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

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• Storage Vmotion failed now VM in limbo

  I was migrating a virtual computer by using the plugin SVmotion who got 90% then failed, and now I can not restart. I have the two stil of vmdk files in their original location, but also two dmotion * vmdk files. Nondurable urgent to return this virtual machine running would be highly appreciated.

  Hello, check these two articles, those who should be able to help solve the problem:

  http://www.van-Lieshout.com/2009/03/how-to-recover-from-failed-SVMotion/

  http://blog.core-it.com.au/?p=441

  If this post was useful/solved your problem, please mark the points of wire and price as seem you. Thank you!

• Storage vMotion of 4.1 to 5.5?

  I am in the process of upgrading our environment vSphere. I need critical servers vmotion ESX 4.1 at the glomerulus ESXi 5.5 cluster. The two groups are now managed by a 5.5 vcenter server.

  See attachment. The PROD4 cluster hosts are all ESX 4.1 and the Production cluster hosts are the ESXi 5.5

  Can I install 5.5 on another host and add it to the cluster PROD4 so that I can vmotion VMs critical for her, then vmotion them to the 5.5 cluster?

  Bottom line, it is how to make virtual machines on hosts 4.1 5.5 guests without interruption?

  I can think in this case is to add one of the hosts of the old cluster/storage, vMotion the VMs on that host, ESXi 5.5 and then use the Web Client vSphere to migrate hosts and data store to the new cluster. With vSphere 5.5 and the Web Client, you can do this even without shared storage.

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• Storage vmotion RDM

  I tried to storage servers vmotioned 3 which contained a RDM. The RDM were in virtual compatibility mode. I've migrated 2 servers that have been turned off and all was fine until I tried the 3rd server which was powered and it reported an error saying that the block size was too small for the size of the disk.

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  Dr

  When you storage vmotion RDM it converts it to a virtual drive and when he tries the vmfs block size is smaller that the actual ROW (must be more than 256 GB) then you get this error. the data contained in the ROW will be always available. Why not start it because it won't hurt

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

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• Storage vmotion without vCenter

  Friends,

  I know that we cannot make a svMotion if we do not have a vCenter server.

  What are the other ways to go about this. I found a blog in it?

  http://www.virtualizetips.com/2010/04/15/how-to-move-a-VM-without-vCenter-or-storage-VMotion/

  Is this a way full proof?

  Rahul-

  Hello

  Yes, it will work fine, if all the virtual machine files are in this folder.

  If you have multiple VMDK, on different data warehouses and want to move all, it will get a bit more complicated.

  Tim

• 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 the VMS residing on a store of data to another data store

  I need Storage vmotion all virtual machines residing on a data store to another store of data within the same cluster. All virtual computers have a vmdk... someone has a script or something similar...

  Also, you should be able to:

  Get-Datastore "OldDatastore" | Get-VM | Foreach { Move-VM -Datastore (Get-Datastore "NewDatastore") }
  

  If you found this information useful, please consider the allocation of points for correct or helpful.

  Alan Renouf

  http://Virtu-al.NET

• 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 GUI

  Hello

  I heard that there is a GUI available per person interposed for Storage VMotion. Can someone point me in that direction. It is freeware, and above all, is reliable.

  Thank you

  Tim

  http://sourceforge.NET/projects/VIP-SVMotion/

  How to:

  http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/VMware-ESX-articles/VMotion-DRS-high-availability/storage-VMotion-SVMotion-VI-plugin.html

  Works very well and is very reliable.

• 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
  #Get MoRef for Destination datastore for Config files
  $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()
  $vm.ExtensionData.RelocateVM_Task($spec, "defaultPriority")
  

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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

• 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 very slow

  Storage vmotions run very slowly. The virtual machine that has a 60 GB HARD drive. I tried different storage and still the same result. I have even upgraded to a network of 10 GB with the same results. I opened an evidence of support and the engineer told me vmotion will not use the link in full speed but it seems quite slow for the numbers I get. I hope I have provided enough information below for assistance. I hope that it is something I am doing wrong...

  Hosts:

  3 x ESXi host. Two are updated to version 6.0 1 and a version 5.5.

  Dell PowerEdge R610

  Xeon E5540 - 8 x 2.53GHz

  48 GB OF RAM

  10 GB for storage and vmotion traffic

  4 x 1 Gb NIC for vm traffic interconnection

  All storage is on the shared storage. The only local thing is the operating system

  VMware EVC mode for the production of Intel's Nehalem.

  Storage

  Supermicro NAS 2 to 4 x 4 RAID 10 storage pools

  Integrated 10 GB NIC

  QNAP TS - 469U - PR to 4 x 4 RAID 5 NAS

  2 x 1 GB NIC aggregated link

  Network

  All 3 hosts and NAS are connected with a Netgear dedicated 10 GB switch (low-end model).

  Using a standard vswitch

  Problem

  1 ESXi host has a computer virtual stored on storage on NAS Supermicro 1 pool. When a storage vmotion is running on a virtual machine that has a 60 GB VMDK, it takes a long time to complete. He started at 09:36, and is now 61% fine at 10:58.

  2. the network of 10 GB is where the vmotion traffic is allowed.

  3. If I use a link to 10 GB or a 1 GB link, I get the same speed.

  4. I have disabled all VM at a time given for the trial and who has not helped either.

  5. I tried a QNAP so storage vmotion, and I get the same speed.

  I use connection CAT6A cables. I have fine tuned for storage, and it seems to work better now. Seems to be linked to "writing - sync" as ESXi.

• Storage vMotion - Shadow created VM!

  Hello

  I cancelled a task of storage for a virtual machine vMotion and now I have two virtual machines with the same name. I understand Storage vMotion creates a shadow VM as part of the migration.

  The cancellation has not been cleaned so I now a VM THAT under tension and work and a VM turned off with 0MB of data warehouses.

  Is it OK to goahead and remove this 'Shadow' VM?

  I look forward to hear from anyone with help.

  Thank you

  Peter.

  I guess, there is no problem.

  Just remove the inventory and then delete the folder.