Migrating a Vm with snapshots. Works?

[NicholasFarmer]

In the past, moving VMs between Data stores or Hosts with snapshots was deadly.

Does this still happen in ESX4?

ESX4 does not throw the warning like ESX3.5 did.

[Troy_Clavell]

I think the same principles apply, the warning may just have been suppressed in vSphere4

see this KB

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003800

[NicholasFarmer]

Well, best way to answer your own question is to just test it.

You cannot migrate a VM with a snapshot. You will get the "the parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created"

Guess snapshot migrations are still a thing of the future!

Has anyone found a way to fix this or a way around it?

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

you can migrate a VM with snapshots, you just may be seeing a different issue. You are trying to do a vMotion in vCenter?

Is this the symptoms you are seeing?

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1005228

[NicholasFarmer]

You sir are a genius.

So you CAN migrate servers from an ESX 3.5 host on Local storage to ESX 4 host with SAN storage with snapshots.

The VM had three different vmdks with two snapshots making 9 wonderful files to play with but after fixing all of the CIDs, we had magic land!

Very work heavy to migrate vms with snaps but its a solution for those "oooh. crap" moments!

Thank you!