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• Problems of migration of a virtual machine

  Hello

  I have a problem when you try to migrate a virtual machine to an ESXi to and another ESXi. I migrate from power off State. That's what I get:

  

  I have 2 ESXi host with vCenter device.

  When I go to the preview of the hosts, in the first (it is the destination of the migration), I have no CPU usage and memory. There is something wrong because I have the vCenter and other Linux machine powered:

  

  The other host (this is the source of the migration) looks good:

  

  How could I solve this problem?

  I'd really appreciate your help.

  Best regards.

  Thanks for the reply.

  I reboot the host and now I can migrate and CPU and memory info is correct.

  Kind regards.

• List not updated virtual machines after the migration of the virtual machine to a different data store

  My vSphere infrastructure 5 uses several data stores.

  Two data warehouses are associated with NFS on different NAS shares.

  I migrate VM to a data to another store.

  The navigation data store, I see that the files are moved from the old data store to the new and that no file belonging to the migrated VM still does exist on the old data store.

  If I look at the list of VMs on the old data store, I still see the old VM.

  I see it in the list of the virtual machine on the new data store as well.

  I checked that no .iso no pagefile is in the old data store.

  How can I update the list of the virtual machine on the old data store?

  Above all, how can I safely delete the old data store by ensuring that the virtual machine works very well on the new data store and I don't lose anything?

  Concerning

  Marius

  This use of data store 'Phantom' is usually observed, if the current configuration of the virtual computer points to the 'old' data store (diskette, CD-ROM) or the virtual machine contains snapshots where - at the time where tone have been created - the VM has had these references. Once the snapshots are deleted from data store 'ghost' will go away from summary of the virtual machine.

  André

• One migrated from my virtual machine to another host VSphere and it does not start

  I have a virtual machine that I've initially converted to Hyper-V to host VSphere. After I did it would start very well, but I got up two errors when starting.

  "An IDE controller is found but the VM does not support the option" and

  "A plate supporting the option not found."

  When I looked at the hard drive in the settings it looks like it is not supported. Is it because I badly converted to Hyper-V to VSphere using VMWare Converter?

  But now, I configure VCenter Server and tested a migration of these machines to another host and using the VSphere Client. It does not start now. I get an error message that says.

  "Device 'drive hard 1' uses a controller that is not supported." This is a general limitation of the compatibility of the virtual machine with the selected host ESXi version. »

  Remember that it is the same VSphere host it is running on initially. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

  If it works now - is that correct? n ' forget not to award points useful and/or correct

  I removed these entries;

  ide0:0. FileName = 'PIC-JVM-v0001 - 000001.vmdk ".
  IDE1:0. Present = 'TRUE '.
  IDE1:0.clientDevice = 'TRUE '.
  IDE1:0. DeviceType = "cdrom-raw"
  IDE1:0.startConnected = "FALSE".
  ide0:0. Redo = «»
  IDE1:0. FileName = ' / usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso '.
  scsi0:0. DeviceType = "scsi-passthru.
  scsi0:0. FileName = ' / vmfs/devices/cdrom/mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 '.
  scsi0:0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE".

  And added to them;

  ide0:0.clientDevice = 'true '.
  ide0:0. DeviceType = "cdrom-raw"
  ide0:0.startConnected = "false".
  scsi0:0. FileName = 'PIC-JVM-v0001 - 000001.vmdk ".
  scsi0:0. DeviceType = "scsi-disk" hard
  scsi0:0. Redo = «»

  Although there is a high probability that the other six you have to do will be similar to this, they will have to be assessed individually and modified accordingly.

  See you soon,.

  Jon

• Doubts about cloning/migrating off the virtual machines on the network

  Hello

  I'm going to have some problems of connection while cloning/migration power VMs on different hosts on ESXi5 off. I don't know is this procedure for moving a VM off will use the vMotion network, or just the normal management. I have a lot of is speeds when copying VMs on several different hosts, so I wonder what I could do to make sure that the speeds are overfished? I have all the hosts that are connected on a gbit switch.

  Thank you!

  Yes, two links are used, even when you vMotion a single virtual machine. Here is an official KB article.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2007467

  A quick test (only VM vMotion) confirms this, as evidenced by the performance tables;

  Source (transmit - these two vmnic is used);

  

  Destination (receiving -serve two vmnic);

  

  See you soon,.

