Re: Headroom calculation in an ESXi
Thanks Vicky,I meant just vMotion and not Storage vMotion.Is vMotion also not supported on VMs w/RDMs? -Rahul
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"Migration with vSphere vMotion® of clustered virtual machines".Above statement under limitation (refer guide) is about vMotion (not storage vMotion), blog link was about SVMOtion.
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Dear team, our storage informed us that these people are scheduling maitaince activity in the coming weekend, the both SAN switches are in redundant mode so no impact of the UPSactivity on the...
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You need confirme if the 4 paths to LUN are across differents Fabrics, cause maybe you have 4 paths trough only one Fabric, and if the switch from this Frabric goes down do you will loose access to...
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Re: Incorrect "Used Storage" reported - ESX 5.5
Hi All, Apologies for missing to update the Thread, well VMware confirmed that is as per design and are trying to make it better, The vpxa agent on each host schedules a thread to monitor the free...
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As I said to you in MP, the "Get-Datastore" method worked for me, but one question remains. As I understand, this problem should have disappeared maximum 5 minutes after its apparation since vpxa is...
View ArticleRe: vmotion of VMs wit RDMs
If this is a Cluster-across-boxes configuration, I'd suggest you move the MSCS resources to one of the nodes and shut down the second one rather than running both MSCS nodes on the same physical host....
View ArticleRe: Management Plugin for vSphere: which vStorage API
I have the same question.How vStorage APIs leverage vendors' resource like snapshot or site recovery etc... ?
View ArticleHow to change the storage
Hi, There are three storage now. e.g.(Storage A, StorageB, StorageC) I created the virtual machine and configured the storage as StorageA. (This server is running now) But i would like to change the...
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Hi and welcome to the communities, If you have a vCenter and at least the ESXi standard license, you can perform a storage vMotion while the VM is running. If you don't have that, you need to shut the...
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Hi Tim, I'm sorry that this is the first time to play with VM so let me confirm you some points. I shut the VM down but couldn't find "migrate". Is it the different name....? My version is 5.1.0. Thanks.
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Re: How to change the storage
In addition to above response.From VI client you can get one more option to move VM files folder to other datastore connected to same host. Plz refer attachment with screenshot:
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Hi Vicky, I could open the Datastore Browserr. 1 ) Should i power off the server when i move the folders to other storage? 2) There are three folders under root now. Should i move the folder "1....
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Hi Friend, If you do not have vCenter server then you can not use any option that "Tim" has specified. I think, you are connected to your ESXi host through vSphere desktop client (aka VI client). If...
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The procedure above was given for migrating VM i.e. in your case, TEST MACHINE. If you want to move other folders i.e ISO file and vSphere Management Assistant folder, then you can straightaway click...
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Hi Vicky,I did that procedure but one thing is weird.When i see the resources on VM, it shows Srotage A and B.I moved the folders but still remaining. Why...?Should i do the following thing?1. Choose...
View ArticleRe: Management Plugin for vSphere: which vStorage API
Yes, You can refer this VMware site page for the features those leverages storage APIs VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Third Party Integration | United States
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No not needed to unmount storage A. Plz do not do that. It seems, still all VM files are not migrated to storage B. how many VMDKS (VM disks) are attached to your VM? Can you please attach all the...
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