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  • 1.  Storage vmotion cross site

    Posted Aug 19, 2010 09:42 PM

    Is it possible to vmotion storage cross site? Or does it have to be on the same host?



  • 2.  RE: Storage vmotion cross site

    Posted Aug 19, 2010 10:30 PM

    Storage Vmotion (as well as offline migration) is done by an ESX(i) host. Therefore the hosts needs to have access to both, the source and the destination storage.

    André



  • 3.  RE: Storage vmotion cross site

    Posted Aug 19, 2010 10:51 PM

    So I guess it can't be done using DRS.



  • 4.  RE: Storage vmotion cross site

    Posted Aug 19, 2010 10:54 PM

    No, DRS has nothing to do with storage. DRS is used to place VM workloads on hosts and to VMotion them if neccessary.

    André



  • 5.  RE: Storage vmotion cross site

    Posted Aug 20, 2010 03:25 AM

    As Andre mentioned:

    Your source or destination host needs to have access to both the source and destination data store. Both the hosts also need to be managed by the same vCenter server.

    If you have that, you can then do a Storage vMotion between two data stores across different sites, followed by vMotion to move your workload to a different site.

    However, if the distance between sites is too long or if the destination data store is on a very slow storage, then some workloads may not be successfully migrated.