  Jon

• Maintenance mode migrates is most Virtual Machines running

  Anyone know why they kidnapped the VMotion feature automatically running and stop virtual machines on a host that is put in Maintenance Mode?  Since a recent installation of vSphere 4, I noticed a host in maintenance mode will migrate VMs that are stopped, but not running VMs.  I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this and maybe knows why?

  Thank you!

  I had this same problem with vSphere 4 until I finally realized I had to change the settings of CAC on the cluster.

  Please graphics to order the 2 below. I think you'll see the error message then the resolution in the second chart.

  If this action was resolved for you, please reward me with the correct answer.

  Thank you!

  David Davis, vExpert, VCP, CCIE

  Author of videos of VMware ESX Server Train Signal available at the training seminar:

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• Problem of migration of a virtual machine with multiple vCPUs

  When I try to migrate some of our virtual machines with vMotion, I get the following error.

  «Impossible to migrate from host a to host b: virtual machine has 4 virtual CPUs, but the host only supports 1.» The number of virtual processors can be limited by the selected guest OS for the virtual machine or the granting of licenses for the host".

  The two ESX Server are identical HP DL380 with two quad core Intel Xeon. They are both connected to the same server vCenter (2.5). They both use the same license server. And, the VM OS is set to Windows Server 2003 Enterprise (32-bit), which is responsible for 4 vCPUs (it does now after all).

  I tried moved under voltage power VM off and got the same error, so I changed the vCPU to 1 and it migrated correctly. Then, I changed it to 4 vCPUs with no problems on the new host. Only problem is, I can't stop some of the virtual machines to migrate to the new host because of the availability requirements.

  ~ Brian

  Have you tried to change the settings of your license and apply them, just in case where?  I had the weird services fails when there is a kind of latency hit the license of the ESX host server.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• Migration of a virtual machine with two RDM physical to a newly created VMFS Datastore 5.0

  Dear all,

  I'm redrawing the storage storing all the VM, I have a machine virtual with two physical RDM to 2 TB each, with only 800 consumed Go, the question is can I svMotion to the new 2.5 to data store? the virtual machine (40 GB VMDK, RDM TB 2 * 2)

  Thank you.

  
  Djak44

  Hello

  Is there a particular reason that you must keep the RDM devices? Personally, I would keep away using the RDM disks because they can cause massive headaches.

  If you go with again in RDM as described already sure to go virtual in order to have the added capacity for RDM

  Gregg

• Migration of a virtual machine or a new physical box vCenter?

  Recently, I renewed my license for ESX 3.x for vSphere license keys.  I am now looking to upgrade my hosts of ESX 3.5 u5 to vSphere.  The vCenter esx 3.5 database is hosted on a physical SQL 2000 Server.  I bought the license for MS SQL 2005, but I don't want to do a upgrade inplace on the area physical virtual Center for many reasons that are not part of this community.  So now that I'm at a crossroads, set up a new virtual machine on the esx 3.5 existing hosts for installing vCenter and SQL 2005 to restore the existing database of vc to?  Or should I look to buy a new physical server to dedicate to vCenter and the database to MS SQL 2005 to vCenter?

  In my environment, I have 3 ESX host running on the blades with a total of 10 VM operation.  In the future, I'm looking to virtualize a couple of SQL boxes once I get running vSphere.  If you were me what would you do with vCenter?

  like saying it will "eat your own dog food".

  For us, we have 9 instances of vCenter and all run as a virtual machine, with the exception of 3. When that get-enviornment upgrade vSphere4, vCenter Server VM.

  This facility is fully supported and works a lot.  In addition, you will receive HA/DRS.  I would say affecting your restart your VM vCenter high priority.

  This is a good document as well

  http://communities.VMware.com/docs/doc-11197

• Problem of migration of virtual machine of a store of data in another data store

  Hello

  I've migrated from the virtual machine to a data store to another data store
  but the virtual machine present in both store data even after migration successfully
  and when I stop the virtual machine, then it shows that in the new data store.

  Please tell us what could be the possible reason for the same

  Appreciate your quick response.

