VMotion with service console command

[marcgijsman]

Hi All,

Is it possible to vmotion (hot migration) a virtual machine from the service console to a different esx host?

Marc

[espi3030]

I don't believe so, since vmotion is a Virtual Infrastructure Client feature.

[weinstein5]

You can enable your ESX host for vmotion form the command line but I believe it needs to be intiated form VC since VC is what manages the process -

[Texiwill]

Hello,

You would need to write a VI Perl Toolkit script to talk to VC in order to initiate a vMotion.....

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

[admin]

You would need to write a VI Perl Toolkit script to talk to VC in order to initiate a vMotion.....

Another alternative is to use VMware's PowerShell bindings. Using these, VMotion is as simple as get-vm <your vm> | move-vm -destination (get-vmhost desthost).

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Yes that would work as well from outside the Service Console. Since Powershell is not part of the SC (until there is a Linux version), it does not quite answer the question.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

====

Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization