VMotion on two hosts

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• vMotion between two hosts with different version?

  
  Hello

  Can I vMotion VM between two hosts with different version? For example, a virtual machine of esxi 6.0 5.5 esxi and esxi esxi 6.0 5.5 vMotion.

  Thank you.

  Yes, it will avoid you to move.

• Having a problem with vmotion between two hosts with processors Intel E5640

  Hi all.

  We organize a group of 14 guests, each with ESX 4.0, build 261974 installed.

  They are managed through vCenter 4.0.0 and construction 258672, vSphere client 4.0.0 builf 258672.

  The hosts are blades from IBM, in a BladecenterH.

  Some of the blades are older model HS21 (type 7995) with processors Intel Xeon E5440.

  The rest of the blades are more recent model HS22V (type 7871) with processors Intel Xeon E5640.

  We are currently replacing old HS21 blades with more the HS22 blades, so we just bought 7 HS22s, all with the same Intel E5640 processors located in the blades currently in service. One of the things that this transition will happen for us is allowing us to have the same processor type in all of our blades and remove vMotion compatibility problems we had in the past. We were unable to turn on CVS, because we would have had to shut down a cluster of virtual machines on the latest hosts and could not take this kind of failure. We will turn VCA after that.

  Here's the question:

  We just installed the first new knives, and when turn on us and try to vMotion VMs to it, it fails. He gives us the error standard vMotion on CPU register incompatibilities, and that we should read kb1993. The thing is, they all have the same processor. Same identifier type, same everything, yet for some reason vCenter is convinced they are incompatible. We checked things in BIOS, and they are all the same.

  We are ideas, other than the new knives have a later rev BIOS than the old ones.

  Any thoughts?

  Thank you!

  -Tim

  According to the missing pieces, http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5086963 should help you solve the problem.

  André

• VMotion between 2 Hosts with different processors

  Hallo,

  I have a server in my homelab I use for studies of VMsphere and I want to get a second machine to test advanced features such as HA, Vmotion etc.

  My first server has a map of X9SCM-9 with processor Xeon E3-1230V2 (Ivy Bridge). I am currently running ESX 5.0 U2 on it.

  I was counting on obtaining of material quality for the second host consumers because I don't want to spend a lot on it, so I thought that I need any CPU generation Ivy Bridge.

  I tested today with a second machine with a Pentium G2020 Ivy Bridge, but when I try to Vmotion he says "the virtual machine requires physical features that are not available or disabled on the host... ».

  So I figure there must be a difference in architecture regardless of the CPU beeing an Ivy Bridge CPU.

  When I try to activate CVS it just me are going to the 'Nehalem' Version so my virtual machines running on host 1 would not be able to use all the features of the CPU since the Xeon.

  So the question boils down to: what is the processor less which offer compatibility VCA L5?

  Or is there something else to consider in VMotion between two hosts with different processors?

  I got a shared storage, etc. of the same network configuration.

  Thank you

  Benjamin

  Hi Benjamin,

  For compatibility VCA L5 want to look at one of the following models, Intel CPU:

  • Ivy Bridge: Series E3-1200-v2
  • HASWELL

  I would recommend mental health that before rushing and a CPU purchase, check if a cheaper option would be, as Jon mentions in suppresss some fo the CPU compatibility checks so obviously, this is not desirable in a production environment, and must be applied in your study of VMware Lab to the home address.

  Hope this helps,

  Simon

  TechHead

  http://techhead.co

• vMotion (without shared storage) between two hosts with different vSwitches standard s VM

  I can VM vMotion (without shared storage) between two hosts with different vSwitches standard? The vSwitches on these two hosts have different names and number of NIC, but have the same name of portgroup.

  
  Thank you.

  Yes, you can in a Storage VMotion to one Esxi to another with no shared storage...

  It is important the portgroup bears the same name... This is the reference for the VM...

• Virtual MACHINE running on two hosts after hung vmotion

  Hello

  I started a VMotion of virtual machine by host A to host B. The request got hung at 65% for several hours. I restarted the VCenter service, registered to vsphere. The process was running is longer, but now the virtual machine appears on the Host A and host B.

  The Cluster-'Virtual Machine' tab displays the virtual machine and cycles between two hosts seconds couple?

  Anyone seen this before? How can I fix it? Thanks in advance!

  First of all, it's impossible.  A virtual machine cannot be in 2 places at once.  It's just in the transition.

  Secondly, vCenter manages the process but it doesn't actually do the vMotion, ESX hosts are.

  What is happening is life of the virtual machine on the host only until the end of the evolution towards the other host (somewhere around 97%) when the transfer is confirmed with the new host.

  Best thing to do is to restart the services of management on both hosts and see if that frees the vMotion.

• Stop reboot request when fast vMotioning to a host with a different processor

  I need help to find a better way to deal with a prompt to reboot my users get due to a vDesktop in model (Dell 710) host vMotioned to another (Dell 720). The difference between the two is the processor models. The 710 is a Xeon X 5670 and the 720 is a Xeon E5-2667. The two processors use the same .inf (cpu.inf) file and apparently the drivers. Simply, it triggers the installation process of the material causing the Plug and Play Manager to require a restart of the operating system after the installation. The result, I'm wanting just needs that this reboot window displays don't not weither would it by slaughtering the hardware installation process, hide the window of dialogue itself, or any other possible way to configure the system which does not show users. I've confirmed that you don't have to restart the machine remain operational. Here is some additional information on the operating system and all.

  Windows 7 32 bit

  1 vCPU

  2G of RAM

  vSphere 5.0.0 623860

  Discover Constable's 5.0.0 481677

  Any suggestions or thoughts are greatly appreciated.

  Tanner

  I encountered the same problem and the only solution I've found so far is to start the master on both hosts.  When he started on the two hosts, the message no longer appears when moving the virtual machine back to a host with a different model of CPU.  I have two clusters currently, so I have not tested vMotioning fast machine between hosts with different CPU while it is running.  When I had the chance to test, I'll post my results.

  -Chris

• VMotion between several hosts

  I have just joined a company that executes 2 guests on ESXi 4.1 Standard, and both hosts have 1 CPU.

  I have get a business license for the two hosts to allow storage vmotion, but would welcome that bumping the hosts up to 2xCPUs (with additional CPU licenses).

  If finance means that I can't upgrade the two hosts, for example, if you had 1xCPU and the other 2, vmotion would fail? If so, will create a VCA basic iron out this problem?

  Thank you

  Hello..

  vMoton should work just fine for a long time the CPU being identical acrosse the two hosts and ofc with good installed licenses.

  It doesn't matter if a host has only one and another two physical processors. (Ive got a mixed cluster here with some guests with 2xCPUs and some CPU 4 x)

  VCA troubleshoots only presenting sets of features identical CPU on all hosts as long they are in the same family... See more details here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003212

  / Rubeck

• VM doesn't have a vmotion after that host was isolated.

  Hello world!

  We have recovered from it, but had to manually!

  One of our hosts running 4.1 became isolated, because vsphere always showed the host, but we could not even place the host mode now as most of the features are grayed out. Host showed as disconnected in vsphere. clicking on CONNECT has not set the it. Reboot the host, the host came back with an error «file missing startup...» ", and we had to use the REPAIR cd to get it restored.

  My question is, why didn't all of vmotion of our VM for the other two hosts when this host became isolated?

  HA is enabled,

  VMware HA is checked to activate the tracking host.

  Admission control is enabled

  Admission control policy is set: chess host tolerates the value: 1

  Virtual Machine options are: cluster parameters: vm restart priority: are AVERAGE and response of isolation the host is set to Power Off.

  Monitoring of the VM is: VM monitoring only and the sensitivity is set to MEDIUM.

  We use Vsphere Essentials Plus 4.1 on 3 HP DL 365 G5 hosts and an EMC Clariion SAN.

  Thank you!

  Peter

  Your DNS server on the host that is down?  I had a simiar situation where both of my primary and secondary DNS servers have been on the host that is down.  vCenter eventially lost communication with guests because he could not resolve names.  Restart the host did not work because they were stopping the process of HA. vCenter could not restart on the other hosts because of the DNS problem.  I had to open a web console on the first host to start the DNS servers manually.

  I now have a rule of DRS Setup so that my DNS servers cannot be on the same host.  I also put the names of all my hosts in the host file on my server vCenter.

• VMotion fails with «Host CPU is incompatible...» »

  After setting our vCenter 4 / environment laboratory of ESX 4 with two hosts ESX 4, I added two of our ESX 3.5 hosts in vCenter 4 managed environment. These 3.5 hosts had 10 Windows 2003 EE 64-bit Server identical virtual machines, running on them. I then used storage vMotion (migration) to move all ten VMs over a LUN share by the ESX 4 hosts and migrate them while they are now running on the ESX 4 hosts.  They came over the fine. Activated fine. Ran very well. vMotioned back between the two ESX 4 hosts fine.

  I then put off 5 of the 10 computers virtual and enhanced their virtual hardware version 4 to version 7. I have them fed up.

  I have also built several new virtual machines on the host ESX 4 from scratch using the same process and the same image that I used to create virtual machines hosted on ESX 3.5 hosts. So far so good.  Can I vMotion between all 5 virtual machines that are still at version 4 guests two ESX 4 and I can vMotion new computers virtual 7 built on ESX4 host, but if I try to vMotion of 5 virtual machines have been upgraded to version 7, I get the message below.

  Host CPU is incomaptible with the requirements of the virtual machine to CPUID level 0 x 1 register 'cex '.
  Bits of the host: 0000:0000:0000:0000:0010:0000:0001
  Required: 1000:0000:0000:000 x: x 10 xx10:0: xxx0:x 001
  Inconsistency detected for these features:
  * General incompatibilities; see section 1993 of possible solutions.

