Problem of storage Vmotion, what to check?

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• problem of storage vmotion - requested storage vmotion would change at the same time

  Shalom everyone!

  How are you? hope, do

  I have the following configuration:

  LIC: 1 vCenter Server 4 Standard 2. company vSpehere 4 Plus 1-12 cores per processor * 8CPUs

  ESXi 4; 1 vCenter Server

  When I try to migrate virtual machines to a store of data to another it gives an error. But if I migrate a virtual computer (from storage to another) it looks ok:

  < the requested storage vmotion would simultaneously change storage location of the virtual machine and the host of execution; However, this is not supported on the host Source "production-host1" >

  < the requested storage vmotion would simultaneously change storage location of the virtual machine and the host of execution; However, this is not supported on the host Destonation "production-host2" >

  Thank you very much in tips!

  This image shows the vm on several hosts of source.

  -KjB

• Storage vMotion-Direct between ESXi hosts

  Hi all

  It is my first time on the boards, I hope it's the right way to go on this subject.

  I have problems with Storage vMotion, it's not a set up us would use normally, rather than by necessity with the current scenario.

  We have a desktop which has 2 x 5.1 ESXi hosts. They do not have a budget for SAN with the installation of HBA, and it is only a single requirement. I have to migrate virtual machines from one to the other, but with no external storage. I wait with Storage vMotion directly from a local data store to another.

  I activated the software iSCSI on both ESXi hosts

  Created a vSwitch separated with a VMkernal on two physical hosts

  The two VMkernals are on a separate subnet * 172.16.1 and production vSwitch is 192.168.5. *.

  The NIC allocated for the 172.16.1 network. * is both connected to the same physical switch.

  I ping the VMkernal and the vmkping the VMkernal

  Scan for storage again and nothing shows up.

  I used software iSCSI before, for a long time so I'm probably rusty. Dynamic discovery is normally indicated in the SAN to pick up storage, and finds it just local storage on each host itself.

  In this scenario, I told the IP address of the ESX2 VMkernal on 172.16.1 ESX1. * since I have no external storage. I think it is, I'm wrong, but I don't know what else to do to recover local data warehouses.

  Any ideas to try would be very appreciated.

  Thank you

  Sorted by using 5.1 feature Shared-Nothing vMotion

• Storage vmotion to another data store on a different san

  Hello

  We have a 3.5 ESX cluster running 4 host ESX and Virtual Center. The licensing is ESX Server standard edition. We are migrating to ESXi 4.1 vSphere and a new SAN. One of the issues that we are going through is because we are only in standard edition, we have no storage vmotion to migrate the virtual machines of data stores in the old SAN for data warehouses in the new San. Other than purchasing the add-on storage vmotion, what other options can I. I thought to add a new ESX 3.5 server to the cluster and make storage vmotion from this server while it is running trial license. I would probably need only a few days to storage vmotion on about 45 VMs. Please let me know if one were to do this or any other alternatives available.

  Hello

  There is an unofficial plugin that does not require an authorization.

  More about http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/vmware-esx-and-vsphere-articles/vmotion-drs-high-availability/storage-vmotion-svmotion-vi-plugin.html

  plugin http://sourceforge.net/projects/vip-svmotion/

• Storage VMotion on VMS with snapshots

  Currently intend to move to a new san and have read problems with storage vmotion on VMS with snapshots.  Storage vmotion can be run on the virtual machine with snapshots?

  No.:

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vsp40u1/Admin/c_storage_vmotion_requirements_and_limitations.html

  -MattG

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• What vmnic Storage vMotion use?

  Hello everyone,

  I created my pile and all around nic teaming vmotion fault tolerance and so on... BUT! :

  There are things that I can't understand...

  What vmnic is used for storage vmotion? !

  I explain, when I have a virtual machine to the host and the other, no problem the correct vmnic is used, with nic teaming definition of vmotion.

  BUT, when I migrated a virtual machine from a to another data store every time, but every time vmnic 0 point?

  Any ideas?

  Thanks a lot because I really don't understand why...

