Storage VMotion: Separating drives on multiple Datastores.

[hardingp]

Scenario:

10 virtuals with 2 'Hard Disks' (C and D Drives)

2 new SAN Datastores.

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I need to storage VMotion all the C-Drives to one Datastore and all the D-Drives to the other datastore..

So basically the virtual 'Boink' will have its C-Drive on a datastore backed up by RAID-5 and it's D-Drive on a datastore backed up by RAID-10

Doable in Vcenter? Or is there a way to manually edit the vmx file to have the drives point to another LUN

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

from the RCLI type:

svmotion --interactive

There will be an option to do seperate disks.

[atbnet]

You want this plugin for VC. svmotion, its really good, ive used it a few times.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vip-svmotion/

Andy, VMware Certified Professional (VCP),

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[RParker]

You want this plugin for VC. svmotion, its really good, ive used it a few times.

Andy, VMware Certified Professional (VCP),

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I would have to say this tool makes things a great deal easier, than RCLI. This is 2008, why are we still typing commands?

[Troy_Clavell]

I would have to say this tool makes things a great deal easier, than RCLI. This is 2008, why are we still typing commands?

It makes us WinTel guys broaden our horizons...

[Texiwill]

Hello,

If you use the latest VIC there is a 'Migrate Storage' menu item for each VM, that will bring up a graphical interface that will let you move the VMDKs to whatever storage you desire.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

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[admin]

I'm pretty sure you must have the 3rd party plugin installed on your client. I don't think (I could be wrong) we have the "migrate storage" integrated into the current version of VI client yet.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

You know, I do have a third party plugin, specifically Andrew Kutz's SVMotion plugin. Works great. Sorry about the confusion.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

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Blue Gears Blogs - http://www.itworld.com/ and http://www.networkworld.com/community/haletky

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

[admin]

hehe that's the one I'm using too and I often get caught off guard by it as well.