Copy virtual machine to another host?

[EkilErif]

Simple question, is it possible to copy a Virtual Machine from 1 ESX host to another ESX host without shutting the virtual machine down?

[oreeh · Accepted solution]

This is called vMotion and requires VC and a shared storage.

[esiebert7625]

Vmotion is the only way to move a running VM from one host to another. You can make a copy of a VM (clone) on another ESX host by using snapshots or VMware Converter.

http://vmware-land.com/Vmware_Tips.html#VM14

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[admin]

More details on the requirements for Vmotion here:

http://www.vmware.com/support/vc13/doc/c2vmotionreqs12.html

[EkilErif]

Thanks guys,

Basically what I am going to do is turn it off and make a clone of the machine because the one is going to be on another ESX host in a suspended state and if the first host fails I will simply unsuspend the second.

Have started a project to implement a SAN however until this is done I dont have shared storage and as such cant use features like vmotion, ha, etc.

Thanks again

Rt