Storage Vmotion - 1 of 2 data warehouses

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• Storage Vmotion several stores of data to CSV

  I have 6 virtual machines with 13 discs each on 72 different data stores (limit of 2 TB was really limited).  Extensions led to terrible performance, then the best course of action was to individual records on individual data warehouses (1 1 ratio of the data store vmdk).  We are now migrate all these 72 vmdk of 72 new data on the new storage warehouses.  In the past, we did these VMotions of storage via PowerCli data store or virtual machine for a store of data specified in a comma-delimited file.

  I was trying to understand what would be the command line that I could insert the drives and appropriate in the command data warehouses "for each.  The command set-hard drive wasn't working.  You see where I was wrong?

  [vSphere PowerCLI] C:\powershell > get-datastore HO-CX3-CF-Phopdnode03 - 1 m | Get-hard drive | % {Set-hard drive - HDD $_ - data store "ho_na3_phopdnode03_12"}
  Confirm
  Are you sure you want to perform this action?
  Operation "store parameter data: ho_na3_phopdnode03_12."the Target "phopdnode03.vmdk".»
  [Y] yes [A] Yes to all [N] no [L] no to all [S] Suspend [?] Help
  (default is "Y"):
  Together-hard drive: 2011-08-09 15:17:13 the value-hard drive error caused by file
  /vmfs/volumes/4e4178ca-0c93f7f8-7141-002655503f5d/phopdnode03/phopdnode03.VMDK
  At line: 1 char: 72
  + get-datastore HO-CX3-CF-Phopdnode03 - 1 m | Get-hard drive | % {Hard disk set < < < <}
  {- Hard drive $_ - data store "ho_na3_phopdnode03_12"}
  + CategoryInfo: NotSpecified: (:)) [game-hard drive], FileFault)
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Client20_VirtualDeviceServiceImpl_MoveVirtualHar
  dDiskFile_ViError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.VirtualDevi
  it. SetHardDisk

  The cmdlet Get-hard drive with the parameter data store also returns the hard files that are not connected to a virtual computer.

  A svMotion has update .vmx file the VM as well.

  Maybe try it like that

  Get - VM - Datastore ' HO-CX3-CF-Phopdnode03 - 1 m | Get-hard drive | `

  where {$_.} Filename-match "HO-CX3-CF-Phopdnode03 - 1 m"} | `

  Together-hard drive - data store "ho_na3_phopdnode03_12".

• Storage Vmotion to a new data store get UUID and MAC change to hot after reboot

  Hello

  I have a strange thing that happened on my vcenter.

  Just do a vmotion hot storage between two data store.

  I reboot the virtual machine and received no message to validate if I moved or copied.

  When the virtual machine is restarted, I see that changing the UUID and MAC address.
  Make me an error with an application running on it.

  Did anyone see that already?

  We do some testing and solution for this problem is to download the VM's vmx file on the local system and apply these settings:

  If you want to change the setting always or always create , power off the virtual machine and change its configuration (.vmx) file. Remove the line containing uuid.action = "crΘer" or uuid.action = 'keep'.

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• HP DL380 G6 ESXi 5.5 capable of detecting devices of storage but unable to create data warehouses

  I will say upfront I am newbie and in need of assistance.

  I have a HP DL380 G6 for which I installed iso customized for ESXi with the help of a CD-Rom, installed everything great, no errors, health status shows all green.

  I have 3 hard drives in bays, 500GB, 500GB and 1 TB.

  Sensors see the three connected but in ESXi under storage I cannot see one, could not create a data store.

  My goal is to have a hard disk for each operating system that you are separate, I don't really care about RAID that I think that maybe part of the problem.

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  Hello

  first of all, I would like to check if the latest Proliant SPP (service pack) is installed, or at less the systems BIOS, firmware for the P410i, network cards and the HP ILO (if you have a) is up-to-date. Latest version of the firmware of the P410i is 3.30 (B) insofar as I see, you have 3.00.

  Then go into the P410i RAID configuration and check if everything is configured correctly, it. It looks like at least the 1 TB drive and probably one of the 500 GB drives are not configured in the settings of the controller. This is why there is no volume showing in VMWare.

