vmotion - vm migration from command line?

[Rajmohan]

hello all,

Can any one help me, how to do a vmotion from ESX console (migrating a vm form ESX console).Iam using ESX 3.0.1

[aleph0]

as far I know there is no way of vmotioning from command line.

cheers

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[weinstein5]

I agree with aleph - vmotion is a virtual cneter function -

[Mark_Brophy]

You can do it with Powershell and the VI toolkit. It's free and works very well.

[aleph0]

agree: powershell will work but the question is about vmotioning with command line inside COS.

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[Erik_Zandboer]

Hi,

I have seen some hints about how to go about it. The secret appears to lie in vimsh (doesn't it always). Somewhere in the vimsh command line you should request some kind of handle (which is a number), after which you can perform a vmotion by vimsh-ing directly between two hosts. According to this, it should be possible to vmotion without virtualcenter. I have never seen it work, and never took the time to figure it out..

EDIT: After looking through vimsh, I believe it was something related to vmish/vmsvc/acquiremksticket in order to get the "handle" described above. This ticket is needed when issuing the vmotion from vimsh (but where to do that??)

[aleph0]

Yep,

look here

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[jose_maria_gonz]

Hi team

I once used perl and SDK( MigrateVM.pl was include) in ESX 2.5 to script it although I guest ESX 2.5 is now out of the equation.

e.j: perl.exe MigrateVM.pl https://vmware-mgment:8443 Administrator passowerd /vcenter/Rack1/Database/test vmware-esx1

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[Rajmohan]

thanks for every one. i understand that no direct way to do migration of Vm from esx console.