topic Re: VMOTION between VLANs in VI: VMware ESX™ 3.5 Discussions

VMOTION between VLANs

nanair01 — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:09:47 GMT

Can I do the VMOTION between two VLAN's say ID 101 and ID 102?

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Re: VMOTION between VLANs

HannaL — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:19:57 GMT

Are you talking about the VMotion network or the VM's using different vlan ids?

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002383

this is a good troubleshooting guide, if vmotion fails at 10% that is when it first starts to talk on the VMotion network:

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003734

Hope that helps

Hanna

Re: VMOTION between VLANs

nanair01 — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:23:08 GMT

If the VMOTION network on two hosts are on diff VLAN's, can I do VMOTION between them? I hope this is quite clear now. I will go through the links which you had posted. Thank you!

Re: VMOTION between VLANs

Rubeck — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:46:50 GMT

If these VLANs have L3 access to each other, then yes.... (verify that the L3 device routing your traffic can do it at Gbit speed)

/Rubeck

Re: VMOTION between VLANs

nanair01 — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:48:39 GMT

So that means, these are still in two diff networks and if no proper routing is in place, VMOTION fails right?

Re: VMOTION between VLANs

Rubeck — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:54:11 GMT

Yes... It would fail if no prober routing is in place.

Check vmkernel default gateways (esxcfg-route) and by using vmkping...

/Rubeck

Re: VMOTION between VLANs

nanair01 — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:00:38 GMT

Thank you, that solves the puzzle!

Re: VMOTION between VLANs

Rubeck — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:04:04 GMT

No problem...

Happy to help out..

/Rubz