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• Spend RDM to VMFS using Storage vMotion

  I have a server that is running Windows server 2003 SP2 Enterprise edition.

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  I tried to use storage vmotion to migrate the storage of a new vmfs datastore, hoping it would pass all the data from the mapping of raw device to a new VMFS datastore.

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  You can turn off the virtual machine, remove the diskette RDM and readd in virtual mode.

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• 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?

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• Storage vMotion expired, now VM is on 2 data warehouses and an orphan VM

  I was trying last night to storage vmotion, my Exchange 2007 to a new data store on a different San, and it exceeded 6% of the way.  Now it's show as being on two data stores.  There is also a virtual machine with the same name appearing as "orphans".  I looked around, but saw no conclusive answers.  On the new network SAN is a .vmx file and .vswp and some newspapers and other things. On the SAN original is also the .vmx file, of the regular vmdk, newspapers and 3 hard is named dmotion - scsi0:00, dmotion - Scsi0:01 and DmotionScsi0:02.

  I'm afraid that my exchange server is now in limbo.  No idea what I need to do?

  Thank you

  When I got SVMotion failures in the past, I had to power off of the prompt and choose full Migration from the menu of the virtual machine.

  It was the same for plug-in and RCLI-based failures.

  Jase McCarty

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• storage vmotion 4 1 TB vmdk to a new data store 4TB on 5.5

  All,

  Benefit in performance if the 4 storage vmotion VMDK located on 4 separate data warehouses in a newly created 4TB data store. with 5.5 capacity 62, I was hoping that someone could tell me.

  I appreciate it

  Well well, the response - as before - is "it depends...". ».

  If you want to use a large drive or multiple small disks depends on the structure of data. If you can not divide the data into departments for example, projects, home/profile,... you can be better with a single large disk. Don't forget to use a GPT partition table, and you need to check if for example your backup software can handle that. Some image/VM based backup applications can backup and restore virtual drives very well, but do not have the ability to file level restore! Also don't forget that - disaster - restoration such a large virtual disk will take a significant amount of time during which data is not available for users. If the data structure allows to distribute to several virtual disks (you can always use DFS to present the data through a single share), I prefer this over the large virtual disk. With the smallest disks virtual, you will certainly have to watch each of them for free disk space, but you can increase the size of disk individually and restoration of a single virtual disk can be done much more quickly (with other discs still online / available to users).

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• 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/

• Data store inventory and storage VMotion

  Hello

  We have a host of ESXi 4.0 U1 with vCenter 4.0 U1 environment 5.

  Having acquired a whole new NetApp FC SAN FAS2040, we are trying to gradually Storage VMotion all VMs in front of our old EMC SAN.

  However, after VM have been VMotioned of storage, they always appear in the inventory of the store of data EMC (as contained in the NetApp data store!).

  If we edit the VM, the spectacle of .vmdks as being located on the NetApp.

  Will be the client update its inventory at any time data store?  We tried the view refreshed, restart the client, vCenter services restart, restart the server vCenter - all to nothing does not.

  Thank you very much

  IR88

  PS - When you browse NetApp data warehouses, it seems to take a long v. for folders / files to appear! (get "Searching datastore... ("for a while)

  Is there anything that is attached to the virtual machines (CDROM/ISO file,...) which is still on the EMC storage?

  André

• Storage vMotion a VM except disk that is in another data store

  Hello

  I'm looking to convert a large number of virtual machines clones related to thick.  I decided the best way to do this is probably a simple a storage vMotion, but all the virtual machines have a secondary drive that is in another data store.  I have to make sure that disk #2 stays at its current location, while the machine virtual (Config and disk #1 files) are transferred to a new data store data store.

  I figured out how to move a virtual machine complete or a single disc but not a virtual machine under a disc.  I am able to make it through the advanced options of puissancela vSphere client so I guess it is techinically possible.

  Pointers or other ideas would be greatly appreciated.

  Kind regards

  Ty-

  You will need to use the API method, see for example Re: using several data stores, cannot migrate the vmx file in a data store

• VM have been storage vMotioned to another data store, and now I have 3 VM with white "!" inside a red square and I want to understand the cause of this.

