[TriLUG] Semi-OT: vmware vmotion

[Jason Evans]

Matt:  I meant 1 datastore per host, sorry for miss-wording that.

Ron: Thanks.  I was trying to avoid having the shared storage
solution, but I guess that's not possible.


Best Regards,
Jason


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Ron Kelley <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jason,
>
> For vMotion to work, you need the correct license (Enterprise I think) to enable vMotion *and* a shared storage solution (NFS, shared iSCSI, or SAN).
>
> If your two servers only have a locally attached datastore (on-board SATA/SAS drive), you will not be able to vMotion your VM.  The best you can do is suspend your VM then move the files to the other data store.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ron
> rkelleyrtp at gmail.com
>
> On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Jason Evans wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've got 2 servers both running esxi 4.1 each with 1 datastore.  I'm
>> trying to get vmotion to work between the two servers with the VM
>> powered on without creating a go-between NFS share.  In vshpere, I
>> have a datacenter (XYZ) created and under the datacenter, I have
>> cluster (ABC) created.  In the cluster is host 1 and host 2.  The VM
>> is running RHEL5 and the goal is to migrate it from host 1 to host 2
>> without shutting it down.  All of the documentation that I've seen
>> says that an NFS share must be created or an external LUN must be
>> connected to for this to work.  Is there another way of doing this?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Jason
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