  

  vSontae wrote:

  In addition to my question, I would like to say that when I linked the vmkernel on iSCSI port was on the same subnet and the same configuration of network even vlan (no VLAN sort...).

  OK, that explains my question from above, must have been validated as I wrote.

  What you need to do to be able to get through your desired interfaces iSCSI traffic is to have at least the different IP subnets. Different VLAN is also highly recommended, but not technically necessary, however a best practice for several reasons.

  So, basically, set the IP on the SAN iSCSI target some address a different IP subnet, set in place the VMkernel interfaces on the host with IP on the same subnet. Make sure that the Vmkernels is connected to one the VMNIC you want, which is not the same as your network management on VMNIC0.

  Start with that and make sure it works, then you might look at the mulitpathing / iSCSI binding.

• Problema Storage VMotion

  Hola,

  He tenido a problema con el storage vmotion is the virtual machine will ha been parada y sin poder arrancar. Error of El ha sido el siguiente:

  An error general system: Storage VMotion: consolidate online in case of failure: a necessary file was not found. Must manually consolidate the records of the child.

  That means melting manualmente estos discos? Como puedo hacerlo?

  Data store El donde tengo maquina ha been, cada uno los discos, con a fichero delta, como cuando haces UN snapshot. Supongo lo usa durante el proceso del SVMotion y como no ha terminado correctamente to han been alli.

  Someone can help me?

  Buenas Masill

  Svmotion El you crea durante el proceso una 'snapshot especial' in los discos mover HA there're the what ha been enganchada al fallar el proceso, instant estas tienen nomenclatura-dmotion < disco > hard

  If miras el directory of the Máquina deberias ver algo como esto:

  Maquinita - flat hard

  Maquinita.VMDK

  Dmotion - scsi0:00_Maquinita.vmkd

  Dmotion - scsi0:00_Maquinita - delta.vmdk

  Lo primero antes of nada, if you can, haz una copia of you virtual Máquina para as tengas a seguro in case of disaster

  Luego brought melting las snapshots utilizando el comando vmkfstools para building UN fichero con hard snapshot is established of este modo nuevo: vmkfstools-i < del fichero snapshot number > < Nuevo fichero >

  Pejplo: vmkfstools-i dmotion - scsi0:00_Maquinita.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/LUN1/RecuMaquinita/maquinita_disco1.vmdk

  Boring este paso con cada Georgia disco.

  UNA vez are tengas todos los discos consolidados, anadelos has the virtual machine sustituyendo a los 'cascados' e brought the Máquina arrancar.

  Espero you ayude

  Saludes.

• Storage VMotion and what it actually does?

  Hello

  I recently started to use the VM to my new company and I am migrating various VM out of ESX host for them (level 4 of ESX 3.5 Patch) patch.

  Now, I met my first VM installed on a local storage on an ESX host. I understand that I must use Storage VMotion to migrate this and that there is a plug-in that allows you to do so (SVMotion VI-Client Plugin). I also read the prerequisites for Storage VMotion Administrator's guide and I covered.

  However, I do not entirely understand, what this process done. On an online resource that I found it says the following "However, with SVMotion the VM guest stays on the server it resides on but the Ramdisk that VM is what is happening."  Now, if I need to restart this ESX host is that this goes to the impact of this machine virtual comments?

  I do not understand what this distinction between 'Comments' and 'VM virtual disk' would mean in terms of impact on the system for the service providing VMS.

  Notice to lovers?

  Tom

  Storage VMotion allows you to migrate pwered VM transparently to end users. But you can always turn off the virtual machine and migrate to another data store.

  ---

  MCSA, MCTS, VCP, VMware vExpert 2009

  http://blog.vadmin.ru

• flying over the vmdk files after storage vmotion

  People,

  I finished a few vmotions storage and I see that there are some vmdk files left belonging to a virtual machine by flying over in the source data store.

  Storage vmotion however was very good. Time last modified files are several months old.

  If the vmdk files are old players was dismantled some time back?

  There are also a few - zdump.000 left side files in source data warehouses. should you be worried about those?

