Storage Vmotion error

[oscarmaimo]

Hello Im tring to test Storage Vmotion from my RCLI an I get this error:

"SOAP request error - possibly a protocol issue:"

Any idea?

Greetings

Oscar

[Jasemccarty]

What syntax are you using?

It should read like this:

svmotion --datacenter=<DC Name> --url=https://<FQDN of VCMS>/sdk --username=<Username on VCMS> --password=<Password> --vm={<Source datastore>} <Path to VMX file of VM>:<Destination datastore>

an example would be:

svmotion --datacenter=DC --url=https://vcenter/sdk --username=user --password=pass --vm= VMONE/VMONE.vmx:SAN2

just make sure to replace the } and { with ] and [ as the forum doesn't like those tags...

Hope that helps

Jase McCarty

http://www.jasemccarty.com

Co-Author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center

(ISBN:1420070274) from Auerbach

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[oscarmaimo]

Thanks for quick replay:

I solve that error but i got another error:

Datastore path vTestSO vTest/vTest.vmx is not in the correct format.

My question is wich is the correct format. I have tried a lot of ways but no one functions.

Greetings

Oscar

[Jasemccarty]

Would this VM happen to be a VM from a ESX 2.5 installation that was never upgraded?

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http://www.jasemccarty.com

Co-Author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center

(ISBN:1420070274) from Auerbach

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[dnwhittaker]

If you can, I would suggest using the SVmotion plug-in. It's a plug-in to VC 2.5 and is available on VMware's web-site. We use it at where I work and have been very pleased with it.

[oscarmaimo]

Thanks, I solved the problem. it was a mistake typing.

I installed the pluging for svmotion, the server and the client. After that I loged in to my vcenter in a remote desktop connection I enabled the pluginand it works, but (always there is a "but") when I loged to my vcenter from my VI Client I don'see my plugin installed in plugin menu, so i don't have the option to do svmotion in graphical mode from my VI Client.

Any idea about this??

Greetings

Oscar

[dnwhittaker · Accepted solution]

l believe you need to install and configure the plug-in in your local VI client too.

[oscarmaimo]

Yes i did it and it worked but when a tried to do svmotion in GUI I got this error:

"The requested Storage VMotion would move a virtual machine's disks without assigning the virtual machine a new home, but such a move is not supported on the source host 'myESX.mydomain'"

However the svmotion command works.

Another point. When i moved a vitual machine the old folders remains there

Greetins

Oscar

[Rammi]

i would like to know if we can do storage vmotion across datacenters