vmotion vm between 2 hosts with std switch and vds

[Anatoliy Kopylov]

Good day.

I got 2 hosts (5.5 and 5.0) uinder signle vCenter and I need to move all the vms from the second one (5.0) to the first one (5.5). ESXi 5.5 is in the distributed vswitch so I decide to delete single vmnic from vds and add it to the standard switch. This host has 4 vmk interfaces now - 3 in the vds (single management (10.12.0.41) and 2 for vmotion, but now the flag "use it for vmotion" is disabled) and single vmk (vmk3) in standard vswitch. vmk3 is falgged for vmotion only, its address is 10.12.0.100. Host 5.0 is located in another network, got single vmk0 (192.168.107.94) and it is flagged for management traffic and vmotion. Ok now, I set the correct rules on my router but vmotion ifaces cant see each other cause of routing table on ESXi 5.5:

default      0.0.0.0        10.12.0.1  vmk0       MANUAL

10.12.0.0    255.255.255.0  0.0.0.0    vmk0       MANUAL

10.30.1.0  255.255.255.0  0.0.0.0    vmk1       MANUAL

and if I add route it adds via vmk0, so vmk3 on ESXi 5.5 still doesnt know about the route. Furthermore if I "view routing table" of this vmk in the vSphere client - I got an empty list. How can I add route for specific vmkernel interface?

P.S. add ESXi 5.0 to vds is no option for me.

[Anatoliy Kopylov]

Wow, I guess my problem is solved. Tbh there was no problem at all. I knew that you could not migrate vm from standard port group of one host to distributed port group of another host, BUT it seems that I can use vmotion vmkernel interface that located in distributed port group on one host and vmotion vmk in standard port group on another host, so I just deleted the vmk3 and set vmk0 to be used for vmotion traffic too.