  Rahul-

  Although I suppose the files are orphans, I always double-check for use before deleting. Virtual disk file (hard) can be changed only in case Active snapshots exist for them. What you can do is run RVTools, to see if these files appear as 'Zombies' and if so, I would say you first create a subdirectory and move the "orphans" files above and - if everything continues to work as expected - delete at a later date. Alternatively you can check the vmware.log of the virtual machine file to see if the files appear here.

  Zdump files are created if something unexpected occurs. However, it is difficult to say what the brought to be created and if they are old and have any problems, you can delete just them.

  André

• Random virtual machines after vMotion and Storage vMotion network loss

  Hi all -

  I have a couple of tickets open with VMware and our supplier of SAN, EqualLogic, on this issue.  Since the configuration of our production and DMZ clusters we noticed that the virtual machines will sometimes drop network connectivity after a successful vMotion and Storage vMotion.  Sometimes, although much less frequently, virtual machines also spontaneously lose network overnight.  What happened only a few times.  The strange thing is that the other guests on the VM host are fine - they lose any network.  Actually, I can do no more than 3 computers virtual host to another, and 2 of 3 can switch correctly, so that we lose the network.  The work around?  Simply 'disconnect' from the virtual NETWORK card 'reconnect' and the virtual machine will start the return packets.  I can also switch the VM troubled return to the host State and it will find the network.  I can it reboot and re - win network.  I can re - install the virtual card completely, and she re - win network.

  VMware has seen a lot of mistakes of SAN in our log files in order to update us our SAN firmware to the latest version.  That seems to have fixed that but we still have the issue.  Here are some of the specifications - all environments are virtually identical except for memory:

  Of PowerEdge R810

  NICs Broadcom 5709

  EqualLogic SAN running 5.0.5 F/W

  We use frames.  ESXi is fully patched.  I haven't seen a boss or not, it is only some guest operating system that loses the network, but we are a Windows environment.

  When a virtual machine loses the network, we can not:

  • Ping to it
    
  • Ping it
    
  • Ping him at the virtual machines on the same host or vSwitch
    
  • Ping outside our network
    
  • resolve DNS, etc..
    

  I followed some KBs VMware without success, including:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1003839
  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & externalId = 1002811 (port security is not enabled)

  -All the VMware tools have been updated to the latest version correct and corresponds to the ESXi host
  -Connected to the service ESXi console, I cannot ping the VM problem by name of host or IP address, but I can ping do not affected by the issue of the OTHER virtual machines.  I can also pings the service console.
  -Connected to the troubled virtual machine itself, I cannot ping other virtual machines, I can't resolve host names, I cannot ping by IP.  The machine virtual CAN ping itself by IP, but not hostname.  I cannot ping other virtual computers on the same virtual switch or network by either IP or host name.  I can't ping the vSwitch network management.
  -All vSwitches are configured in the same way and the same.
  -Notify the switches is set to yes
  -There are a lot of available virtual ports
  -We tried the E1000 and VMXNET virtual cards with no difference.
  -All cards are configured to negotiate, but we tried to force individuals speeds as well as with no difference

  I appreciate your help.  I have problems getting anywhere on this issue with the sellers.

  wkucardinal wrote:

  Still having the issue...

  Sometimes, it might be useful to really check that all uplinks VMNIC for all VLAN does work them. Try this is to create a new portgroup on the vSwitch used by your virtual machines on the host of the first, put a test VM on the portgroup, then go into the NIC teaming policy from the new portgroup and select "Override switch command failover."

  Then down vmnic all except one in unused, then only a single VMNIC is active. Then set the portgroup VLAN to a production of VLAN and try to see if we could ping some expected from the different addresses. If it works, then move VMNIC work until unused and move up to another asset. Try again, and this for all the vmnic. If it works, then you have verified that the configuration of VLANS and other settings are correct on the physical switch in the face of this host ports.

  If several VLANs, repeat the process for all other productions VLAN. Then repeat on the other hosts.

