Questions tagged [vmotion]

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Combined vMotion and SvMotion via the vSphere Command-Line interface

Since vSphere 5.x we can now request a combined vMotion and Storage vMotion at the same time via the Web Client - but can it be done via the CLI (not PowerCLI)? I've read the documentation for 5.1 CLI and googled it pretty hard but I can't find any…
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Multiple-NIC vMotion in vSphere 5 with separate core switches

Having successfully followed VMware KB article setting up multi-nic vMotion, I am now struggling to get this working with a two core switches. A single Active vmnic and a single Standby vmnic is functioning as it should. However, the issue is due to…
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Monitor VMware 5.5 ESXi Storage vMotion Performance

Is there any way to monitor the performance of a storage vmotion while it is in progress? I would like to see something like a kb/s number. Anything other than just the basic % complete number you see in the vSphere Client.
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Cannot enable VMware EVC for Xeon E5-2630v3 (Haswell) on vSphere 6.0

I've got two DELL PowerEdge R730 servers loaded with a dual Xeon E5-2630v3 Haswell. When I installed VMware vCenter, I tried to create a Cluster with VMware vMotion EVC mode set to Haswell, since it's a Haswell chip, but VMware complains about the…
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Since I migrated vCenter to 5.1, some vms are migrating again and again

Yesterday I upgraded my vCenter to the last version 5.1 and I had to reconnect the hosts (running esx 5.0, last patches) Since I migrated, 5 vms (always the same) are vMotionned from host to host and when it's done it vMotions again to another…
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Virtual NIC on VM couldn't ping externally after Vmotion

Today I vmotioned 5 MS SQL 2005 servers over to a new DRS Cluster. All SQL servers use the "Production_LAN" network and a single virtual NIC of type "VMXNET 3". The first 4 SQL VM (Windows 2003 Standard or Enterprise x32 bit) vmotioned over without…
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vmware esxi wrong time after vmotion

After vMotion some guests went 2 hours ahead in time. 2 hours ahead of UTC is exactly our timezone. Why would it do that? AFAICS both source and destination hosts have the same configuration. But apparently not. What could be wrong?
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Does a VM maintain its vmid when moved from one vSphere cluster to another?

When vMotioning a VM from one vSphere cluster to another (managed by the same vCenter, if it matters), does the vmid stay the same?
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Can't vMotion specific VM

I have a VM (2008 R2, running SQL) that sits on a dedicated VLAN 70 that sits behind my TMG firewall. There is also a small CentOS web server that sits in the same DMZ, usually on the same ESXi box. When I do a vMotion of the SQL box there is no…
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VMware Requirements for VMotion

We have had some issues with our Linux guests, especially CentOS 5 and 6, on our VMware ESXi 4.1 cluster during times of vmotion events. For example, after a vmotion migration, our CentOS hosts appear to be powered on, but you cannot access them or…
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How to create a complex scheduled vmotion task in ESX 3.5

I need to migrate a bunch of VMs from one ESX 3.5 Cluster to another. Storage needs to be migrated from one iSCSI SAN to another, as well as the VMs. Hosts on Cluster A have access to one iSCSI SAN but not the destination. Hosts on Cluster B have…
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vMotion Public Servers

we are in a process to purchase a virtualized solution from HP (c-3000,HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Module, HP BL 460 G6, SB-40 with PVA ). my concern is the following: assume i have virtual machines like DNS , WEB and Email which is…
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How to detect vMotion from linux machine + rhel 7.2

We have a couple of Linux Red Hat virtual machines running on top of the VMware ESXi cluster. We aren't sure is vMotion configured or not. Is it possible to identify if vMotion is configured or activated, from within the guest Linux Red Hat OS…
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vSphere VMKernel per vlan?

I'm trying to understand a vSphere cluster where there are 20+ VMs on each host, almost all of them in unique vlans from each other. To have vMotion work successfully between the hosts does each vlan need to have a VMotion enabled VMKernel or will…
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Vmware VM shows old CPU after vMotion to faster CPU of same generation

I have struggled to find any official documentation on what I should expect to happen when vmotioning a VM from one host, to another than has the same generation CPU but different model. The VM runs as expected, but it still shows the old CPU model…
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