Replacement of a data store - migration of virtual machines
We have a VMware ESXi 4.0 installed on a SD card and our data store is on a dedicated internal RAID array. Our data store is running out of space... what we would do is remove the old hard drives and add new - therefore, delete and re-create the matrix RAID and the data store.
What is the best way to migrate our existing data store / VMs from the old array to a new one using vSphere or vSphere CLI? How we then re - associate VMs on the SD card with the new data store? Advice would be appreciated. Thank you very much.
Hello
Looks like it's a single ESXi host.
You will need to copy/save all the contents of the data store existing to another location (external HARD drive) while all virtual machines are closed.
Once it's done and you are sure that the copied data are intact, you can:
-remove all virtual machines of the inventory
-remove the data store
-Stop the host
-replace the HARD drive with the new
-Launch the host and to reconfigure the new raid
-Create the new data store in ESXi
Copy/restore all data to the new data store
-Browse the data store and add all the virtual machines to the inventory (create a list to make sure you get all the)
-Start the virtual machines
May be a good time to do an upgrade of ESXi5 as well
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I need your help.
Thanks in advance!With regard to the notes of the VM, the following code (see enclosed package) can do this:
var oldNotes = vm.summary.config.annotation;
If (oldNotes == null) {oldNotes = ' ' ;}}
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Now put the new notes:
Start by creating a context
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Update the annotation with the new value property
configSpec.annotation = notes;
launch the task to reconfigure the virtual machine with the new context
NOTE: This is sure to apply with a virtual machine under tension
var task = vm.reconfigVM_Task (configSpec);And, in what concerns the VM information, take a look at the workflow of the library: \Library\vCenter\Virtual Machine management\Others\Extract virtual machine information
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Hello
How to list the files of data store for the virtual machine? I can't find reference to the command.
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If you have installed vCLI and vSphere SDK for Perl, you have extra utilities on top of what is there with the vCLI, take a look at this list: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit/viperl40/doc/vsperl_util_index.html
A script that can help with the list of files to store data for a given virtual machine is dsbrowse.pl
Here is an example:
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So, I found an online script that migrates your inventory during one vCenter to another. I broke the script into two pieces that export (path of the folder path of the VM folder, permissions of folder and notes and custom attributes) and the other to import (create folders, move the virtual machines in the original folder, reset the permissions and set notes and custom attributes).
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Because the forum software has problem with hooks and contains the script, I have attached the vCenter_migration_import.ps1 script has changed.
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Can I download can imagine them in the data store when the Virtual Machine is running
or do I have to stop the Virtual Machine first and then download?
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Chris
If you want to have a consistent state, Yes.
If you just need a consistent state to the accident, you can create a snapshot, download the base vmdk files and then validate once again the snapshot operation.
You cannot download files in use (except the read-only).
André
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Hello
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Hello
I'm here today to ask for your help please.
In our Organization, we have 1 large VM
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Because we could all think in the same data store due to the limitation of 2Tera by a data store
Thanks for your help
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@LucD - hi.
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See the script after skeleton, he probably needs some adjustments to fit your environment and requirements
$dsName = "xyz".
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Remove-VM - $vm VM - confirm: $false
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# 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}}
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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
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vcenter2
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Is it possible to migrate vms between vcenter2 and vcenter1 programmatically? (or vice versa)?
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Luis
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