VM migration between ESXi on separate network

[Sachchidanand]

I have three ESXi node running remotely on three different ISP's network. I can manage all three hosts via a vCenter which is available in my network. The only network I have remotely is the management network of ESXi for infrastructure.

Now I want to migrate VMs between the ESXi nodes. What will be the best way to do this?

Regards,

Sachchidanand

[maksym007]

To set up IP's for vMotion or add vMOtion option to the management network in case you are limited in network adapters. 

[BivasM]

first of all esxi should be able reach each other on port 443 . a dedicated vmotion vmkernel should be assigned with ip addresses (a separated vswitch if possible). since they are under same vcenter it should work in terms of network. Next issue is storage. a shared datastore in between the hosts would obviously be better. 

[Sachchidanand · Accepted solution]

Just added vMotion option to the vmkernel ports and try to relocate VM from one host to another host (compute as well as storage), but getting the following error:

Task Name - Relocate virtual machine

Status - An error occurred while communicating with the remote host.

After applying the following KB, I am able to solve the issue.

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/50108054

Regards,

Sachchidanand