  I read the KB article referenced, but this is to overcome the problems with fast vMotioning between levels or different processor types. These two hosts ESX 4 (10-esx-mp and mp-esx-11) are identical DL580 G5. It's only the improved VMs that fail to migrate.

  I stop each host ESX 4, restarted in the BIOS and set the option of VT processor on 'disable', of booted up the box, let it come completely up, then again, rebooted the box of ebb in BIOS and by setting the option VT back on 'enable '. It's not helping.

  Someone else has seen this?

  If you have identical CPU, then check the configuration of virtual machine (in the .vmx file) to see if there is an old CPUID mask value and simply remove them.

  Then again turn on the virtual machine.

  See also:

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1993

  André

• Can we do vMotion between two datacenter if VM is poweredoff

  Dear team,

  Can we do vMotion between two data center (esxi5, x)

  Can we do SVMotion between two data center (esxi5, x)

  Note: it is not a physical data center, it is a virtual data center

  can we do vMotion between clusters (esxi5.x)

  can we do SVMotion between clusters (esxi5.x)

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  Can we do vMotion between two data center (esxi5, x)

  Yes.

  Can we do SVMotion between two data center (esxi5, x)

  Yes.

  can we do vMotion between clusters (esxi5.x)

  Yes.

  can we do SVMotion between clusters (esxi5.x)

  Yes.

• can we do vMotion between two data center

  Dear team,

  Can we do vMotion between two data center (esxi5, x)

  Can we do SVMotion between two data center (esxi5, x)

  Note: it is not a physical data center, it is a virtual data center

  can we do vMotion between clusters (esxi5.x)

  can we do SVMotion between clusters (esxi5.x)

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  Can we do vMotion between two data center (esxi5, x)

  NO, you can't.

  Can we do SVMotion between two data center (esxi5, x)

  Yes, as long as data warehouses are shared.

  can we do vMotion between clusters (esxi5.x)

  Yes, as they perform the same CPU families.

  can we do SVMotion between clusters (esxi5.x)

  Yes, as long as data warehouses are shared.

• Three-node cluster lose two hosts

  In a knot three cluster is it possible to lose two hosts and keep all three data warehouses are still online?

  lol if you lose two guests you don't have redundancy and disconnected data warehouses

• Storage vmotion - 3.5 hosts and 4.1

  Having 2 esx3.5 u3 (or whatever the last update was for 3.5) and 2 new esxi 4.1 (Yes, I know - but it is only temporary - will be promoted to the 5.1 this fall).

  3.5 hosts to connect to the storage on the old NetApp using iSCSI. 4.1 guests have the new NetApp NFS data warehouses but also have access to iSCSI data stores.

  So storage vmotion, 3.5 guests should be able to 'see' NFS data warehouses? Alternatively, can the fact that the destination can see both of them, enough?

  Also - if I need to create data warehouses NFS on the 3.5 hosts - tips for me?

  ;-)

  wait - wait

  I think it's become clear to me. Wow - so simple! As long as the new hosts can see old data warehouses (they do it), then we have vmotion of old hosts again and then storage vmotion of iscsi to the NFS and old guests don't need to 'see' the NFS at all.

  DUH!

  LOL - Thanks for being a sounding box!

• Move a virtual machine to turn off between two hosts, shared storage

  Dear Experts,

  Please guide me for the next case. There are two hosts of Esxi, host 1 is Esxi 4.0 and host 2 is Esxi 4.1. There are store data SAN storage that is visible to both hosts.

  I watched solard winds VM monitor utility that hosting 2 consumes 90% of the memory while its processor is ok. On host 1 is normal. So, I want to spend only a few VM of to host 1. So please correct me if what I think are OK. I will turn off the virtual machine to be moved from host 2. Then I it will remove host 2 inventory. Then on host 1, I'll go to the data store in the folder that VM and do a right click on the file 'say add to the inventory' and now I'm going to see this virtual machine in the inventory of the host list, just turn on and everything is perfect, is this correct?

  Second question on the same hosts, there are a few other data stores that are visible to a host. As if this is the case there is a virtual machine on a data store that is visible to host 2 and I want to spend this VM to host 1 to reduce load on host 2. How to move this virtual machine because this data store is not visible to host 1? Will I have to copy this VM files in a data store that is visible to host 1? If YES then what real required to copy files?

  Kindly help me.

  Kind regards

  From your description I m assuming that you use not vCenter to manage your hosts, correct?

  If you have a store of data shared between two hosts you can do the steps you descripte (power off, remove the inventory etc.).

  For your second case there are several ways, it depends on where you want to place the virtual machine in the future. Wouldn't be on the shared data store that already exists or can in the local data store on the other host? Or is there an option to also display the current data store to host 1?

  If you want to copy the VM files copy the whole folder of it.

  Kind regards

  Mario