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• Storage vMotion fails with the error below

  I'm trying to run a virtual machine's storage vMotion. It fails with the error below.

  This method is disabled by 'moref = 17705'

  #1 method - manually remove the entry from the VCDB.

  • Stop the Service of VC.
  • Connect to the SQL Instance.
  • Run the SQL for VCDB.
  • Select * from VPX_VM WHERE name LIKE '% VM_Name % '.
  • Note the ID of VM in column 1.
  • Validate the stale entry.

  Select * from VPX_DISABLED_METHODS WHERE ENTITY_MO_ID_VAL = "vm - ID".

  • Remove obsolete entries.

  delete from VPX_DISABLED_METHODS WHERE ENTITY_MO_ID_VAL = "vm - ID"

  • Start the VC service.
  • Try Storage vMotion.

  Method #2-si this does not work, save the *.vmx file once again which will fix the problem.

  Note: To do this, you will be required to server unavailability.

  • Power off the virtual computer.
  • VM unregistered inventory.
  • Navigate to the path of the data store and VMX re-register.
  • Start the virtual computer.
  • Try Storage vMotion.

• Storage test 55 certification vmotion, storage vmotion fails with "Could not lock file" on the virtual machine during storage vmotion

  In my view, that it is a known problem in ESXi 5.5 Update 2 release notes, someone knows a solution yet? This is an excerpt from the release notes:

  • Attempts to perform live storage vMotion of virtual machines with RDM disks can fail
    Storage vMotion of virtual machines with RDM disks can fail and virtual machines can be considered in turned off of the State. Attempts to turn on the virtual machine fails with the following error:
    
    Cannot lock the file
    
    Workaround: No.

  VMware support for the record said that the patch will update 3, it is known as an intermittent problem. Finally, it happened to me on the 9th attempt.

• Storage vMotion possible with ESXi Std Edt or not?

  Hi all

  We have two implementations of VMware with ESXi Standard edition licenses installed on the two site. A site has vCenter Server Foundation edition while the other has vCenter Server Standard Edition.

  The problem is that the site with vCenter Std and vSphere 5 Std doenst allow storage vMotion (see image below)

  

  While, on the other hand, site 5 Stnd vSphere with vCenter Foundation allows storage Vmotion (see image below)

  

  How is it so that vSphere Stndard this edtion of different characteristics in different places?

  I had recorded the call and found the solution... VSphere 5.0 and 5.1 gives really different set of features with the same Std license vSphere.   Take a look at the link for options available with vSphere 5.0 and 51 below.

  1 compare vSphere 5.0 editions

  Compare the editions of vSphere VMware for Cloud Computing, server and data center virtualization

  VSphere editions 2 - compare 5.1

  Compare VMware vSphere editions: managed Virtualization & amp; Cloud Computing

  For a test, I used the same Standard edition server with 5.1 key to it has worked well with Storage vMotion Option available :-)

• 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 zero eager thick

  Hello

  In version 5.0, with the GUI, when you want to svmotion a virtual computer, you have three choices for storage: zero lazy thin / thick / thick zero eager.

  We have a lot of virtual machine in lazy mode thin / thick and want to convert it to thick eager without interruption of service.

  In Powershell, smovtion is ' Move-VM cmdlet. It has the possibility of "DatastoreStorageFormat" who don't accept that end/thick for the parameters (from the documentation).

  After a few tries, moving a VM thin with the cmdlet and "thick" in setting create a vmdk in "zero lazy thick."

  Some try with "EagerZeroVirtualDisk_Task" of the API too, but a problem with a lock on the file. It is not really clear in the documentation, but I think that the virtual machine must be poweredoff in order to use this feature.

  Is there a way to powercli to a storage vMotion and (re) create vmdk zeroing eager mode thick?

  Try it like this

  $vm = Get-VM -Name MyVM $destinationds = Get-Datastore -Name MyTargetDS $HardDisks = @(Get-HardDisk -VM $vm)
  
  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec $spec.Datastore = $destinationds.Extensiondata.MoRef
  
  1..$HardDisks.Count | %{
      $newFilename = "[" + $destinationds.Name + "]" + ($HardDisks[$_ -1].Filename.Split(']')[1])
  
      $objBackinginfo = New-Object VMWARE.Vim.VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo    $objBackinginfo.DiskMode = "persistent"    $objBackinginfo.eagerlyScrub = $true    $objBackinginfo.FileName = $newFilename
      $objDisk = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator    $objDisk.DiskID = $HardDisks[$_ - 1].Id.Split('/')[1]
      $objDisk.DataStore = $destinationds.Extensiondata.MoRef    $objDisk.diskBackingInfo = $objBackinginfo
      $spec.Disk += $objDisk
  }
  $vm.ExtensionData.RelocateVM_Task($spec, "defaultPriority")
  

• double control system - storage vmotion with or without storage in common?

