SVmotion

[nmedard]

Hello,

I have to SVmotion all VM on my productions environment from shared storage to local storage on the host.

There are Windows server 2008 R2, 2012, microsoft exchange, linux, centOS, etc.

I wanted to know what are the risk of the SVMotion.

Additional Info:

Shared storage : FreeNas 9.3 Stable

Host : Dell PowerEdge R710 and R610. 

DS presented from the Freenas : VMFS5

DS on presented from host VMFS5.

That is, both source and destination are VMFS5 Datastore

[a_p_]

There shouldn't be any issues with this. Only make sure that the host's RAID controller operates in write-back mode (the default with battery-backed write cache), otherwise you may experience very slow performance.

André

[nmedard]

Thank you André.

One of my VM is an Exchange with 12 vDisk. 

What are your advise on this?

Regards

Nicolas

[a_p_]

Go for it, but consider to do it during non-peak hours, and - just in case something goes wrong - after a full backup.

Storage vMotion is a "binary" transaction. It either succeeds, or it doesn't, in which case the VM will continue to run on the "old" storage.

André

[nmedard]

Thx for your advice André. 

Nicolas