Storage Motion via plugin in VC2.5

[pearlyshells]

We have an ESX 3.5 host that was setup with 6 vDisks , each located on separate FC LUN locations. We recently had to perform maintenance on the SAN and I storage motioned the disks to temporary locations. After the maintenance was done, I attempted to perform storage motion again and place the individual vDisks back into their previous locations. I am not able to do it. Seems storage motion wants to keep all the disks together on the same LUN. How do I solve this?

[krowczynski]

Have you used this tool?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vip-svmotion/#

MCP, VCP

[pearlyshells]

yes. that is the plugin I'm using

[rubensluque]

Hi,

You can run svmotion in interactive mode. During the process you will be asked to choose if you want to move all disks or only one disk.

the sintax is: svmotion.pl --interactive

rgds

[Matt_B1]

I used that plugin a few months back. It works well when you can get it to think the storage vmotion has enough free space. The math it uses was not correct more than 50% of the time so it would not allow a storage vmotion that would work. In the end, I used the perl script from the RCLI in interactive mode and it works fine everytime.

[pearlyshells]

I tried svmotion --interactive and I got the same results.

[Scissor]

Anything interesting in your ESX logs ( /var/log/vmkernel and /var/log/vmkwarning ) ?