Migration of VMs between data warehouses

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• EX 3.5 migration of VMS between data warehouses

  Hi all

  Don't know if this is location of correctr but I don't know that it will be moved required

  Scenario - I have a very small server ESX 3.5 with VM hosted on 6. We recently plugged in and set up a SAN and I'm trying to migrate servers from local storage to the San, one at a time. I wrote a script that works on the my ESX 3.5 bed test system, but does not work on my production system. I can't the biggest hard drives on the production system to copy. I run the script as a scheduled task on Saturday afternoon, after I have confirmed that my backup of vRanger connection is completed. I reason I do a "cp" oppsoed suddenly, I like the idea of being able to fall back to the original virtual machine is required. I know that most of the script is working as I can see the original virtual machine power off or not and all the files except the VMDK copied during the local storage to the San.

  I have attached the script that I use as well as the log file which follows from the weekend final run. Can someone please take a look and see what I'm doing wrong? It's driving me crazy.

  Only, we have unique ESX connected to the San, and don't use vmotion. The SAN is connected and (I hope) properly configured.

  concerning

  Gord

  What files are missing? Compare your source files and destination, in the case. You can also watch this http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1000936 Ko to verify if you don't a not build anything.

  Your script worked on another host, it should also work on that one.

  Good luck.

  Concerning

  Franck

• Movimentacao between data warehouses

  Pessoal, tirem minhas questions, please:

  Preciso mover some VMs between data warehouses, para Espaço realocacao, mas o client não possui o Storage VMotion. Then devo mover na mao mesmo:

  1. Desligar o servidor
  2. Remover o servidor inventario
  3. Mover a pasta server between os data warehouses (explore data store / move directory)
  4. Readicionar o servidor ao inventario
  5. Ligar o servidor

  É ISSO, certo?

  Estava pensando numa coisa, mas não sei is da certo e be e certo fazer.

  SE EU mudasse an ambiente licença para LICENÇA (FREE) AVALIAÇÃO, dai todos os recursos ficariam habilitados, como e por padrão na versão Avaliação. The EU Dai usaria o Storage VMotion e depois colocaria a licença of volta.

  
  Acham as daria certo?

  Abraço,

  
  Sena.

  Atanagoras Sena says:

  Pessoal, tirem minhas questions, please:

  Preciso mover some VMs between data warehouses, para Espaço realocacao, mas o client não possui o Storage VMotion. Then devo mover na mao mesmo:

  1. Desligar o servidor
  2. Remover o servidor inventario
  3. Mover a pasta server between os data warehouses (explore data store / move directory)
  4. Readicionar o servidor ao inventario
  5. Ligar o servidor

  É ISSO, certo?

  Perfeito. Isso AI.

  Estava pensando numa coisa, mas não sei is da certo e be e certo fazer.

  SE EU mudasse an ambiente licença para LICENÇA (FREE) AVALIAÇÃO, dai todos os recursos ficariam habilitados, como e por padrão na versão Avaliação. The EU Dai usaria o Storage VMotion e depois colocaria a licença of volta.

  Acham as daria certo?

  Daria, very e "ilegal" você fazer isso SIM. MAS funcionaria na boa too.

  ABCs

  Don't atribuir os pontos não

• 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.

• Is it possible to migrate ESXi host between data centers, if so please provide a brief not

  Hi friends,

  1. is it possible to migrate ESXi host between data centers, if so please provide a brief walking distance.

  2 can we perform vMotion and Storage vMotion while ESXi is turned on.

  3. is it possible to extend the VMDK disk while it integrates snapshots in it.

  Best regards,

  Sirot Vijay

  Yes the vmotion and svmotion works but one by one.

  1 - vmotion is posssible to power on State, but you can't svmotion the vm simultaneously. The storage will remain same

  2 svmotion is also possible to power on the State, but you cannot vmotion virtual machine simultaneously. the host will remain the same.

  3 vmotion and svmotion is possible together when the vm is off power. the host and storage can be changed simultaneously on this State.

• Cold using vMotion migration between data warehouses

  To perform a migration cold between 2 not the source ESX servers and the host ESX destination need to see two data stores?

  I have a host ESX 3.5 with 1 data store called data01 and a host ESXi 5.0 with a data store called data02. Using vCenter to manage the two ESX host - what I want to turn off a virtual running on the 3.5 host computer and perform a migration cold, including a data store move to 5.0 host.

  
  Can this be achieved?

  I am unable to storage area presented to the ESX host 3.5 to the host of 5.0 and also unable to storage 5.0 to 3.5 host.

  The OP is talking about a cold migration.  In the scenario described, it doesn't have to be a shared storage.  As long as the migration cold remains in the same instance of vCenter, there should be no problem.

• Storage vmotion, between data warehouses when the block size is different

  Hi all

  I would like to know, is it possible to do a vmotion of storage between two data warehouses, when they have different block sizes. The case is as a former vmfs data store 3 which has been upgraded direct to vmfs5 there, but since it has been updated it maintains its own block size. While the newly created vmfs datastore 5 a block size of 1 MB.

