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is possible use Storage VMotions is local datastore ?

pruchya — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 11:56:20 GMT

hello everyone

i have some questions about storage for vmotion for test benmark

i have 1 server install esxi with 2 local datastore as picture , is possible use datastore1,datastore3 vmotion across datastore

Am I correct in thinking that Must have 2 esxi server and storage shared with them for vmotion and how many shared i have ?

enough 1 shared like this ?

SVmotion/SVMotionLUNs = shared

XVmotion/XVMotionLUNs = shared

Deploy/DeployLUNs = shared

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could you please explain about 3 paremeter as below what does it mean ?

SVmotion/SVMotionLUNs,

XVmotion/XVMotionLUNs

Deploy/DeployLUNs

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// Infrastructure Ops Settings
// This section must be filled out prior to beginning benchmark runs.
// String SVmotion/SVMotionLUNs : Specifies which LUNs to use for Storage VMotions. Must be shared storage. : Default empty
SVmotion/SVMotionLUNs = <>
// String XVmotion/XVMotionLUNs : Specifies which LUNs to use for XVMotions. Must be shared storage. : Default empty
XVmotion/XVMotionLUNs = <>
// String Deploy/DeployLUNs : Specifies which LUNs to use for Deploys. Must be shared storage. : Default empty
Deploy/DeployLUNs = <>

Hi pruchya, VMmark requires 2 servers withRe: is possible use Storage VMotions is local datastore ?

RebeccaG — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:58:16 GMT

Hi pruchya,

Two servers with shared storage with at least 2 datastores is required for VMmark to run.

vMotion migrates a VMmark VM from one host to another host in the VMmark cluster. If you have only one host, this cannot happen and VMmark cannot generate a Score, Score_N_Tile_Test.txt.
SvMotion migrates a VMmark VM virtual disk from its datastore to the datastore you specify in SVmotion/SVMotionLUNs.
XvMotion does both of the above at the same time using XVmotion/XVMotionLUNs.
Deploy deploys a new VM onto the datastore Deploy/DeployLUNs.

In VMmark3.properties, if datastore3 was a shared datastore, it would look like:

SVmotion/SVMotionLUNs = datastore3

XVmotion/XVMotionLUNs = datastore3

Deploy/DeployLUNs = datastore3

Your VMmark Standby and DS3WebA VMs should be not be located on datastore3 in this example so that the Storage vmotion and Xvmotion can occur.

Re: Hi pruchya, VMmark requires 2 servers withRe: is possible use Storage VMotions is local datasto

anilspp — Fri, 20 May 2022 15:13:58 GMT

Thanks for sharing.