Can I specify specific hosts in an ESX 3.5 cluster a VM can vmotion to?

[gregdesario]

I am trying to limit where a VM can be vmotioned to in an ESX cluster. Microsoft SQL license is apparently changing for SQL on VMs, if there are 10 2 proc hosts in the cluster, you have to get each SQL instance licensed for 20 procs. I am trying to figure out if a VM with SQL can be configured to only vmotion to specific hosts. I know I can disable vmotion for the VM in DRS settings, but that does not limit someone from manually vmotioning it to another host. Any ideas?

[AntonVZhbankov]

Create some tiny vmdk (10MB) on ESX local storage and connect to VM. It would prevent VM from VMotion.

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[azn2kew]

Anton, that's a great dirty tip but it works perfect in this case, since VMotion can't move any disk that's locally or you can try mount to .iso image to CD/rom connected that might do it too.

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[weinstein5]

I am sorry that is not possible - but no worries you actually have the change in microsoft licensing backwards that used to be the policy if you had a clust of 10 x 2 cpu esx servers you would need to license for 20 cpus even you were only running a single vcpu vm sql - now you license to the number of vcpus in the vm - check out http://www.vmware.com/solutions/whitepapers/new_msoft_policies.html

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