Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question I want to know what is the difference between hosts created with vmotion enabled and normal one (Apart from live … Read more
It’s difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center. Closed 9 years ago. I am not understanding the backing up of … Read more
Nomarlly, virtual machine get time from host, but when vsphere using VMotion to change virtual machine to new host. What’s time of virtual machine when it in new host ? Old host time ? new host time ? or time sync from another source ? . Answer When the migration is complete, assuming vmware tools … Read more
I wrote this quick Powershell script where it queues vMotion of VMs and runs only 4 vMotion tasks at a time. I thought this might help someone, so you are free to modify the code as per your like. We were moving VMs to 2 different datastore for a DR exercise overnight. I have placed … Read more
Is it possible to enforce EVC/vMotion compatibility on a single VM in a (non-EVC) vSphere 6 cluster? I have an old Nehalem based host which I would like to use as a backup host in case I need to restart my main Haswell based machine without shutting down my AD. But on the other hand, … Read more
I’ve moved ‘typical’ virtual machines between hosts with VMware VMotion and not experienced any network related issues with clients accessing those vm’s. Does anyone have comments about running a VM serving as a router(Vyatta, linux, BSD, etc) and any effects putting such a vm through a VMotion? I’m concerned the more constant network stream such … Read more
If I have two machines both 3rd Generation AMD Opteron, one Shanghai & one Istanbul and I can vMotion between them. Does it buy me anything to enable EVC at the 3rd Generation AMD level? Will I lose any CPU features? My thoughts are, I can enable EVC 3rd Generation with running VMs and I … Read more
I’m running VMWare and have an ESX host that is running at 100% CPU. I also have two Exchange 2010 CAS servers that are running at 100% CPU, Here are some additiona observations: The sum of the Processes tab is only a fraction of the total CPU. It appears kernel time is not included when … Read more
I am currently tasked with evaluating VSphere and VCenter server. I read about the VMotion feature: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-VMotion-DS-EN.pdf This could come in very handy for us. We are always migrating VM’s in our current infra. My question is, how well do these “no downtime” migrations work when it comes to databases such as served with MySQL? … Read more
We have a couple of Linux Red Hat virtual machines running on top of the VMware ESXi cluster. We aren’t sure is vMotion configured or not. Is it possible to identify if vMotion is configured or activated, from within the guest Linux Red Hat OS itself? Answer No, I don’t think live migration settings are … Read more
