where is dmotion

[hunter05]

I want to move some guests form my esx2.5 to 3.0.1. I have read that dmotion is th best choice, but I cant figure out how to access it. I am in my VI client, but I dont see anything about dmotion

[biekee]

Actually it is under "migrate to new host".

As soon as you have made your old vmfs2 luns available to the new esx 3 server(s) and have created a new vmfs3 lun, which is of course available only to your esx 3 server(s) this migration is a vmotion from your 2.5 servers to your new esx3 server(s). The this vmotion is also called dmotion, because it dynamically moves your 2.5 vm/s from vmfs2 datastores to your new vmfs3 datastore.

See if that helps,

bk

[sbeaver]

It is the vmotion command it is just called Dmotion because it moves the ESX2 VM to an ESX3 LUN

[hunter05]

Thanks. So if my old esx server is a standalone server and my new server is a blade server on the SAN the dmotion cant be accomplished? I read somewhere that both ESX server have to be on the same SAN

[admin]

Yep that's correct, same requirements as vMotion, so shared storage is needed.