Best way to migrate VM without Vmotion

[JESX35]

Hello All,

Just wondering if you have ESX without vmotion but have HA what is the best way to migrate the VM back over to the oringal host in a cluster when HA moves a VM due to a host failure.

I know you can Export the VM over to the other host when it comes back up and you can add it to inventory if it is a hardware failure and the orginal host won't come back up anytime soon. What is the best way of doing this? is there a console command maybe to make HA push a VM over to the other host or is export still the best way?

[weinstein5 · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the forums - with out vmotion there is no way to do it with out down time - the easiest way is to power down the vm - unregister it form the host it is on - use the datastore browser on the second host andreadd it to that host and power up the vm - you should be able to do this in less than 5 minutes -

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[JESX35]

Hello,

Thanks for the information, Downtime isn't a concern as we have a downtime window when this could be done. So the unregister and re-inventory the VM is the best way?

Is the Export option ever a good idea? or is that just for cold migrating across clusters?

[Troy_Clavell]

if you have shared storage, the remove from inventory, add to inventory option will work great if you don't have vMotion. Otherwise you can use VMware Converter and do a V2V.

[weinstein5]

Export/import is agood idea you do not shared storage

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On May 27, 2009, at 5:11 PM, "JESX35" <communities-emailer@vmware.com