  VM have been storage vMotioned to another data store, and now I have 3 VM with white "!" inside a red square and I want to understand the cause of this.

  Can you try to make a vmotion host and see if it gets resolved? If not, can you close the virtual machine and start again? I have seen this problem before and a stop and start resolved.

• data store full, okay do storage vmotion?

  I have a virtual machine with a data disc on a complete data store (approximately 180 MB free). I thought I was doing a hot storage vmotion in another data store. Assming target data store has enough room, it will work?

  I check the process of storage vmotion does use all the disk space on the source (I think the process consider the block on the source changes). It comes to ESXi 4.1

  Hello

  If you have virtual machines running on the data store you can stop them (snack if it's possible) which will give you more space on the data store that it will remove the swap for the virtual machine files.

  Also if possible please get a number of additional logical unit presented and extend the data store.

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• Storage VMotion for several data stores

  I'm looking for some advice and assistance with the help of the vSphere PowerCLI to SVMotions.

  I found that I can use virtual vmname Get-machine | Move-VM - datastore (Get-Datastore datastorename) that has worked very well and I was ready to roll. However, it occurred to me that I can only refer to a data store in the cmdlet and some of our virtual machines have their drives located on different data warehouses.

  So I set up a test VM with two disks of different data warehouses and began a SVMotion. The result was that it has migrated all disks in their separate data warehouses in a single folder on the target.

  What I need to be able to do is to migrate a disk and leave the other in its original location, or migrate two disks of different locations in two different places again. As you can do if you switch the machine virtual and migrate through the graphical interface, moving storage with advanced options (and probably what you can do via the graphical interface with the virtual machine in vSphere).

  I've got ESX 3.5 Update 5 with vCenter 2.5 update 6 If no GUI in VirtualCenter and the free snap option not taken in charge is not an option.

  Is there a way to do it with the PowerCLI or am I limited to migration the data store's unique virtual machine?

  Thank you very much.

  This can be achieved using the. RelocateVM_Task() method of the VirtualMachine SDK object

  See the code below:

  $configDatastoreName = "DataStore_01"
  $HardDisk1DatastoreName = "DataStore_02"
  $HardDisk2DatastoreName = "Datastore_03"
  
  $vm = Get-VM VM001
  
  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
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  $spec.Datastore = (Get-Datastore $configDatastoreName | Get-View).MoRef
  
  #for each disk specify where the vmdk files should be placed.
  #If a vmdk should NOT be moved, enter its CURRENT datastore
  #If you forget to specify a disks location, it will be moved to the datastore
  #specified in $spec.Datastore
  
  #HardDisk 1
  $objDisk = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator
  $objDisk.DiskID = $vm.HardDisks[0].Id.Split('/')[1]
  $objDisk.DataStore = (Get-Datastore $HardDisk1DatastoreName | Get-View).MoRef
  $spec.Disk += $objDisk
  
  #HardDisk 2
  $objDisk = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator
  $objDisk.DiskID = $vm.HardDisks[1].Id.Split('/')[1]
  $objDisk.DataStore = (Get-Datastore $HardDisk2DatastoreName | Get-View).MoRef
  $spec.Disk += $objDisk
  
  #When all harddisks are specified call the RelocateVM_task()
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• unmonitor storage of specific data warehouses connectivirty

  Hello

  We conduct the following isue: we do backpups Exchange using SnapManager for Exchange NetApp. Once the task of backup, the backup is verified by the mounting of a LUN on the server. The problem with this is that, after the audit, the LUN is disconnected and that the alarm is set on the vCenter that a data store has lost connectivity.

  What we would like is to avoid alerts on this specific LUN (it is always LUN0) used only to verify the backup.

  We have tried to set an alarm (storage connectivity), but it also detects this logic unit number that we do not want to detect.

  Thank you in advanced for your comments.

  Best regards

  Miguel

  I see.  In this case, I believe you can use the new functionality of object datastore in vSphere.  You can change where you place your alarm data store.  In other words, go to your view of data stores, create a folder, call followed computer data warehouses and add your alarm data store it.  Next, move all data storage you want to look in this folder.  All new data store that is created will be outside of this folder and will not be subject to this alarm.

  -KjB