vMotion problem

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Dear all expert,

I have a problem with vMotion Migration. I have 2 hosts, esxi1 and esxi2. noted: i don't have the share storage, everything i store on the local machine hard disk. esxi1 is the host that store all of vm. esxi2 is the new  one. so i am trying to move the only Virtual Machine (not included datastore) to the esxi2, but when on the step that i have to choose destination to move, it said that esxi2 can not access to datastore on esxi1.

so could all of you help or recomment me ? noted: i want to move VM from esxi1 to esxi2 without share storage.

thanks in advanced for all of ur helping.

kindergarten of VMware,:smileygrin:

[kaarthickvasude]

If you are using  vSphere 5.1 we can do the local storage vmotion -

• Open the vSphere Web Client

• Click “VMs and Templates”

• Right click the VM you want to migrate

• Select “Change both host and datastore

[syedak]

Hi Vivath,

Shared storage is one of the prerequisites for doing vMotion. You can use freeware like Openfiler or Starwind to configure shared storage.

[subhasis2009]

yes if you have Vsphere 5.1 then you can use VSA technology on storage. but it is cost-effective.

subhasis

[Anton_Kolomyeyt]

Just make sure you run NFS with OpenFiler as its iSCSI implementation coming with a free version is broken (commerical one uses other iSCSI core engine

and it has no issues like that - nice way to make money ). StarWind free version is fine with both (by default export iSCSI volume, can wrap a failover NFS share on top it if you prefer file rather then block access).

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Shared storage is one of the prerequisites for doing vMotion. You can use freeware like Openfiler or Starwind to configure shared storage.

[999abdulwahab]

Below listed are shared storage software used to build your own NAS. Any one of these will do the job.

Please ask for the doc to install them, if interested.

Abdul Wahab

Instructor - Cisco Data Center (CCNA/CCNP/CCIE), Virtualization (VMware/Hyper-V/Citrix) and SAN/NAS (EMC VMAX/VNX, Netapp, Hitachi, ZFS)

Netmetric Infosolutions Pvt Ltd

+91-9866090630

wahab.datacenter@gmail.com

[krishnav1982]

Vivath

as per the error what you mentioned, it should be no access to user for ESXi1 datastore. Also mention what are the ESXi 1 and 2 versions. VCenter 5.1 weblient has option to 'Vmotion anywhere with in datacenter", you can try.

Thanks

Vamsee