[TriLUG] Semi-OT: vmware vmotion

[Ron Kelley]

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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