[TriLUG] Semi-OT: vmware vmotion

[Matt Pusateri]

No, you need shared storage either FC, iSCSI or NFS.  I've not seen enough data to suggest the iSCSI has enough of a performance increase to add complexity over NFS.  And all versions of ESXi support vmotion, but you do need vCenter.

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

Matt P.

On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Jason Evans wrote:

> 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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