Hi group.
Official svomtion requirements:
Virtual machines with snapshots cannot be migrated
Virtual machine disks must be in persistent mode or be RDM’s
The host on which the virtual machine is running must have sufficient resources to support two instances of the virtual machine running concurrently for a brief time.
Only one migration can occur per datastore at any one time
The host on which the virtual machine is running must have access to both the source and target datastores.
VMotion must be setup and licenced the host
You can’t move a VM with NPIV enabled
You can’t VMotion whilst performing a Storage VMotion
If you have a VM with more than one VMDK stored on different VMFS volumes – and you move it without using the “—disks” option – it will take all the VMDKs and put them in a single VMFS volume
But what about VMware Tools? I have not found any document with any information regarding svmotion and Vmware Tools. Must VMware Tools up to day in order to use svmotion? Cab Tools be out of date, not installed or not running?
Thanks!
Hello,
No VMware Tools is not required for vMotion or SVMotion.
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.
CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354
As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization
I would say no since vmware tools is not required for vmotion -
Hello,
No VMware Tools is not required for vMotion or SVMotion.
Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator
====
Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.
CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354
As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization