Storage vMotion GUI in the roadmap - individual placement of discs?

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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.

• script storage vmotion which move the config files too?

  Hello

  I have a VMWare admin for a long time but I am very new to the PowerCLI and script. I could find, modify and use scripts that do a simple storage vmotion: all disks go to a data store - but also one that can move independently - disk hard drive 1 to the data store X, hard disk 2 to the data store Y. However, I can't figure out how to recover the configuration files as well. I just got the book "VMWare vSphere PowerCLI reference", which confirmed my fears that you can't call these configuration files (and Exchange files, etc.) as a single parameter as you can hard drives. You use the SDK, that I have even fewer know that the CLI of power!

  I keep my BONES (disc 1) files and configuration files in 'BONES' labeled data warehouses, so whenever I move a Hard Disk 1, I want to keep the configuration files, swap files, newspapers etc. with the OS disk file and move them to another "OS" datastore. No matter who else set up like this and already is figuring out how to automate this type of move? I know that I can move the entire VM to a data store, then move the hard drives 2 and above, but it's a waste of time and I have no OS LUN that are too big.

  Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

  Thanks for buying the book, I hope that you may find useful.

  Yes, you are right, there is no single cmdlet that lets you move only the configuration files.

  You can do this with the RelocateVM_Task method in the SDK however.

  Such a script, in its simplest form, will look something like this.

  $vm = Get-VM MyVM
  $configDS =Get-Datastore -Name "MyDS1" $hdDS = Get-Datastore -Name "MyDS2"
  
  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec $spec.Datastore = $configDS.Extensiondata.MoRef
  Get-HardDisk -VM $vm | %{
      $hdSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator    $hdSpec.Datastore = $hdDs.ExtensionData.MoRef
      $hdSpec.diskId = $_.Extensiondata.Key
      $spec.Disk += $hdSpec}
  $vm.ExtensionData.RelocateVM($spec,"defaultPriority")
  

  You specify the destination of the files "config" in the line of $configDS.

  Hard disks will be migrated to the data store that the script gets in $hdDS.

  If you want to only move the configuration files, you specify the same data store to which they are already for hard disks.

  $vm = Get-VM MyVM
  $configDS =Get-Datastore -Name "MyDS3" $hdDS = Get-Datastore -Name "MyDS2"...
  

• 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 causing of the VMs to freeze

  Hello

  I've set up a group of data store (ESXi 5.0 build 474610) with 8 warehouses of data, these data warehouses are supplied thin NetApp LUN most VMs in these clusters are supplied thin too.

  Everytime SDRS migrates virtual machines with disks in this datastore freezes. Everyone knows about this problem? I am suspect that it has something to do with thin disks supplied... but I don't really know.

  I appreciate any help or ideas.

  bruno_,

  We had the same type of questions. It seems to start when we introduce ESXi 5, at the time we were on Ontap 7.3.1 and would have minor problems, NetApp came back saying it's a questions of misalign. We have been aligning VM as well re-architecture of storage in the process that we have upgrade to Data ONTAP 8.0.2 and told to stay away from p4, so we went to p6.  Once updated the problem got worse, when you a svMotion this would all our datastore to seize up.  This has happened for two months. Without the help of VMware and NetApp support, we believe we have found and fix the problem.  Just tested last night and no problem... It is related to VAAI Thin Provisioning block space reclamation (UNMAP) (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007427) the December Patch (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=2007671&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=291448073&stateId=1%200%20291446210) This disables by default now.

• Storage vMotion gui or plugin for vSphere?

  Does anyone know of a compatible plugin vSphere vcenter, or a graphical interface for the svmotion.pl in vSphere CLI?  I have many of my servers have 3 or 4 drive all on separate LUNs, and the syntax of the command prompt to move just 1 vmdk is practically a form of punishment.

  use the Advanced button.  You'll then have choices of which HARD disk to move and place where.

• 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.