  Thus, storage Vmotion will work in this case? It will fail OR will be with degraded performance?

  Finally, storage vmotion is possible even if you do not have a cluster DRS for storage?

  Thank you

  Yes you can!

  Check some info on the effects of block size: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/02/18/blocksize-impact/

• Move VM between data warehouses

  What is the fastest way to move a virtual machine between two warehouses of data on the same host ESXi?

  I Don t use vCenter. The disks are thick lazy available at zero and about 400 GB in size.

  Follow these steps:

  • power off the virtual machine (do not suspend)
  • delete the virtual machine of the inventory
  • Open the data store with the virtual machine file
  • in the left pane, select the root folder and in the right pane, select the folder of the virtual machine
  • then either click on the "Move" icon or right click on the folder and select "move to".
  • Once moved, open the browser to store data to the new data store
  • Right-click right the VM .vmx file and choose "add to the inventory.

  André

• Get-hard drives - storage drives data store migrate between data warehouses

  Hi all

  
  

  Our current storage configuration with specially designed split-role of the bases of data storages (OS, LOG SQL, SQL DATA, APP, Exchange roles, etc.)  I do a storage store on my VMware Infrastructure and hoped to target only the disks of virtual machines that are on any data store and migrate them to another.  Rather new to PowerCli if you're wondering why the bellows of the command does not work and the reports that the file is locked.
  

  
  

  Get-hard drive - data store 'Datastore01 ' | Moving-hard drive - data store Datastore02

  If the machine virtual itself is made aware of the command?  Would I have to enumarte the virtual machines on the first data store and then target discs that everyone has and redirect it to the hard disk Move command?

  Thanks in advance

  Yes, you are banging in the sequence of commands trying to move a file on the data store without referencing the virtual machine. According to the State of the virtual machine (lit or not) of different things happen

  • VM power off - the disc is moved and the virtual machine is broken (the vmx file will always point to the original location for the HD that is no longer there)
  • Virtual MACHINE power - the disk is locked, so it cannot be moved (the error you have seen)

  Another thing to keep in mind is that the configuration of the VM is also on a data store, so if you want to move the entire virtual machine you can just move the hard drives

  If all the virtual machines on a data store have all their HDs on this data store then you can do something like

  Get - VM - data store 'Datastore01 ' | Move-VM - data store "Datastore02".

  To access the VM configuration, but also his records. If you have virtual machines where the disks into a single virtual machine, then you will have a little more work to do to sort the records that must be moved

  Get - VM - data store 'Datastore01 ' | Get-hard drive | Where-Object {$_.} FileName.Contains ("[Datastore01]")} | Moving-hard drive - data store "Datastore02".

  This is all virtual machines with a component (hard drive or configuration) on Datastore1, and then for each VM is all hard disks that are on Datastore01 and the Datastore02

• Migration of VMs between Clusters

  I'm building a new cluster (esxi 4.1) and want to redesign my network configuration. Current cluster has 1 dvSwitch with 4 natachasery on each host. All the ports are on this 1 dvSwitch. My new cluster has 10 natachasery and I wanted to install 1 - dvS with 2 natachasery for management/vmotion; 1 - dvS with 4 natachasery for VM VLAN; 1 - dvS with 2 natachasery for the feet and the last 2 natachasery for future use.

  My problem is that if I set up my network the way I want on the new cluster how can I go on VMs migration to him without a break in service? Cannot vmotion between dvSwitches.

  You may only create an ESXi host for the purpose of migration. Add the new host at the same time the existing vDS and the new vDS.

  Migrate virtual machines on the host of the migration and then reallocate the VM Networking NIC for the new vDS. Then migrate comments to the new cluster host configured with your end-state configuration. You will have a very short disconnection time when you change the port used by the virtual machine, but as long as it is on the same subnet, it shouldn't be a problem.

  Kind regards

  Paul

• Moving propelled out of virtual machines between data warehouses

  I need to create a script to move a list of virtual machines in the current in another data store.

  The script must move the first VM, wait for the operation to complete, and then move the second and so on.

  Y at - it no samples can I start from?

  Concerning

  Marius

  You can check VMRelocatedEvent with Get-ViEvent.

  Something like that

  $targetVM = "MyVM.

  $finished = $false

  {while(!$finished)}

  If ((Get-Date) Get-VIEvent-Start. AddMinutes(-15) - MaxSamples ([int]: MaxValue) |

  where {$_-is [VMware.Vim.VmRelocatedEvent] - and $_.} {Vm.Name - eq $targetVM)}

  $finished = $true

  }

  else {}

  Sleep 30

  }

  }

• Copy VM between data warehouses

  OLA pessoal,

  Estou com uma doubt, uso o ESXi e tenho Doi datastore, o datastore1 e o datastore2, quero copy VM uma as esta no datastore1 para o datastore2, vSphere Client through to EU access a data storage through do browse Datastore, copy one VM e put na outra Datastore a feita will be copied by rede or localmente no servidor?

  Are any outra option better?

