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IBM-Deamon
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‎04-03-2008 06:22 AM

RCLI - svmotion

Hey VMbuddys Smiley Wink

I need help with the follow. I have to SVMOTION 70 server from a Dell Cluster to a IBM Cluster. I don't want to go and do every single server on its own with svmotion --interactive command. Is there a script that I can create to move all the data and everything for me?

Much Appreciated.

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Milton21
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‎04-03-2008 06:30 AM

Are you running the RCLI on windows?

You could write a batch file to svmotion.

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IBM-Deamon
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‎04-03-2008 06:36 AM

Hey Milton21

We are running the RCLI client as a VM on ESX it self.

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Milton21
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‎04-03-2008 08:11 AM

You could install the RCLI to your system then use batch files. You will have to use the noninteractive mode however. You can get away with telling 3 to SVmotion at once as long as the systems are not over 100GB. Watch out for time outs with the svmotion if doing very large VM's over 1 TB. If a time out occurs then the Dmotion snapshot will have to be manually removed. I have never used the VM for RCLI so I am unsure how to set an automated process with that. I also would not recommend having the svmotion process be a fire and forget. Even if you automate the process you will want to babysit it.

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‎04-03-2008 09:22 AM

Another possible option is to use the unsupported Virtual Center plugin for SVMotion here:

http://www.lostcreations.com/code/wiki/vmware/viplugins/svmotion

You will be able to select as many VMs to SVMotion as you'd like.

Chris

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