VMview Desktop Migration

[wkdixon]

We just started using VMview and now are migrating LUNs from one system to another. Any hints on moving linked clones and replicas around? Like I said we just started using them so rebuilding isn't a big deal but once up and running it would be nice to know how to migrate should we need to again.

Thanks

[TomHowarth]

Just add your extra LUNs in and issue a rebalance command, it will then move Linked clones from LUN to LUN to balance out usage.

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[wkdixon]

That's fine for adding but we are actually migrating so I need to move completely off of a LUN to the new LUNs. I did an svmotion to the new LUNs of the current desktops and they appear to be working fine, I then re-snapped my parent VMs and updated/recomposed my pools to a new replica snapshot and pointed to the new LUNs and the new provisioning seems to be working. The one issue I have is that there appears to be some replicas left behind and I would like to clean them up before we remove the LUN. I haven't found a good paper on managing replicas that would really be helpful.

[cdadswell]

We are currently in the process of doing the exact same thing. Is there going to be any papers written to demonstrate the best approach to this?

[TomHowarth]

The replicas can be safely removed, once they are removed from the ESX servers View will cease to know about them

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