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    <title>topic vMotion without shared storage - undocumented limitations in vMotion &amp; Resource Management Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Like a lot of people we have successfully used Enhanced vMotion or vMotion without shared storage in multiple vBlock and VSPEX hardware refreshes.&amp;nbsp; Our customer has come to expect the ability to move workloads around with no shared storage requirement and we have done many hundreds.&amp;nbsp; It's the greatest.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Just realized a limitation though that I cannot find in the documentation.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-9F1D4A3B-3392-46A3-8720-73CBFA000A3C.html" title="https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-9F1D4A3B-3392-46A3-8720-73CBFA000A3C.html"&gt;Requirements and Limitations for vMotion Without Shared Storage&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;One cannot select a datastore cluster for the destination, you have to choose a datastore.&amp;nbsp; If you go through the wizard choosing "Select compute resource first" then when you get to the storage selection you are presented with datastores only, no datastore clusters.&amp;nbsp; This is even with SDRS enabled in fully automated mode.&amp;nbsp; If you go through the wizard choosing "Select storage resource first", you are immediately presented with a message "Datastore clusters cannot be selected when migrating storage and compute resources for powered-on virtual machines. Select a datastore."&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We've just never questioned this but I'm curious as to why this limitation would exist.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Anyway if you know any more about this or have any comments feel free.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;ESXi 6.0 Update 2&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2016 20:47:23 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>dtsmith62</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2016-12-14T20:47:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>vMotion without shared storage - undocumented limitations</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vMotion-Resource-Management/vMotion-without-shared-storage-undocumented-limitations/m-p/485732#M703</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Like a lot of people we have successfully used Enhanced vMotion or vMotion without shared storage in multiple vBlock and VSPEX hardware refreshes.&amp;nbsp; Our customer has come to expect the ability to move workloads around with no shared storage requirement and we have done many hundreds.&amp;nbsp; It's the greatest.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Just realized a limitation though that I cannot find in the documentation.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-9F1D4A3B-3392-46A3-8720-73CBFA000A3C.html" title="https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-9F1D4A3B-3392-46A3-8720-73CBFA000A3C.html"&gt;Requirements and Limitations for vMotion Without Shared Storage&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;One cannot select a datastore cluster for the destination, you have to choose a datastore.&amp;nbsp; If you go through the wizard choosing "Select compute resource first" then when you get to the storage selection you are presented with datastores only, no datastore clusters.&amp;nbsp; This is even with SDRS enabled in fully automated mode.&amp;nbsp; If you go through the wizard choosing "Select storage resource first", you are immediately presented with a message "Datastore clusters cannot be selected when migrating storage and compute resources for powered-on virtual machines. Select a datastore."&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We've just never questioned this but I'm curious as to why this limitation would exist.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Anyway if you know any more about this or have any comments feel free.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;ESXi 6.0 Update 2&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2016 20:47:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>dtsmith62</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-12-14T20:47:23Z</dc:date>
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