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3 Replies Last post: Jan 3, 2009 6:44 AM by caddo  

svmotion.pl: insufficient memory resources posted: Dec 29, 2008 5:21 PM

Click to view caddo's profile Enthusiast 57 posts since
Oct 22, 2008
I have a testing enviroment that i use to try VI features. I can use HA, vMotion and so on succesfully in the enviroment.

Everything is installed with Update 3 set of files for hosts and VC; hosts are ESXi.

After struggling with the syntax i managed to understand it but i keep getting "insufficient memory resources" error in Virtual Center after firing the command.

Anyone experienced this? Solutions?

Thank you.

Re: svmotion.pl: insufficient memory resources

1. Dec 29, 2008 7:35 PM in response to: caddo
Click to view williambishop's profile Master 1,157 posts since
Mar 9, 2006

Do you have enough free space on the destination lun? I ran into this a few weeks ago, and I tried several things. I svmotioned about 14 servers to new luns, and I ran into a batch of them with this problem.

I tried 3 things in tandem, so I don't know which solved it.

1. Rebooted virtual center

2. Migrated the guests to other hosts, and rebooted each host

3. Kept a minimum of guests on the target host *

3 was the one I think was the trick....I didn't have enough memory for the snapshot of ram plus the ram in use....that's not exactly what I mean.... just can't say what I'm thinking--having drunk entirely too much scotch tonight.)


Re: svmotion.pl: insufficient memory resources

2. Dec 29, 2008 7:41 PM in response to: caddo
Click to view weinstein5's profile Guru 6,331 posts since
Nov 19, 2005

As the other poster pointed out you need to make sure there are enough space on the where you are moving to - but you also must make sure there enough resources available on your ESX server - because for a brief period of time there will be two instances of the VM running on your ESX Server so if you do not have enough memory/cpu available for that sVMotion will fail with an insufficient resources error -


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