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How do I perform a storage migration?

Hi all,

I'm trying to ensure that all my volumes are running on the best backend and i'm looking into using Storage VMotion but I can not find anything regarding how to perform one. Could someone point me in a direction of how to do this? Thanks in advance!

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Ryan_Witschger
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There are two ways to do this:

First, VMWare did not include this in their UI. You have to acquire the VMWare CLI (Command Line Interface) which is bascially justa a set of perl scripts that allow you to mimic much of the functionality of the graphical client. Once installed you'll have a script called svmotion.pl. Run it and it gives you usage information. If you want a quick one off migration run "svmotion.pl --interactive" and it give you a quick wizard.

Second, and I am yet to do this, the community has developed a plugin for the Console available here:

Thanks,

Ryan Witschger

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Ryan_Witschger
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There are two ways to do this:

First, VMWare did not include this in their UI. You have to acquire the VMWare CLI (Command Line Interface) which is bascially justa a set of perl scripts that allow you to mimic much of the functionality of the graphical client. Once installed you'll have a script called svmotion.pl. Run it and it gives you usage information. If you want a quick one off migration run "svmotion.pl --interactive" and it give you a quick wizard.

Second, and I am yet to do this, the community has developed a plugin for the Console available here:

Thanks,

Ryan Witschger

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dominic7
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I also wrote a (perl) script to invoke svmotion, which also detects if you're going to run into the thin provisioning bug

http://vmprofessional.com/index.php?content=vmpmotion

Also ( in my experience ), it works in large enviornments well where the plugin does not.