Cold Migration Question
I need to cold migrate from vpshere 4.1 hosts to vsphere 5.0 hosts. The 5.0 hosts are going to be hosting VMFS 5 datastores. Will I be able to do this since the 4.1 hosts can't read VMFS 5?
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you'll need to move to a VMFS3 LUN. The host won't even see the VMFS5 LUN
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Even if it's a cold migration? I won't be sharing datastores to these old hosts as the storage and servers are seperate...
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I'd suggest you run RVTools (http://www.robware.net/) to see whether the files on Datastore05 are reported as Zombies in the vHealth tab. If yes, either follow Linjo's advice or at least rename the...
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i have ibm 3512 storage and Essentials Plus . i want to use and learn vasa technology. how to install and how to find install setup ?thanks for helping
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Hi Have a look at this article https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/anthonyv/entry/installing_the_ibm_xiv_vasa_provider_for_vmware1?lang=en Gregg
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Thanks for advice. Downloading RVTools now....will run. I am finding another VM with odd folders and files on datastores. The VM is named "emgr01" and has a disk defined on Datastore01 in a folder...
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Present the VMFS3 datastores to the new ESXi 5.X hosts and then perform a cold migration of both host and datastore.
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I actually can't present the source storage as it is an IBM S chassis with internal storage..
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i have san storage and qnap iscsi storage. in datastore deatials, san storage lun block size 1 mb - qnap iscsi lun block size 4 mb . What is the difference between them so fast or slow ? can i change...
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i have ibm 3512 storage . i want to learn that which mode the my device is working. active-active or active-passive
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Setting up EMC VNXe3150 iSCSI SAN Storage in High Availabiliyhttp://communities.vmware.com/people/habibalby/blog/2013/03/12/vnxe3150Finally, the EMC VNXe3150 got installed and configured and almost...
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I believe it's an active/passive as the default Path Selection Policy for the IBM 3500 series is Most recently Used (MRU). (At least acording to the VMware Compatibilty Guides..) Also there's a KB...
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The VMFS5 file system uses a unified block size of 1MB, whereas VMFS3 used different block sizes depending on the maximum size of the files, i.e. virtual disks stored on the datastore. However, when...
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I followed through and booted up one of the physical hosts with a 'gparted' .ISO and found the following (and I assume that /dev/sda1 extended partition is in fact the boot partition): Device Name...
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Actually it's the (/dev/sda4) partition which is the boot partition. The 1GB requirement is for all system partitions - the first 5 partitions - together (see the link about partitioning I posted...
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ratease wrote: Hi David, What I mean is: If I remove access through our storage management, the ESXi server will not have a clue why the storage disappeared. Hence it will start generating errors etc....
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