Storage vmotion the VMS residing on a store of data to another data store

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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 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 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.

  André

• 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.

• 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

• Can not put on the virtual computer after Storage VMotion

  I use the snap for the customer VI do some storage vmotion, where I can best use our space on our tables. I have a particular virtual machine that I transferred autour storage that has a total of 3 VMDK, all on separate LUNS. As soon as I moved them all in the right place, where I wanted them, I can't turn on the virtual machine because it says there is no space available on the device. I am trying to boot the machine with 4 GB of memory, the boot LUN more than 400 GB free on it. The other two LUNS have 225 MB, and 192 MB of free space. I can only start the machine if I change the memory of 192 MB or less. I know that problems with the file exchange and memory overhead, but this virtual machine has always run with these two LUNS with very little space. I can only assume it is somehow related to the storage vmotion. The pagefile is set to store the virtual machine and I'm still having the problem. Need help.

  Storage vmotion the VMX file of the LUN with more space (easier) or add manually a config parameter (settings, Options, general, settings) sched.swap.dir = / vmfs/volumes/DS/Machine

  (where DS and Machine related to your environment).

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

  I use storage vMotion the remote CLI much and I use almost exclusively the function to simply move some disks and leave some wherever they are. I saw the video demo of the user interface provided and it seemed to make a gesture of any disk group, just like the non-Plug-in support for Virtual Center did. Does anyone have knowledge of defining targett if different volumes of individual disk in the new GUI?

  Yes, click on the Advanced button. Then you can choose the target for each disc.

• Storage vMotion with Syncrep on Equallogic San

  Hello

  We recently bought 2 San Equallogic (PS6510ES) and turned on synchronous replication between them.

  We use ESXi 5.5 and followed the best practices guide to disable TCP ack and 60 logintimeout value.

  Everything seems to work fine until we tried Storage vMotion/migration and cloning VMS on the San.

  When we did the migration of 2 volumes on the EQL SAN storage (the target volume has active syncrep), the target volume will be out-of-sync and then the storage vMotion will hang sometimes.

  The worst is when such a problem has occurred, all other volumes on the EQL constantly to respond also. All volumes will not respond until we rebooted the corresponding ESXi host (NOTE: simple shut down/power outside the host won't help.) The San EQL will only return to normal after a reboot of the ESXi host).

  If we pause / off the syncrep before Storage vMotion, the problem will not happen.

  Is this normal or not?

  In addition, whenever the problem occurred, the latency of writing the corresponding volume will be dry and we will receive alerts similar to the following:

  connection iSCSI target ' xx.xx.xx.xx:3260, iqn.2001 - 05.com.equallogic:xxxxx - test-volume ' initiator 'xx.xx.xx.xx:xxxxx, eqlinitiatorsyncrep' failed for the following reason:

  Initiator, disconnected from the target when connecting.

  Thanks in advance.

  Hi Joerg,

  What is a #SR? I opened a record of support to 24 June and still waiting for Dell to contact me.

  Ryan

• Please explain SVmotion (Storage Vmotion) and DRS for storage in simple words

  Friends,

  I little confusing... could you please contact Storage vmotion and DRS for storage in simple words and the important points to remember in this regard...

  Kind regards

  Sirot

  9884106697

  Storage DRS is a feature that you allow warehouses of data aggregated on a single object (cluster) and recommend the implementation of disks in virtual machine based on the performance of the store of data and the available space on the data store.

  The DRS storage uses Storage vMotion to migrate virtual (online) computers from a data store to another to balance data store performance and space.

  You can use Storage vMotion without storage DRS too, moving virtual machine between clusters of DRS storage and warehouses of data even from the local level to the data store shared.

• Comments showing that the presence of 0 bytes on a data store that is not?

  Hi all, I'm trying to retire a LUN and storage, it is sitting on, but have several guests that are displayed as on this data store in vSphere.  The strange thing is all show space 0.00 bytes used, and if I browse the data store there aren't any records related to the expectations of the customers.  I believe that clients in question may have their primary storage on this data store at some point in the past.  I have storage vMotioned the guests in question to a data to another store but it moved were the real files associated with the guest of the database that they are really on the new data store I was moved successfully to, while the presence on the remains of the problem data store.

  Any idea what I can look at to get out of it?  I'm afraid to remove the data store if there is really something that I don't see.

  Thank you

  David

  This happens usually if the CD (or floppy) drive virtual points to an image file on the data store (don't don't even need to be connected) or the virtual machine has one or more active snapshots where one of the snapshots have been created while the virtual machine had a connection to the data store. Depending on the size of your environment, you can click virtual machines or use for example RVTools (http://www.robware.net/) to find the settings.

  André

• Storage vMotion and RDM

  I have a question for you about storage vMotion. I have a virtual machine with a vmdk file and a RDM. I want to storage vmotion the vmdk file. There is also a file associated with the ROW pointer. How this pointer file is reassocie to the RDM? I'm evacuating small LUNS and move virtual machines to the largest lun.

  On page 199 and 201 of the basic ESX Administrator's Guide, it states that, if I select "same as Source for a RDM, only the mapping file will be migrated. Have you done this before? I just wanted to see if anyone in the field has had an experience with this process.

  7. If you chose to move the virtual machine configuration file and virtual disks, select a disc format, and then click

  Next.

  Description of the option

  Same as Source to use the format of the original virtual disk.

  If you select this option for a RDM in physical or virtual drive

  compatibility mode, only the mapping file is migrated.

  Thin provisioned using the format thin to save storage space. The thin virtual disk use as

  storage space because it needs for its initial implementation. When the virtual disk

  needs more space, it can grow in size up to its maximum allowed of capacity.

  This option is not available for RDM in physical compatibility mode. If you

  Select this option for a virtual RDM compatibility mode, the ROW is

  converted to a virtual disk. RDM converted virtual disks cannot be

  converted into RDM.

  Thick allocate an amount fixed disk space for the virtual disk. The virtual

  drive in thick format does not change its size and from the beginning

  occupies the entire data store space for her.

  This option is not available for RDM in physical compatibility mode. If you

  Select this option for a virtual RDM compatibility mode, the ROW is

  converted to a virtual disk. RDM converted virtual disks cannot be

  converted into RDM.

  Thank you

  Savoy6

  Hi Savoy6,

  When you sVmotion a virtual machine with a disc RDM, the pointer file is re-created on the new location and points to the raw LUN.

  Take a look at this kb for more information.

  It may be useful

  Concerning

  Franck

• 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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• Storage vmotion and SRM

  Hi guys,.

  Another question.

  How SRM cope with moving LUNS replicated and not replicated virtual machines?

  In blog of eppings duncan, he created agreat SRM FAQ. Inside, he mentions the following:

  What happens if you move one of the virtual machine that is protected in a data store that is not part of the current protected group of the virtual machine?

  Protection is revoked for the virtual machine. There will be a small yellow

  triangle associated in the protection group. This will be true

  even if you move (for example, storage VMotion) the virtual machine to a different

  store data that is replicated to the recovering site.

  If at this point, how do you take the virtual machine out of the protection group or add the virtual machine in the protection group?

  Thank you

  DC

  A new analysis of storage using the Array Manager Setup Wizard will clarify this point.

  See you soon

  Tim Oudin

• Storage vMotion to vCenter

  I have a Windows 2008 VM for vCenter on my lab. I'm under ESXi 5.1.

  I would like to know if it is possible to storage vMotion this Windows 2008 VM to a different data store, without losing of damaging vCenter server.

  I use Express database on Windows 2008.

  Yes, if your vCenter is licensed for Storage vMotion you can do it without problem.