migration of virtual machines from vss to vds

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• 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.

• Migration of virtual machines from a data store, and then delete the data store?

  Hello

  I have a future deployment this month and my Director wants to build a new RAID 6 array, create a store of data with the new table and then move all the VMS to the newly created data store.

  Then he asked me to take the old data store and remove it and the available space between the deleted data store and other stores of data in our shared environment. The question is when the new raid is created and vm has migrated to the new data store, which is the best way to remove the data store empty and make sure that the space available for other data stores? Any help would be appreciated...

  Greg ~.

  If all controls are met, you can go ahead and take it apart without any problem.

  I have re-iterate below checks:

  -No virtual machine is in the data store

  -The data store is not part of the cluster data store

  -The data store is not managed by the DRS storage

  -IGCS is disabled for this data store

  -The data store is not used for vSphere HA heartbeat.

  Especially highlighted 2 controls. Please note that SIOC can be enabled on the data without SDR photo store

• Best way to migrate a virtual machine from local drive to Cluster?

  Hello

  For historical reasons, we set up a virtual machine in the local disk of the ESX host.  This host is not connected to the San, where there is one group of another 3 ESX host.

  We would like to remove this standalone ESX host and migrate the virtual computer to the Cluster.  Should what tools I use?  Can use us the converter to do?  If so, when we connect to the Infrastructure of VI, does connect to the version independent host ESX OR import this virtual machine to an ESX Hos in the cluster?

  Thank you

  Hello

  your ESX host is connected to your vCenter?

  If Yes just turn off the virtual machine right click in vSphere client and choose migrate. Select destination storage and ESX server and it will be migrated.

  If it's not I turn off the virtual machine and just copy the whole directory of the VM on the new ESX Server with scp on ssh.

  Concerning

• Migration of virtual machines from 3.5 to 4.0

  Hello

  We have an ESX 3.5 environment and build a new 4.0 environment. Both use different VC. We want to spend our VM the 3.5 environment 4.0 at some point and I was wondering what is the best way to do it?

  I can not put 3.5 hosts on the VC 4.0 without adding existing licenses, which I am a bit reluctant to do, so is there another way?

  Thank you

  Install a new vcenter4, you have 60 days free until you put your key.

  Then, install the VUM4 a basis for to the host, vm tools and material.

  MCP, VCP

• Migrate virtual machines from HP G7(single host) for HP G8 (Cluster) without shared storage

  Hello

  I have 2 esxi host (hp dl 380 G8) and put them in a cluster and other host esxi (dl 380 g7) and I have no shared storage and use local disks just now I must spend my VM G7 server a cluster of the G8 but I want to know I can join my cluster g8 g7 and migrate web vmware machines without any downtime?

  I want to know can migrate without downtime with localdisk? I have no shared storage

  Best regards

  BAbak

  can I join g7 to my cluster of the g8

  You can mix into clusters hosts all desired, even Intel and AMD at least that you enable EVC on the cluster (of course, HA or DRS require shared storage compatible/CPU). However, you need not to have even just cluster hosts to migrate virtual machines through vMotion between them.

  migrate web vmware machines without any downtime?

  Don't know what this "web vmware' but yes, because ESXi 5.1, you can use"enhanced vMotion"to live migrate virtual machines without service interruption from one host to another, even without shared storage:

  Migration with vMotion in environments without shared storage

  The usual vMotion requirements apply. Also you can only live migrate virtual machines from the old host to the new hosts because of different generations of CPU (and back as long as you don't have bike powered virtual machines on new hosts).

• 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

• Manually migrate virtual machines from the host is not responding.

  I have a 3 host cluster.  One of the guests became unresponsive.  Continue to run all the virtual machines connected to the host is not responding and I can't RDP for them.  I am able to SSH to the host does not respond, but not connect via vCenter.

  Restart the services will cancel the virtual machines running?  If this isn't the case, then what is the command to restart the services?

  What is the best plan to manually migrate those virtual machines for the other two hosts?

  SSH, cd to \usr\sbin, then run "services.sh restart" (without the quotes). Which will restart management services, with no impact to your VM. Then you should be able to re - connect with Vcenter.

• 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}}

• Move virtual machines from a to another data store

  Is there a recommended (or integrated) way to move propelled out of virtual machines from a data store? Or is it a cut simple and working of dough which can be done from any client PC connected to the underlying storage providers?

  If both, store data Source and Destination are connected to the same server vCenter, do Storage vMotion. Make a right-click VM--> migrate--> change of data store and select the Destination data store.

• How to move the virtual machine from one cluster to another cluster

  How to move the virtual machine from one cluster to another cluster

  If two Clusters are in the same data center, you could do a 'live' migration or vMotion, if that's the case.   If the virtual machine is turned off, it may be migrated regardless of the data center.

• 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.

• 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

• How one move the templates of virtual machine from one host to another host in the cluster even

  Hello

  Can you get it someone please let me know how to move the templates of virtual machine from one host to another host in the cluster even?

  Thank you

  James

  Welcome to the forums!

  Convert it to a virtual machine (right click on guest and choose the appropriateoption), move it through the migration feature (right-click Guest, and then choose "Migrate") and convert into a model (right click on guest again and choose to convert to a template).

  If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points to 'Correct' or 'Useful' responses Thank you!!

  AWo

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• Simple Question - How to move virtual machines from 1 box to another?

  Hello

  I'm new to VMware products so please bare my stupidity.

  I have 2 servers I received vSphere on. They have all two internal storage (SAN No. still ) which means I can't take advantage of vMotion. So that leaves me to figure out how would one move a Virtual Machine from one box to the other? I currently have two boxes configured with a vCenter Server under 1 datacenter server.

  The simplest solution (considering vCenter) is cold using migrate operation.

  André

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