  Obrigado

  Caro,

  com o vSphere Client aberto, vc clica no host (e nao na vm), the summary em I think you mostra os/place, clica com o direito button e escolhe browse, nao sei to vai haver possibility of copy of UM disco para o outro, mas talvez você win download host esxi para o seu pc todo o conteudo da VM , or principalmente o virtual disco... depois envia esse disco para o host very destino o outro storare voce quer..., recria a VM very usa o virtual disk that vc enviou...

  Olha uma vez EU ultimativa um software da by transfer uma VM of UM ESXi host vmware para outro no ESXi host, very nao single o nome agora, precisa dar uma procurada no google...

  Abraço

• Extremely high latency during the migration of the local data store to data store shared.

  Hi guys I hope you help me. Sorry for my English btw, I'm not native.

  Let's start!

  I have:

  1 vCenter
  1 host
  1 Distributed Switch (with a pg for managing network/IPstorage the esxi)
  1 standard switch (empty)
  1 FreeNAS to provide iSCSI LUNS
  1 Microsoft to provide iSCSI LUNS

  When I try to migrate virtual machines between the warehouses of shared data or data shared at local store, all right. The problem has become when I try to migrate virtual machines from the local to the shared data store. All data stores down (all paths down) and back up and I get this error:

  "Error caused by the /vmfs/volumes/volumenID/VMDirectory/Disk.vmdk file.

  
  When I try to migrate virtual machines from the local to the FreeNAS iSCSI data store it fails immediately.
  When I do the same local Microsoft iSCSI datastore that it takes a time loooooong to migrate the virtual computer, give it to me even all the paths downwards and uplinks down error but not lacking in migration.

  I'll give you some screenshots to see the errors.

  Thank you very much!

  EDIT: I have extremely high latency notice when I try to migrate from the premises of warehouses of shared data. average 2000ms with peaks of 50,000 (see my response below for more information)

  Finally, I found the solution! The problem is that I have been using E1000E vmnic instead of vmxnet3. I have configured an adapter vmxnet3 and boom! 20 ms in all migration!

  Thank you to all for help, especially Nick_Andreev !

• Move VM between data on the same vCenter centers

  Hey all the...

  With a virtual machine off, I'm migrating a VM between data centers in the same vCenter. There is no shared storage, different networks to the destination host. The user interface works (caveat about the missing shows destination network), yet move-vm does not work between data centers.

  By train: move-vm - vm test-20150309 - destination esx1 datastore - datastore1, I get the error:

  Move-vm: 09/03/2015-14:48:20 Move - VM Destination container must be in the same data center.
  On line: 1 char: 1
  + move-vm - vm test-20150309 - destination esx1. ...
  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  + CategoryInfo: InvalidArgument: (esx1:VMHostImpl) [Move-VM], VimException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Client20_VmHostServiceImpl_CheckMoveVmParameters_InvalidDatacenter, VMware.VimAutomation.
  ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.MoveVM

  The manual States -Destination can be file, host, cluster etc... As the hosts AND records are bound by data centers, I guess it must know the new host & the new folder. I tried to use - destination twice, and I've tried - destination host, folder.

  Move-VM: cannot bind parameter because the 'Destination' is specified more than once. To provide several parameter values that can accept multiple values, use the table syntax. For example, '-parameter value1, value2, value3 ".

  Move-VM: missing an argument for the parameter "Destination." Specify a parameter of type 'VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.Inventory.VIContainer' and try again.

  I used PowerCLI 5.8 and tried on 5.0 and 4.0 vCenter.

  Move-vm: 09/03/2015-14:48:20 Move - VM Destination container must be in the same data center.
  On line: 1 char: 1
  + move-vm - vm test-20150309 - destination esx1. ...
  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  + CategoryInfo: InvalidArgument: (esx1:VMHostImpl) [Move-VM], VimException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Client20_VmHostServiceImpl_CheckMoveVmParameters_InvalidDatacenter, VMware.VimAutomation.
  ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.MoveVM

  The SDK method works?

  See 3. Re: to a different vm datacenter 

• Migration of VMS with Snapshots

  I'm at the stage of planning an ESX 3.5/VC 2.5 upgrade to vSphere.  This will be a 'rotating' upgrade, so many migrations VM will take place.  We are all local storage, so the migration will be in data warehouses.

  Unfortunately my shop uses snapshots very strongly.  I am aware of the problems created when popular VM migration with snapshots in data warehouses.  My question is, using VMware Converter makes this possible?  If I can avoid having to delete all snapshots, it would be a huge bonus.  I can't seem to find a definitive answer on whether or not, the converter can handle this.

  Thank you.

  Hi chester78,

  You are right, you cannot migrate a virtual machine without deleting the existing snapshots.

  The alternative you are thinking to use vCenter Converter to migrate virtual machines, it is a good choice to avoid deleting snapshots and all the time this action takes.  VCenter Converter will migrate virtual machines in the current state.

  In the shots, I recommend you read this VMware KB on best practices for snapshots of virtual machines:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1025279

  Best wishes / Saludos

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