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elijah1
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Moving VM

We have production environment esx4 and pilot. Each environment has it's own vCenter and those vCenters are not interconnected. I need to move VM from testing environment to the production. Is there any way to tun it without running converter - just moving machine somehow?

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Elijah.

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vmroyale
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Hello.

Check out kb 900 for options.

Good Luck!

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pauljawood
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Hi,

Can you have the host's on each site pilot and production share the storage. This would enable you to power down the machine in the pilot vc infrastructure and then either move that data to a share location and then power it up on the production side and use storage migration to move it to a production LUN.

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elijah1
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Good idea, but I cant't... pilot runs on PC with SATA disks and I cannot connect it to fiber storage.

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elijah1
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btw - I can move the data (VM directory) from testing storage to pilot production using inscp, but after this directory is moved to production storage, how do I start it as the new production VM?

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vmroyale
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After you move them, use the datastore browser. Browse to the directory containing the files, right-click on the .VMX file and choose the "Add to Inventory" option.

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AndreTheGiant
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As written before you can use copy all the VM folder (but the VM must be powered off) with SCP/FastSCP or similar tools.

Then readd to inventory and choose "I moved" the first time you power-on the VM.

Note that thin disks will converter to thick disks.

Andre

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elijah1
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"Note that thin disks will converter to thick disks"

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sorry for stupid question, but what do you mean by that?

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elijah1
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Thanks.

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AndreTheGiant
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sorry for stupid question, but what do you mean by that?

With vSphere you can create thin or thick disks.

Thin disk will grow dinamically as the guest disk grow.

Thick disk is pre-allocated.

See also:

Andre

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elijah1
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Thanks.

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