  If I have a cluster of existing (vsphere 5.1), where 5 guests are all connected to the FC storage, and then I create a new cluster (managed by the same vcenter) with its own storage space, and leaders of each group DO NOT access other cluster storage:

  I can storage vmotion a computer virtual from one cluster to another?

  Y at - he of the opposition? Takes if press the company or company longer? The servers are in the same cluster, or is simply to be managed by the same sufficient vcenter?

  Hello

  It is possible to check this: VMware vSphere 5.1

• 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.

• Storage vMotion - WITH RDM? - Or will they ignored most of the time?

  Hi all - I have a storage vMotion, 5 hosts in the cluster - five or 6 virtual machines with RDM are pinned to specific hosts for the love of the DRS, but I want to go where the readers of the OS, then to VMDK is one San to another. If the virtual machine has a C:\ drive on the data store, all the other disks on the virtual computer is through physical RDM. ALL I need to move is the c:\(VMDK) in the process of storage vmotion.

  Time without are connected and work today to the ESX host in the cluster, all hosts are sized to see the RDM.

  My question is, when we go to perform the storage vMotion, how to avoid such failure? the RDM are my concern in the past, I think I remember a machine do not migrate when he had attached RDMs.

  any comments or thoughts would be really useful.

  Nick

  You can also move the ROW pointers with the data store 'change' - Assistant. Just be sure to select "same as source" for the format of the target disk. If you choose thick or thin, the RDM will be transformed into a VMDK, but with "same format" simply the ROW pointer is moved to the new data store.

  -Andreas

• Storage vMotion with snapshots

  I'm trying to implement storage vMotion in vSphere and I wanted to try to clarify some of the requirements.  3.5, VMS with snapshots could not be SVM' ed.  This has now changed in 4.1 or anyone know if it will change in the future?  Does anyone found a workaround for this limitation?

  Thank you

  Currently, there is no work around for this.  The only way is to commit snapshots, then svMotion above.  Who knows what will be the next major version to the table well!

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• 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

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• Storage vmotion a VM with so many vmdk and RDM for NFS

  I try a virtual machine that has so much Storage VMotion vmdk and RDM disks to a NFS data store.

  I do NOT need convert the RDM disks just move the pointer with the VMDK file will be converted.

  Is this possible?

  Now if I try this hot svmotion, I get an error on the RDM which set out the following "virtual disk" drive hard 3' is a direct access mapped LUN that is not supported on the data store 'myEMCNFSds'.»»

  If I try this svmotion cold then I get no warning, but it seems that svmotion is trying to convert the RDM NFS drive.

  Is your RDM in physical compatibility mode?   Check out this article KB http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1001856

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• I can storage vMotion two popular VMS with shared disks?

  I have an ESX 3.0.2 Server with local storage and two ESX 3.5 with fiber channel SAN servers. Two VM sharing disks and run it on the computer with only the local storage. Can I use storage vMotion to move these to a 3.5 servers and more at the SAN?

  If not; can I migrate the servers (when closed) to the SAN and 3.5 servers without breaking the links on shared disks?

  If you close the virtual machines and migrate them, you should be able to access the disks - as the sVmotion update pointers in the vmx file.

  If you upsize and lose access to the disk, you will need to do is open the.vmx file for each virtual computer and update the path specified for each disc, not too hard to fix at all. -If you don't like that, you can simply remove and re-add the disc in the VM properties

• Storage vMotion with advanced vsphere license

  I have the vSphere advanced license that doesn't include a Storage vMotion.

  This does mean that I won't be able to do manually storage vmotion with this license, or is what is not included in the new vSphere GUI?

  You will not be able to make Storage VMotion.

  But many people say Storage VMotion, even when cold migration is performed. Thus, you will not be able to move VMS on another store data seamlessly, without power off VM.

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• Storage vmotion with several virtual disks

  I have a couple of virtual machines with virtual disks on them.  I have a need to pass one of the virtual disks in a different lun while leaving others in the current location.  I would like to move this disk without impact on our users, which means that I like to keep the operational machine.  I did several Vmotions storage with great success.  I want to know is if there is a way to use Storage Vmotion and tell him to move only a single virtual disk on a multi VM disk.

  Does anyone know if there is a way to do this?

  Thank you!

  Download and install the RCLI.

  Run the sVMotion intereactive mode.  This will guide you through the process with the ability to move the individual disks.

  command line must start with

  SVMotion - interactive

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