a general system error occurred: vMotion migration failed because the ESX hosts were not able to connect to the network for vMotion.  Check network vMotion and physical network configuration settings.

  See the error of the stack for more details on the cause of this problem.

  Time: 14:47:04 09/11/2012

  Target: Test 1

  vCenter Server: MW-VCENTER-01. DerseInc.com error stack migration vMotion failed because the ESX hosts were not able to connect to the network for vMotion. Check network vMotion and physical network configuration settings.

  vMotion migration [173015045:1352494025051601] could not create a connection with the remote host

  < 10.80.0.4 >: ESX host the failed to connect on the network for VMotion Migration [173015045:1352494025051601] unable to connect to the remote host < 10.80.0.4 > < 10.80.0.5 > host: Timeout the vMotion failed because the destination host has not received the data from the source on the vMotion network host. Please check your network vMotion and physical network onfiguration settings and make sure they are correct.

  I have 2 VLANS on my extreme switch.  I can not vmkping by the hosts for the vMotion IPs.  What VLAN the vMotion IPs should be in?  Front-end or Back-End?  Here's my intellectual property structure:

  MW-VSPHERE-01 (VSA-1)	10.80.0.1 front End VLAN
  MW-VSPHERE-02 (VSA-0)	10.80.0.2 front End VLAN

  Default gateway	10.80.0.62
  vMotion on host MW-VSPHERE-01	10.80.0.4 front End VLAN
  vMotion on host MW-VSPHERE-02	10.80.0.5 front End VLAN

  VSA Cluster	10.80.0.8 front End VLAN
  VSA Cluster service	10.80.0.9 front End VLAN
  Mgmt IP for VSA - 1	10.80.0.10 front End VLAN
  IP for VSA - 1 data store	10.80.0.11 front End VLAN
  Primary IP address for VSA - 1	192.168.0.1 back-End VLAN
  vSphere functionality IP for MW-VSPHERE-01	10.80.0.4 front End VLAN
  Mgmt IP for VSA - 0	10.80.0.12 front End VLAN
  IP for VSA - 0 data store	10.80.0.13 front End VLAN
  Primary IP address for VSA - 0	192.168.0.2 back-End VLAN
  vSphere functionality IP for MW-VSPHERE-02	10.80.0.5 front End VLAN

  What is different when migrating a computer running and an engine out of VM migration?

  I've attached screenshots of the network for guests and the VSA Cluster configs.  What other information can I provide for troubleshooting?

  Thank you very much for your help!

  Tzuriel

  If ESXi hosts are still able to communicate with each other via a network that is enabled for management, the host is not partitioned.  Do you have other vmk interfaces enabled for management traffic?  If so, the two hosts would still be able to communicate with each other and would not be considered an event of host isolation.

  Take a look at the excellent deep dive HA post of Duncan.

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/VMware-high-availability-deepdiv/#HA-50isolated

• Help the migration of virtual machines

  My company is changing the data center in a co-location facility.  How the migration is performed, there are ESXi hosts and storage shared at Camp already.  Data warehouses are replicated to the storage to the camp of data stores with the same name.  The plan was to stop the virtual machines in the data center, removal of the inventory, browse the data store of one of the colo ESXi servers and add the virtual machine to inventory... Rinse and repeat.

  The problem we encountered had to do with the fact that each virtual machine has VMDK on several data stores.  This process only acknowledged the change of the primary VMDK, VMX file was always looking for 2 other volumes on the old warehouses of data, which could not be accessed camp.

  I have to think that there is a way to generate scripts to avoid this problem to occur.  If we know the identifier for the new storage volume, we should be able to generate scripts, Yes?

  I would like the script to read the VM names from a txt file, remove the virtual machine from the inventory on host1, browse the host2 data store (which is at Camp) and add the machine virtual inventory and then remove and re-add the other volumes, based on the name of the data store (if hard disk 2 is on datastore2 then use 9d0fac87...)

  Any help would be grately appreciated!

  Thanks in advance!

  -Ben

  Hello, BenLiebowitz-

  I looked through your script.  You were just on a good amount of it.  There are a couple of things to tweak and a number of things to correct.  Here is the script of update from what I've seen would / should change (and here is the explanation of the things that I've changed the code).

