I'm having issues with migrating a powered off VM that has a RDM virtual disk to another datastore, is this possible? or am i pretty much up the creek?
migration get's to 99% complete, plenty of space for the new file in the data store, thick/thin/same all 3 fail same way.
Relocate virtual machine
VMware Data Recovery
Incompatible device
backing specified for
device '0'.
Cannot relocate virtual machine 'VMware Data
Recovery' in KCUC-COLO
error
Some Additional Information:
The RDM is mapped in physical mode, and the host is a member of a cluster.
More info round 2:
I've migrated all other VM's off this host, removed it from the cluster. i'm still not able ot change from Physical to Vitrual mode for the RDM.
i'm trying a migration now to see if taking it out of a cluster corrects the issue.
If the VM is powered off , you could clone the VM to the destination datastore and then power on the cloned VM .
Do all the Hosts have access to the LUN in question?