  While that may take some time, occurs if everything is properly configured on the physical switches. When occurs a vMotion virtual machine gets a new "Port code" and is assigned to a new outgoing VMNIC. If there is an error of configuration on one or more physical ports that might seem random, but may still happen on VLAN x on y VMNIC. Given that Port ID policy you use indeed spread randomly VMs on the vmnic these problems may be difficult to diagnose. (Make a disconnection of the VM vNIC gives the virtual machine a new port-ID, which it will move to a new outgoing VMNIC, which might seem to solve the problem.)

• Storage vmotion, leaving something behind

  Hello

  I have a little problem with vsphere storage vmotion.

  I test vsphere storage vmotion, and I discovered that it somehow

  always leave something on the old data store.

  The virtual machine I'm currently move is called "MSCS1" has 1 disk of 10 GB.

  I'm trying to migrate storage of this virtual machine from a data store called ESXDATASTORE1 in another data store called ESXDATASTORE2

  Then the control where the virtual machine files are currently stored nuer the Summary tab,

  She states that this VM is on ESXDATASTORE1.

  I decided to go this virtual machine storage ESXDATASTORE2:

  I choose the option "change datastore.

  I select ESXDATASTORE2 as destination

  In the advanced options I select also datastore ESXDATASTORE2 as the destination for the "configuration file".

  and for "disk 1".

  For the disc format, I select "same as source format".

  When the storage vmotion ends, however,

  I have the following problem:

  In the summary of vm Properties tab.

  When I check on what data store, the virtual machine is rightnow,

  He says that he now has data on two data warehouses:

  ESXDATASTORE1 and ESXDATASTORE2.

  However, when I browse datastore ESXDATASTORE1.

  It seems to be that nothing of VM "MSCS1" there, the 'MSCS1' file is missing.

  When I browse ESXDATASTORE2, all files in VM MSCS1 seem to be there.

  Does anyone have an idea what this virtual machine data are to stay behind on ESXDATASTORE1 and where?

  Why the information in the show of the Summary tab that the data in the MSCS2 VM are now on 2 data warehouses?

  is this a bug?

  If I would delete datastore ESXDATASTORE1 now

  VM MSCS1 should always be working?

  Anyone who encountered this?

  Is this some sort of bug?

  Or I'm just something wrong here?

  Take a look at the parameters of the virtual machine.

  There could be a reference to the former datasore, for example an ISO attachment on the CDROM drive...

  André

• Storage vMotion with Syncrep on Equallogic San

  Hello

  We recently bought 2 San Equallogic (PS6510ES) and turned on synchronous replication between them.

  We use ESXi 5.5 and followed the best practices guide to disable TCP ack and 60 logintimeout value.

  Everything seems to work fine until we tried Storage vMotion/migration and cloning VMS on the San.

  When we did the migration of 2 volumes on the EQL SAN storage (the target volume has active syncrep), the target volume will be out-of-sync and then the storage vMotion will hang sometimes.

  The worst is when such a problem has occurred, all other volumes on the EQL constantly to respond also. All volumes will not respond until we rebooted the corresponding ESXi host (NOTE: simple shut down/power outside the host won't help.) The San EQL will only return to normal after a reboot of the ESXi host).

  If we pause / off the syncrep before Storage vMotion, the problem will not happen.

  Is this normal or not?

  In addition, whenever the problem occurred, the latency of writing the corresponding volume will be dry and we will receive alerts similar to the following:

  connection iSCSI target ' xx.xx.xx.xx:3260, iqn.2001 - 05.com.equallogic:xxxxx - test-volume ' initiator 'xx.xx.xx.xx:xxxxx, eqlinitiatorsyncrep' failed for the following reason:

  Initiator, disconnected from the target when connecting.

  Thanks in advance.

  Hi Joerg,

  What is a #SR? I opened a record of support to 24 June and still waiting for Dell to contact me.

  Ryan

• County of vMotion and Storage vMotion over the last 24 hours

  I am under the below a line to count the number of vMotion and Storage vMotion, which happened in the past 24 hours in the middle and it not give me the required result, but when I combine them in the script that I use to collect additional information, it's just returns 0 (zero) as the County.

