Storage vMotion vCLS VMs

[pamiller21]

I have built a little script to tag and take care of these little vCLS VMs whenever they appear, but I can't get them to storage vMotion from off my ISO repo to my production iSCSI SAN because when you storage vMotion via the webui it ask for a confirmation and when I run this portion of the script it says the following:

Line 5 | Move-VM -VM $VM -Datastore $RDCDatastoreCluster
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| 5/28/2021 10:59:48 PM Move-VM A specified parameter was not correct: StoragePlacementSpec.vm
Move-VM:

Is there anyway around this?

[LucD]

The same error was also reported in Duncan's VMware vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) considerations, questions and answers post.

Same advise here, open an SR.

[rkabelich]

For all, playing around the same issue:

vMotion both, Storage and Compute, should migrate the vCLS VMs to different Datastores.

[singhrobin]

It better you select "Allowed Datastore" which will be use to auto deploy vCLS VMs.

To configure this, go to:
vsphere Cluster -> Configure  -> vSphere Cluster Service -> Datastores -> Click "Add" and select preferred Datastore.

Thanks,
Robin Singh

[depping]

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@singhrobin wrote:

It better you select "Allowed Datastore" which will be use to auto deploy vCLS VMs.

To configure this, go to:
vsphere Cluster -> Configure  -> vSphere Cluster Service -> Datastores -> Click "Add" and select preferred Datastore.

Thanks,
Robin Singh

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that feature is not available in the current release Robin? i think you are talking about a feature which may get released in the future 🙂

[chris_olsen]

Hello,

That option looks like exactly what I'm needing to do (we're moving off an old storage cluster onto a new one and need to storage vMotion the vCLS VMDKs over to another datastore).  That said, like the previous respondent noted, I don't see that option in the vSphere Cluster configuration tab.  Running vSphere 7.0u2c

Thanks!

Chris

[depping]

It doesn't exist, it is scheduled for the next release 🙂

[chris_olsen]

Ah so - thanks.  I saw that in your earlier response and couldn't tell if it was wishful thinking or a prediction.  We're about to roll out 7.0U2d due to that last exploit - do you know if it got bundled into that?

Thanks again,

Chris

[depping]

No it is not, i am talking about a proper release, not a patch release 🙂

[cdsharp]

I just installed the patch and the function is there. I have verified it works. I was able to migrate the vCLS vms.

[rkabelich]

Yes, since VCSA 7.0.3.0 (18700403) the option is available. 

[depping]

https://www.yellow-bricks.com/2021/09/28/vsphere-7-0-u3-contains-two-great-vcls-enhancements/