  Thank you

  If you are not allowed to Storage vMotion, then you can watch using VMware Converter and do a V2V.  Once the VM vCenter has been "copied" in the new destination LUN, it works, make sure that everything is right, then delete the 'old' vCenter VM disk.

• VSphere Storage VMotion - why I can't select specific .vmdks?

  Back in ESX 3.5, I used the Storage VMotion GUI to easily switch the virtual disks to store data in the data store.   Now that we are using VSphere, of course he has this built-in feature.  But I don't see a way to move from the individual .vmdks of a VM monkey - it only allows me to move ALL of them at once.

  If I have a VM with, say, 5 virtual disks - how can I move one of them to a different data store using the VIC?   I don't see a way with the Migration Wizard.

  Sven

  When you get to where you were in the screenshot 2, you must click on the "[location]" text next to the volume that you want to migrate.  This will display a drop-down list of your data warehouse, allowing that you select a destination for this volume.  You can do this to each vmdk, selecting targets of different data store for each group that you want to move.

  Virtualization of happy!

  JP

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• 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

• Storage vMotion + vmdk files in different folders

  Hello

  Storage vMotion will spend the vmdk files [in 2 different folders on the same data store for the moment] in the same folder while that migrated to the different data store?

  Why the vmdk files are in 2 different folders:

  Windows 2008r2 was misconfigured evil so anything by rebooting, it went to the system recovery. Was not able to recover the system.

  The system was rebuilt, and 2 D: and E: drives were attached ["use an existing virtual disk"] as of the existing vmdk disks to the new virtual machine.

  So drive C: [rebuilt VM] vmdk file is located in files vmdk D: & E new-vm-folder & readers are old-vm-folder.

  So "storage vMotion will pass the vmdk files [in 2 different folders on the same data store for the moment] in the same folder while that migrated to the different data store? I know that storage vMotion and change of name of the files/folders works well.

  If this is not the case, what would be the best practice to get is sorted?

  Thank you very much

  Pawel

  Welcome to the community - Yes it will be. The other option would be to turn off the cold and virtual machine migrate the virtual machine to the correct data store.

• Storage vmotion to much to a vmfs

  Hello

  I have a virtual server with 6 virtual drives in 4 different vmfs.

  and want to migrate all records in 1 vmfs, but what happens to the names of disk if I use storage vmotion?

  At the moment I have 2 EX01_1.vmdk and 4 disknames EX01.vmdk.

  Is storage vmotion ' "smart enough to rename the disks on the fly?

  all disks will be renamed to match the subject name of VirtualCenter.  They will not bear the original name.  When you Storage vMotion, you rename the underlying files to match the name of object of vCenter.

• 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/

• Spend RDM to VMFS using Storage vMotion

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

  This server is using a SAN EVA8000 raw device mappings. We want to get rid of the device mappings gross and use instead a regular VMFS data store.

  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.

  Completion of storage vmotion to the new data store, I still connected to the server raw device mappings.

  It is still possible to migrate data on a raw device mapping to the data without downtime and manual filecopy vmfs store?

  Is it possible to move from physical to virtual mode?

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

  André

• ESX 4.0 Storage vMotion

  I'm looking for a good doc or webenar on storage vMotion

  Storage VMotion is integrated in VSphere if you are using the Evaluation Version or are licensed for use with the version of VSphere that you use.

  To use Storage VMotion, right-click the virtual machine and choose migrate - if you have a license for Storage VMotion, and multiple LUNS which Storage VMotion can use then you should see the choice for host of change, change or change host and storage storage.

  Datto

• Storage VMotion - a general error occurred: could not wait for the data.  Error bad0007.

  People,

  I searched through this forum and have not found an answer that works in many positions out there, I say to myself that I would ask him once again.

  Here's the context:

  We have 12 identical Dell M600 blades in 2 chassis with 16 GB of Ram, 2 x Xeon E5430, they are all connected to an Equallogic PS 5000XV iSCSI SAN on a separate iSCSI (vswitch1) with 2 cards network dedicated network and dedicated switch, console svc iscsi dedicated, dedicated VMkernel port for iscsi access. Net access (vswitch0) contains port groups VM for our various networks and a console port and vmkernel svc for VMotion with 2 separate NETWORK cards as well.