  Kind regards

  Hakim. B

  
  

  Dear all,

  Finally, I found the solution.

  I had stop the virtual machine, replaced by location always store with the virtual machine swap file and restarted the VM.

  Kind regards

  Hakim. B

• Migrate the virtual machine for Exchange 2010 from one host to another

  Dear members,

  Please let know us if the migration of a virtual machine for Exchange 2010 is supported to an Esxi host to another, the Esxi version is 5.0.

  There are unique Exchange environment with the role of hub, CAS and mailbox on the same virtual server. We have a maintenance window and we think moving exchange virtual machine from one host to another, but before that I need to be sure if it's supported my MS and do not want to have problems after, because I have also gotten to know here in the forums this snapshot for Exchange 2010 is not supported by Ms.

  Please notify.

  Kind regards

  I'm not aware of any limitations with VMS Exchange migration. Anyway, you can consider running the migration during the low workload.

  André

• Resources to completely migrate all virtual machines

  I have 2 ESX4 hosts in a cluster.  Each has 32 GB of memory and 2 Quad Core 2.0 GHz processors.   The host has 22VMs with 20 GB of memory and 3 GHz committed treatment while the other has 21 virtual machines using 18 GB memory and committed treatment of 5 GHz.   Now, although a VMworld to which I attended some time ago, I remember a discussion about memory "slots" and if I remember well, to migrate all my VMs from one host to another, there must be sufficient memory and CPU on the host resources 'accept' to allow all the VMS to be propelled to the top... is this correct?   In other words, if I had to migrate all my virtual machines from the host that currently has 22 VMS (20 GB / 3 GHz treatment), the other host must have at least 20 GB and 3 GB treatment yet available for these virtual machines in a State "lit.

  I ask this question especially for purposes of Manager update that I intend to each of these host ESX patch... because, as I do the correction, the virtual machines will be transferred from one to the other.

  Is this correct?  If so, I won't be able to patch hosts, UNLESS some of the virtual machines are turned off (and therefore stay in the host that is being patched)

  Slots are for admission control VMware HA.

  If you disable this feature, you can approve the memory.

  André

• Migration of a large number of virtual machines between servers

  I have a single ESX server and VirtualCenter (vSphere 4).

  I need to migrate all my virtual machines (30) to a new server, I'm.  They are all turned off (I use them as test beds a small number at a time).

  For the transition, I added two servers in my data center vCenter. I can migrate each VM individually, but it will be extremely painful and long.

  If anyone can recommend a way for me to start moving all virtual machines and let it run for a few days or longer, however it takes, perhaps through orders in the Service Console or?

  Thank you!

  As long as the virtual machine have several virtual disks on different banks of data/files, you should be able to copy files by using for example Veeam FastSCP.

  If you have disks to different stores of data/files, you will need to reconfigure the virtual computer on the target (changing settings or edit the VMX file) because of UUID data warehouses.

  Before copying the files on the new host:

  -remove all attached CD/DVD or ISO virtual machine

  -Reset default CPU flags, see KB1011294 - a host processor is not compatible error message...

  André

• Try to migrate a virtual machine with storage vMotion

  Hello

  When I try to migrate a virtual computer to another data store (using storage vmotion - change datastore option on migration Assistant) I still see this warning on the migration wizard: this virtual machine must be powered off to perform this function.

  I'm completely lost, because I check the requirements to make a storage vmotion:

  1. license compliance: OK, we are authorized this feature

  2 source and destination storage of data available on the host: OK

  3. no snapshots: OK

  So, I do not understand why this message...

  What can I do? (of course I can't turn off the virtual machine).

  Thanks in advance.

  Which is my point... The message is related to the option greyed out only...

  / Rubeck

• Migrate virtual machines

  The current environment is made up of 2 servers ESX 3.5 and virtual Center hosted in a virtual machine 2.5.

  12 virtual machines live on local storage is distributed among 2 ESX servers, there is no shared storage.

  The goal is to migrate those virtual machines on an iSCSI SAN solution.

  What is the recommended method for the migration of these virtual machines to the shared storage device AND keep the original files of the machine on the local storage?

  Thanks,-Jeff

  I clone the virtual machine and configure it to use the shared storage then the stop virtual machine existing and power on the 'News' of the virtual computer.