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nanair01
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VMOTION between VLANs

Can I do the VMOTION between two VLAN's say ID 101 and ID 102?

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Rubeck
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Yes... It would fail if no prober routing is in place.

Check vmkernel default gateways (esxcfg-route) and by using vmkping...

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HannaL
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Are you talking about the VMotion network or the VM's using different vlan ids?

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002383

this is a good troubleshooting guide, if vmotion fails at 10% that is when it first starts to talk on the VMotion network:

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003734

Hope that helps

Hanna

Hope that helps, Hanna --- BSCS, VCP2, VCP VI3, VCP vSphere, VCP 5 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/vmware-support-ibm
nanair01
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If the VMOTION network on two hosts are on diff VLAN's, can I do VMOTION between them? I hope this is quite clear now. I will go through the links which you had posted. Thank you!

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Rubeck
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If these VLANs have L3 access to each other, then yes.... (verify that the L3 device routing your traffic can do it at Gbit speed)

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nanair01
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So that means, these are still in two diff networks and if no proper routing is in place, VMOTION fails right?

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Yes... It would fail if no prober routing is in place.

Check vmkernel default gateways (esxcfg-route) and by using vmkping...

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nanair01
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Thank you, that solves the puzzle!

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Rubeck
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No problem... Smiley Wink

Happy to help out..

/Rubz

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