  Rely on Storage vMotion and vMotion

  Get-VIEvent - MaxSamples ([int]: MaxValue)-start (Get-Date). AddDays(-1) |

  Where {$_.} GetType(). {Name - eq "TaskEvent" - and $_.Info.DescriptionId - eq "VirtualMachine.relocate" - or $_.Info.DescriptionId - eq "StorageResourceManager.applyRecommendation"} |

  Measure-object | Select-Object - ExpandProperty County

  Get-VIEvent - MaxSamples ([int]: MaxValue)-start (Get-Date). AddDays(-1) |

  Where {$_.} GetType(). {Name - eq "TaskEvent" - and $_.Info.DescriptionId - eq "VirtualMachine.migrate"} |

  Measure-object | Select-Object - ExpandProperty County

  Combined script

  Get-Cluster |

  {ForEach-Object

  $Cluster = $_

  $VMHost = $Cluster | Get-VMHost

  $CpuUsageMhz = $VMHost | Measure-object-property CpuUsageMhz-sum | Select-Object - ExpandProperty sum

  $CpuTotalMhz = $VMHost | Measure-object-property CpuTotalMhz-sum | Select-Object - ExpandProperty sum

  $MemoryUsageGB = $VMHost | Measure-object-property MemoryUsageGB-sum | Select-Object - ExpandProperty sum

  $MemoryTotalGB = $VMHost | Measure-object-property MemoryTotalGB-sum | Select-Object - ExpandProperty sum

  $Cluster | Select-Object - property @{Name = "ClusterName"; Expression = {$_.} Name}},

  @{Name = 'vSphere HA'; Expression = {$_.} HAEnabled}},

  @{Name = 'Analysis HA-Host'; Expression = {$_.} ExtensionData.Configuration.DasConfig.HostMonitoring}},

  @{Name = 'HA-Failover capacity'; Expression = {$_.} ExtensionData.Summary.CurrentFailoverLevel}},

  @{Name = 'HA-Admission Control'; Expression = {$_.} HAAdmissionControlEnabled}},

  @{Name = 'Configuration problem'; Expression = {[string]: join (",", ($_.))} ExtensionData.ConfigIssue | {{(Select-ExpandProperty FullFormattedMessage))}}.

  @{Name = 'vSphere DRS'; Expression = {$_.} DrsEnabled}},

  @{Name = "The DRS automation level"; Expression = {$_.} DrsAutomationLevel}},

  @{Name = "Use of the CPU (Mhz)"; Expression is {$CpuUsageMhz}},

  @{Name = "Cpu (Mhz) Total"; Expression is {$CpuTotalMhz}},

  @{Name = 'Cpu use (%) » ; {Expression = {[Math]: Round(100*$CpuUsageMhz/$CpuTotalMhz)}},

  @{Name = "use (GB) of memory"; Expression is {$MemoryUsageGB}},

  @{Name = "Total (GB) of memory"; Expression is {$MemoryTotalGB}},

  @{Name = 'use of memory (%) » ; {Expression = {[Math]: Round(100*$MemoryUsageGB/$MemoryTotalGB)}},

  @{Name = 'VMS NB'; Expression = {$_ |} Get - VM | Measure-object | {{Select-Object - ExpandProperty County}},

  @{Name = 'Virtual machines without VMXNET3 NB'; Expression = {$_ |} Get - VM | Get-NetworkAdapter | WHERE-object {$_.} Type - not "Vmxnet3"} | Measure-object | {{Select-Object - ExpandProperty County}},

  @{Name = 'VMotions NB'; Expression = {$_ |} Get-VIEvent - MaxSamples ([int]: MaxValue)-start (Get-Date). AddDays(-1) | Where {$_.} GetType(). {Name - eq "TaskEvent" - and $_.Info.DescriptionId - eq "VirtualMachine.migrate"} | Measure-object | {{Select-Object - ExpandProperty County}},

