Storage VMotion of Desktop pool (or move to another data store)

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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).

  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.

• Move the location of the VM swap file in another data store

  Hi all

  Was in a task to move the 1000 to the file location of VM swap on another data store which is newly assigned to Exchange us to the existing store database file that will be decommissioned.

  Eager to check if anyone has made movement swap of VM location of the files to a data store to another and that all measures taken to move.

  Require some VM downtime?

  Thanks in advance a ton.

  Yes it is possible without interruption of service to virtual machines.

  1. make sure that your cluster is configured to use swap data store specified by host

  2. take a host in the cluster in maintenance mode, change the location of the VM configuration file to point to the new data store

  3. do this for all hosts in the cluster

  When you vMotion a VM from one host to another the swap file will get moved to the new data store. Later when you take guests to the maintenance and return output mode, vMotion occurs for each computer in the cluster virtual and file is moved.

• Move a virtual machine to another data store

  Hi guys,.

  I have a standard 5 ESX Server with storage.

  I added new readers in server, created a new table and a new data store.

  How can I move the OLD data store virtual machine to the new?

  It's a single ESX host without vCenter.

  Thank you

  Make sure that the virtual machine is powered OFF and removed from inventory and can SSH to the ESXi host and run the below commnd

  MV/vmfs/volumes/datastoreold/servername/vmfs/volumes/datastorenew/ServerName

• Move a virtual machine in another data store

  Hello

  On our ESX 4, we have created pools of resources and multiple data on SAN warehouses.

  To move that a VM resource with Betclic is very easy, but howto move a virtual machine from a to another data store?

  If I understand your question you should migrate your VM to the different data store.

  Right-click on a virtual machine, select migrate..., select Change location of data, select the desired data store, select virtual disk format (end/thick)...

  VCP4 | MCITP | Master ASE | CCNA

• 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

• 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/

• Move virtual machines from a to another data store

  Is there a recommended (or integrated) way to move propelled out of virtual machines from a data store? Or is it a cut simple and working of dough which can be done from any client PC connected to the underlying storage providers?

  If both, store data Source and Destination are connected to the same server vCenter, do Storage vMotion. Make a right-click VM--> migrate--> change of data store and select the Destination data store.

• move virtual machine data store

  Installation program:

  VCenter 4.1

  ESXi 4.1

  How can I move a VM between groups with non-shared data warehouses managed by vcenter even. I can turn off the virtual machine, but storage vmotion will not work as long as data warehouses are not shared between clusters.

  Thank you

  voltage of a virtual computer is not storage vMotion.  If you can take the dowtime, the easisest way.  When the host is turned off, select migrate, you can then ' change time host and the data store.

• Move VM - change data store

  Hello

  It is a matter of mutliplart, but I hope that simple to follow. I need to move my VM's to another store of data from my ESXi host / node, so I can upgrade the host harware. Quick background; We have a Dell T605 ESXi server with 1 RAID 5 array. We're going to upgrade the current RAID and add another RAID 1, using RAID 1 for the console and RAID 5 for our database. We now have another ESXi host online, and the main quaestion is what is the best way to move the virtual machine to the host 'temporary', while we improve the primary host. The virtual machine need not run, what is the best way to copy them from one host to another? Once copied to the host 'main', how ca we add these VM in our inventory? We have researchd, moving the virtual machine using SCP fast and tested, works well, but we can't understand how to add to our inventory VM in the VI Client cousole. Currtenlty we test using Vcenter converter. Not sure that the best and fastest is to make our copy of data / backup.

  Thanks for your help and your thoughts...

  There are many options availible to do what you want. You can:

  (1) CPC (as you already have)

  (2) to clone the VMDK (vmkfstools - i, in your case, you will need to use rcli)

  (3) storage Vmotion

  Once you get it on the new data store, (if you are on the same HOST) you want to remove the virtual machine (you moved) inventory, and then access the *.vmx on the new data store and (right click) add to the inventory.

  Alto.

• How to use the command to move the machine to a data store in another data store in WTT(Windows Test Technology) Atlas (2.7)?

  I searched doc help WTT Atlas, just found this: "the MoveMachine command allows users to move client computers between the basins of the machine. This command assumes that the user has permissions of correction to carry out operations and generates an error if this is not the case. "

  Note: this command just explain machine displacement between the watersheds of the machine instead of the data store.

  This issue is beyond the scope of this site (for consumers) and to be sure, you get the best (and fastest) reply, we have to ask either on Technet (for IT Pro) or MSDN (for developers)

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• Move drive VM to a to another data store

  Hi guys,.

  In my environment, we divided the data banks on two virtual machines. I'm migrating all the drives in a data store to another by using the following code.

  $HD = get-hard drive - data store "f2as01_nfs_hoss01".

  {foreach ($i in $HD)

  Moving-hard drive - disk hard $i Datastore-"f1aa01_nfs_hoss01" - confirm: $false

  }

  However, I get the following error:

  Moving-hard drive: 26/03/2014 12:53:40 hard drive Move the specified parameter "Datastore" expects a single value, but your criteria of name "f1aa01_nfs_hoss01" corresponds to multiple values.
  C:\Users\grantg\AppData\Local\Temp\5eed2c4f-a0e2-4a09-8855-1efcf58fbc90.ps1:7 tank: 14
  {+ Hard drive move < < < <-disk hard - $i "f1aa01_nfs_hoss01" data store - confirm: $false}
  + CategoryInfo: InvalidResult: ([System.Collecti, dObjectInterop]:'1 List) [Move-hard drive], VimException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Core_ObnSelector_SelectObjectByNameCore_MoreResultsThanExpected, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.VirtualDevice.MoveHardDisk

  I know PS don't like spaces, but could there be a problem with underscores too?

  Concerning

  Mr G

  Hello

  as commented, there maybe more than 2 with the name "f1aa01_nfs_hoss01" data warehouses (in different hosts).

  When using powercli, that's not a good practice to have more than one data store with the same name.

  You must change the name of the data store (s), in order to have a single data store with the same name.

  Until you do this, the powercli script will fail!

  Best regards

  Pablo

• Error in copy/move in the data store

  When I try to copy/move files from a data store to another store of data in vCenter 4.1, then I get the error message saying "cannot access the file.

  ESXi 4.1

  vCenter 4.1, Windows 2008 R2

  Maybe you should do FastSCP a try? Also, make sure that ISO is not mounted to a guest.