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Chandrashekhar
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How to do VMotion?

Hello everyone,

Is it possible to do VMotion betweeen two ESX servers without virtual center? I have trial version of VI 3 which has ESX hypervisor and virtual center client. I want to do vmotion using VI SDK 2.

Is it possible to perform VMotion using all this?

Do I need any licence for this?

Also, when I try to see licencing configuration of ESX server, I cant see anything related with VMotion. I am attaching screenshot of configuration section of ESX Server. Can anyone please explain these issues?

Both ESX servers are installed on their respective hard disks and are not booted from SAN. Both the ESX servers can see one disk of SAN. What else do I need for VMotion? Hardware of both ESX servers is same. So there is no issue of cpu compatibility check and virtual machines files are stored on ESX server hard disks only. Do I need to shift these files from ESX server to SAN disk?

Thanks in advance.

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mikefoley
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You need VirtualCenter in order to do vMotion. Sorry.

mike

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