  @{Name = 'SvMotions NB'; Expression = {$_ |} Get-VIEvent - MaxSamples ([int]: MaxValue)-start (Get-Date). AddDays(-1) | Where {$_.} GetType(). {Name - eq "TaskEvent" - and $_.Info.DescriptionId - eq "VirtualMachine.relocate" - or $_.Info.DescriptionId - eq "StorageResourceManager.applyRecommendation"} | Measure-object | {{Select-Object - ExpandProperty County}}

  } |

  Export-Csv "C:\Script\Clusters.csv" - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  Could you please someone check the script above and let me know if there is something wrong

  Thank you!!

  But wait a minute, you mean that the "Num vMotions" and "Num of SvMotions" properties have a value of 0?

  This is normal, since you ask for events for the entity of the group, while you should do it for all the virtual machines in the cluster.

  Try the attached version.

• There is a problem of storage with the data path [path to hard] store

  I have two sites connected by using a VPN connection over a WAN link. In each site, I have an esxi with several VMS host and operation of replication device of vSphere (v 5.1.1.0 Build 1079383) in each site. In each site, these is also a vCenter server with the device of RVS registered and logged with the other site. All the virtual machines are configured to replicate to the other site.

  In my initial configuration of the RV (first install) site remote had 2 vNIC used for the management and I figured it was my problem with replication (see kb2040302). So I have changed since my host configuration from the remote site to have that single vnic management (does not solve the problem). I then registered, removed and reinstalled the VR device without change to the problem.

  What is going on:

  1. I am able to configure replication between sites without a problem.

  2. first replication occurs between sites and reports a success.

  3. the remote VM replication to the main site continue to work properly and all is well for the days and continue to work.

  4. the main site of VM replication to the remote site fails on the second and all attempts to reproduce the error. There is a problem of storage with datastore path '[datastorename] '.

  

  I followed the advice of kb2040302 better as I can. But I must confess that I could use some of the more detailed instructions on how and what site should I check the logs. and how to check my configuration management vnic.

  I'm looking for someone provide additional troubleshooting steps with good detail.

  Thank you

  
  

  Resolution:

  The problem was caused by a security setting on the NFS Server data store. VRA could not delete the (hard).

  Specifically, my problem was with authorizations on the Synology NAS under the application of the "file Station.

• Storage vmotion - Vaii integration?

  I find myself being unclear about what integration VĂII means and how to activate it, and I'm not sure when / if and under what circumstances one table will perform most of the work of a storage vmotion.

  using vshpere 5.1 business + and a new array of netapp - want to migrate data from a former EVA4400 to the new netapp. If we vmotions storage, one or other of the storage devices will do the real work of data movement or guests will have to make it to the top of the layer of software?

  And if the berries will participate (which makes the process faster and less cycles consuming cpu on the host computers) is there anything I need to do, to allow the integration of VĂII on one of these paintings?

  This FAQ will be a good read on VAAI.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1021976

  using vshpere 5.1 business + and a new array of netapp - want to migrate data from a former EVA4400 to the new netapp. If we vmotions storage, one or other of the storage devices will do the real work of data movement or guests will have to make it to the top of the layer of software?

  in this scenario, VAAI cannot do much, since the soruce LUN and target are on different storages. For the improvement of VAAI both source and target storage vmotion LUN must be on the same storage which is compatible VAAI.

  And if the berries will participate (which makes the process faster and less cycles consuming cpu on the host computers) is there anything I need to do, to allow the integration of VĂII on one of these paintings?

  Side table we don't need to do much. Just check with the seller to array storage OS is compatible VAAI and his default license.

  On the side of the host, VAAI is enabled by default.

  To determine if VAAI is enabled by using the vSphere Client.

  1. In the vSphere Client inventory Panel, click on the host.
  2. Click the Configuration tab, and then click Advanced settings under software.
  3. Make sure these options are set to 1 (enabled):

     DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedMove
DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedInit
VMFS3.HardwareAcceleratedLocking

  Consult the above KB to enable VAAI if this is not enabled by chance.