We are licensed for Essentials (Running vSphere 6.7.0) and unable to migrate storage, live. I understand that I will need the Standard Acceleration kit and would like to try before purchasing. However, my searches do not bring it up as a stand-alone solution. Is the trial of a new version of vSphere? A link would be helpful.
This is not how its going
You can reinstall one of your Hosts and reinstall a vCenter ... than you have a 60 Trial again.
Regards,
Joerg
How does your environment look like regarding storage, and networking, and what exactly do you need to migrate (from where to where)?
I'm asking, because it may be possible to achieve your goals with an "Essentials Plus" Kit, which allows live migration with both, compute and storage at the same time, even without shared storage.
André
No. svMotion require vSphere ESXi Std.
Regards
Joerg
The enhancement to “Change both host and datastore” using the migration wizard was introduced in 2012 with vSphere 5.1.0a, and only requires a vMotion license, which is included in Essentials Plus.
from VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0a Release Notes
Unable to access the cross-host Storage vMotion feature from the vSphere Web Client with an Essentials Plus license
If you start the migration wizard for a powered on virtual machine with an Essentials Plus license, the Change both host and datastore option in the migration wizard is disabled, and the following error message is displayed:
Storage vMotion is not licensed on this host.
To perform this migration without a license, power off the virtual machine.
This issue is resolved in this release.
André
Ah... again what learned!
Regards,
Joerg