  # export list of Staging VMsGet-Folder -Name "Staging" | Get-VM | select Name | Sort Name | Export-CSV "c:\staging.csv" -NoTypeInformation
  
  # Get Staging VMs$stg = Get-Folder -Name "Staging"
  
   # Shutdown VMs (cleanly)$stg | Get-VM | Shutdown-VMGuest -Confirm:$false
  
  # Remove Hard Disk 2 and 3$stg = $null$stg = Get-Folder -Name "Staging"    ## getting Staging folder again$hdName2 = "Hard disk 2"$hdName3 = "Hard disk 3"$stg | Get-VM | Get-HardDisk -Name $hdName2,$hdName3 | Remove-HardDisk -Confirm:$false
  
  # Remove VMs from InventoryGet-Folder -Name "Staging" | Get-Inventory | Remove-Inventory -Confirm:$false
  
  ## then, disconnect from the vCenter to which you were connected
  
  ## then, when connected to the vCenter server in the co-location facility:# Add VMs to Inventory$esxhost = "prpp6-vmwhst23.i3global.net"$datastore1 = "someDatastoreName" ## need to set this value!
  
  ## and, add hard disks back to VMsforeach ($row in (Import-Csv c:\staging.csv)) {    $vmName = $row.Name    $vmxfile = "[$datastore1] $vmName/$vmName.vmx"    $vmNewVM = New-VM -VMFilePath $vmxfile -VMhost $esxhost
  
      # Add hard Disks 2 and 3    New-HardDisk -VM $vmNewVM -DiskPath "[transient_deviceid] $vm/$vm.vmdk"    New-HardDisk -VM $vmNewVM -DiskPath "[data_deviceid] $vm/$vm.vmdk"} ## end foreach
  

  Comments about what I've updated / changed:

  • To stop the virtual machines, you should be able to all channel the results of Get - VM directly to Shutdown-VMGuest (I rewrote which)
  • to remove the hard drive, 2 and 3, you can use the cmdlet Remove-hard drive and do it in the pipeline (I rewrote which)
    • the ' $vm = Get - VM $stg | Get-show"line in the foreach loop was going to be problematic, as you had: '$vm' contains managed objects views for all the virtual machines in the folder of staging, not only of the virtual machine currently being acted on this iteration, so things have been broken
  • the remove inventory line, you might want to add "-confirm: $false", as the default behavior may be at the request of confirmation
  • the "$esxhost = prpp6 - vmwhst23.i3global .net' line needed quotes the host name
  • you do not use the $fields variable anywhere, which can be removed
  • I've renamed the variable '$add' to '$row' for a little more clarity
  • in the part that adds the virtual machines to the inventory in the co - lo vCenter:
    • the part that tries to set the value of "$vm" is not quite right; I've updated that (and changed the name of the variable "$vmName" for clarity)
    • you did not initialize the variable "$datastore1" - you must set a value for it (and how you use it assumes that all of the virtual machines in the co - lo facility are on the same data store - is this the case?)
    • you need square brackets around the name of store data and quotes around the value for $vmxfile
    • for the call of New - VM, you might consider providing a folder with - location (if you want the VMs newly saved to a particular folder)
    • for calls of New-hard drive, you need quotes around the value - DiskPath

  I would give that a shot with just a single machine and see how things are going.  Let us know the result.

• Migration of virtual machines in ESX 3.0.1 &amp; 3.5 to vSphere 5

  We have severely old stand alone ESX 3.0.1 and 3.5 servers and finally acquired new equipment and a cluster in VMware vSphere Essentials and try to migrate virtual machines, so we can remove the old assets. Using Converter Standalone 5 I only abe to pass successfully the Windows 2008 SMV ESX 3.5. All Windows 2003/XP virtual machines fail with this generic message "Unable to obtain material information to the computer selected."

  I tried various solutions of workaround mentioned around forums such as change the Linux guest OS during the migration and take snapshots of the source without result. Joint are recent newspapers Converter - will try and earlier version of the converter now as I have seen mention of this being a potential solution.

  Ah, I see - redefine was useful in some cases, when the Iso Coldclone was used.
  This CD is no longer available

  Just copy the complete directories - the vmdk formats are compatible - and where the new server don't like old VMS they can usually be adjusted with small text file modifications