VMotion error

[Rohail2004]

I am trying to VMotion between datacenters but getting this error:

"the input arguments had entities that did not belong to the same datacenter"

ESX 3.5, VC 2.5 update 3.

[azn2kew · Accepted solution]

Your problem is that VMotion only works within a cluster itself which is enable by HA, VMotion and DRS cluster. In order to be VMotion, you must have shared resource storage and doesn't have any shapshot or mount devices on floppy or CD/ROM drives. Or your CPU family must be compatible. If you're having CPU issue, you can hide CPUID NX flag or use EVC to enable it from the cluster and must have VMs power off to enable EVC. You cannot VMotion a virtual machine from one data center to another.

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Stefan Nguyen

VMware vExpert 2009

iGeek Systems Inc.

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

[Troy_Clavell]

you can't vmotion accross datacenters. You would have to do a cold migration

[azn2kew]

A workaround to this migration is neither disconnect your host that has VMs running and reconnect to other datacenter/cluster. Or you can remove virtual machine from inventory and "add to inventory" again by browsing to vmx file and point to destination datacenter you wish. Make sure you set the networking on the virtual machine to the right port groups. You might need to use Storage VMotion to move VMs and disk files around.

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Regards,

Stefan Nguyen

VMware vExpert 2009

iGeek Systems Inc.

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant