VMotion & SVMotion

[PKKR]

While VMotion & SVMotion., what is the exact file sequence?

Thanks,

Prashant

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

At a high level....

vMotion is a live migration of a guest and it's active memory shares from one ESX host to the other.

SvMotion is a live migration of virtual machine disk files.

[weinstein5]

And to add to Troy's answer with SVmotio the VM does not change hosts -

[aravinds3107]

vMotion is Live Migrating the VM from one host to anothe host without downtime. Check this video for better understanding

Storage vMotion - Migrating the Vm folder ( VMX, VMDK files) from one datastore to another datastore without downtime, In this case host would be the same

[PKKR]

Hi All,

We have different files like nvram, log file, vmx, vmdk. My query is ., what is the order in which these files move?

Thanks,

Prashant

[weinstein5]

with vmotion nothing gets copied - with svmotion as I understand it the non-VMDK files get copied first and then the vmdk files I am not sure of the order but would assume the order in the directory -

[PKKR]

Thanks Einstein.

-Prashant

[rickardnobel]

Storage vMotion - Migrating the Vm folder ( VMX, VMDK files) from one datastore to another datastore without downtime, In this case host would be the same

For a VM with several hard disks it could be noted that by selecting Advanced you could move only selected VMDK files to new locations.

[PKKR]

Thank You Ricard.

-Prashant