  We are running ESX 3.5 U3 and VCenter 2.5 U3 on Win2k3 R2

  VMotion works between all servers, Storage Vmotion works for most machines, HA works and the value 2 host failurs with no monitoring of vm, DRS is set to manual for now I have a few machines on the local stores that I complete my rebuilt LUN, there is no set of rules for DRS and VMware EVC is enabled for guests of the Intel. However, I'll just describe one machine to do svmotion below.

  Here's the problem:

  I'm trying to Svmotion via svmotion.pl - interactive, a Machine to Windows 2000 with a virtual disk and a virtual RDM. I am aware of the requirements for the RDM and required parameters for svmotion, independent is not selected for the RDM, and I also have svmotioned several machines linux and win2k3 with the same configuration without problem. In the interactive session, I choose to individually place the disks and I chose the virtual disk to only the virtual machine to be moved, essentially, as I saw it move vdisk virtual machine and then copy to the pointer of the RDM.

  The use of the processor in this machine is about 25% average. but I try to run migrations at the time the lowest. and The Host it itself shows only about 5.5 GB of the 16 GB of RAM used. so I think we're good on the RAM. the volume/datastore that I'm migrating from has 485 GB free and the volume/datastore I migration towards a 145 GB free. the VM virtual disk is only about 33 GB.

  I run the script the windows version of the RCLI svmotion. and when to begin the process, I get the following error at around 2 percent of the progress:

  "Since the server has encountered an error: a general error occurred: could not wait for the data."  Error bad0007. Invalid parameter. »

  After searching around, I found the following hotfixes to the U2 release notes

  • Migrate.PageInTimeoutResetOnProgress: Set the value to 1.

  • Migrate.PageInProgress: The value 30, if you get an error even after the setting of the Migrate.PageInTimeoutResetOnProgress variable.

  I've made these changes, and I still get the same error.

  When I dig in the newspaper, I see these entries in the journal of vmkwarning:

  (Feb 24 00:17:32 vmkernel iq-virt-c2-b6: 82:04:13:56.794 cpu4:1394) WARNING: bunch: 1397: migHeap0 already at its maximumSize bunch. Cannot extend.

  (Feb 24 00:17:32 vmkernel iq-virt-c2-b6: 82:04:13:56.794 cpu4:1394) WARNING: bunch: 1522: Heap_Align (migHeap0, 1030120338/1030120338 bytes, 4 align) failed.  calling: 0x988f61

  (Feb 24 00:17:32 vmkernel iq-virt-c2-b6: 82:04:13:56.794 cpu4:1394) WARNING: migrate: 1243: 1235452646235015: failure: out of memory (0xbad0014) @0x98da8b

  (Feb 24 00:17:32 vmkernel iq-virt-c2-b6: 82:04:13:56.794 cpu2:1395) WARNING: MigrateNet: 309: 1235452646235015: 5 - 0xa023818: sent only 4096 bytes of data in message 0: Broken pipe

  (Feb 24 00:17:32 vmkernel iq-virt-c2-b6: 82:04:13:56.794 cpu6:1396) WARNING: migrate: 1243: 1235452646235015: failed: Migration protocol error (0xbad003e) @0x98da8b

  (Feb 24 00:17:32 vmkernel iq-virt-c2-b6: 82:04:13:56.794 cpu2:1395) WARNING: migrate: 6776: 1235452646235015: could not send data for 56486: Broken pipe

  At this point, I'm stuck... What is Windows RCLI? the vcenter Server? or the service console with not enough of RAM? We have already increased all our consoles service 512 MB...

  Any help would be greatly appreciated...

  Thanks in advance.

  Alvin

  The vmkernel on out of memory error, I had that before. And vmware support recommends setting 800M Max service console memory. And I did it and have no problems after that.

  See if that helps the issue.

  Mike