sVMotion of a vCenter server

[iinfi]

my vcenter is installed on a VM.

i want to migrate the vCenter to a different storage LUN

is it possible to achieve this? the vCenter from where I am initiating this sVMotion is the VM which i am moving.

it failed a couple of times for me. was just wondering if there are any dependecies anywhere!

[sparrowangelste · Accepted solution]

there shouldnt be a reason why it doesnt move over just because its a vcenter server.

maybe there are other reasons.

do you get any errors that show up?

post up your logs.

edit:

just tried it on my own server

works fine.

its something else on your end.

http://sparrowangelstechnology.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-storage-vmotion-svmotion-your.html

[kooltechies]

Should work fine , are you getting any errors when you are trying to do svmotion. Am sure all the svmotion requirements are met in your infra.

[iinfi]

thank you both of you for your replies .. thanks for the quick POC ... you rock man ...

i realised later that i was running a heavy test workload on the storage which was generating more than 4000 IOPS .... that cause a lot of bottleneck on the storage and eventually the sVMotion to probably timeout and hang.

i stopped the workload and the sVMotion completed successfully.