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  I have a question on how to move a virtual machine from one ESX 4 host to a host ESXi 5.  These hosts have access to the same shared storage but the ESX 4 host is outside the network and host ESXi 5 is inside the network so vMotion is not an option.  They are in different groups.  I know that there must be an easy way to move this virtual machine, but for the life of me, I can't find it.  I guess I have remove the virtual machine from the external cluster but how to make the virtual machine in the internal cluster?

  Thanks in advance...

  If both host access to the data store even where VM's store, just stop the virtual machine, remove inventory on ESXi 4, go to ESXi 5 vSphere vSphere, browse the data store where the VM is stored, do a right-click on the .vmx file and add to the inventory.

• HA restarts the virtual machine if the storage connectivity is lost? If how is HA needs to be configured?

  We plan to go forward with a single dual-port HBA in each of our ESX servers. My concern is that the HBA becomes a single point of failure. HA supports restarting the virtual machine which lose connectivity to back-end storage. We did some testing and it does not appear that HA does not handle this. Even when 'enable us VM monitoring' the machine virtual do not restart on other ESX servers in the cluster that they hang just basically. I've read a few articles which seem to indicate that it should work, but I'm not able to get there. Any thoughts there?

  HA checks the availability of default ESX host. There is an option to monitor the heartbeats reviews, as well. Maybe this will do, but sometimes a guest still works for awhile even if the disk is lost. And as for a long time VMware tools send heartbeats...

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• There is no reference of the virtual machine to the storage

  I have a virtual machine with a reference to a NFS read only the storage location.  But I can not find source of this reference.  I reviewed the parameters of the virtual machine, and there is no reference that I see.  The vmdk is not reference, nor is the SEO cd player.  To complicate matters, the nfs went offline and is no longer available.   I tried to delete the storage on the host computer in vcenter 5 (device), but could not because of the reference to the virtual machine.

  I connected the host computer in vsphere 5 and virtual machine did not have this reference.  The host had that nfs as a reference of storage, but the virtual machine is not, unlike in vcenter.  So I removed the storage on the host computer.  Back connected to vcenter and the virtual machine always has the reference for storage.

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  Welcome to the community,

  If I understand you correctly, you see the extra storage in addition to the correct storage for your virtual computer! This occurs if you created a snapshot, while the storage has been active for this virtual machine. Once you delete the snapshots storage displayed will be deleted also.

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• Trying to give the virtual machine access to iscsi storage

  I recently added a Netgear ReadyNas Pro Business Edition to my network.  I connected 1 nic it to my ESXi server.  I was able to configure iscsi and get the esxi server to recognize and to create a store of data.

  What I wanted was a way for the virtual machine of people use iscsi for backup storage.  A I created it wrong or what I still have to do something on the virtual machine to get there?

  Thank you

  If you do not want to use iSCSI data warehouses to keep your virtual machines then there is no need to make accessible to the your ESX vmkernel - it would be pointless to add a second NETWORK card if everything is connected to a common switch - but if it's on a different segment, then to your SBS server you would need for virtual NICs each on different segments.

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• Move the virtual machines to new storage device

  I recently added a storage IBM DS3200 SAS device to my VMware ESX 3.5 server.  I am running 6 VMs locally on the server and I would like to move the virtual machines to the new storage device.  I have formatted disks and the ESX Server sees.  What is the best way to move the virtual machines that currently reside locally on the external storage device?

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  I guess you could also try using converter

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  I'm trying to convet system winnt in esx, always fail in the setp2. I tired to convet locally and remotely and get the same error message. Help, please

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  When you run a VM guest in headless mode I can't use vmrun to get IP clients. If I eventually bring to the top/start the merger GUI, the command returns the IP address as planned. It is always reproducible.

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  Hi danandham,

  Welcome in the vmware community. Iyou s really a problem, we try to fix it.

  After a command, you can use as a workaround:

  vmrun t fusion getGuestIPAddress "path/to/MyVMs.vmx" - wait

  See you soon

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• Storage vMotion - impossible to move the virtual machine

  All,

  I have recently upgraded to version 4.1 ESXi 4.1 U3 of VC2.5 ESX 3 vCenter Essentials - I decided to make my new vCenter server a VM - everything went well on the upgrade so I am now looking to do work on my storage system (EMC Celerra). I have virtually no space on my LUN and my CIFS shares are increasingly full also... However I have a file inside the EMC system which is 6 to size which houses a 200 GB LUN - it's the logic unit number that contains my VM vCenter. What I want to do is... move this vCenter VM off this LUN to local storage, reassign 6 TB to the pool file system and extend the 3 TB CIFS file system and then present the rest of the space as LUNS for VMware. My problem is that I'm not licensed for storage vMotion and they only way I can storage vMotion, VM off the coast of this LUN is to stop it and move it but because it's my vCenter Server I can perform this action by the customer.

  I guess I might need to drill holes in the host using putty to move the vmdk file, but I'm looking for any useful measure to enable me to move this virtual machine.

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  How can I (or can I) use Storage vMotion on ESX4.0 U1 to migrate part of a virtual computer to a new data store?  I have a virtual machine with 5 data stores attached and move 1 data warehouses to a LUN of larger size.  What is the best method?

  On the "Select the data store" window, click on the button "Advanced". You can specify the location of each VMDK and configuration files.