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VMotion Migrations and MySQL Databases

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. …
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Trouble enabling vMotion

Just added a second host to my ESXi 5.5 datacenter. The new host now has vMotion enabled, after enabling it in the vmkernel port group. Went back to the original host. Enabled vMotion in the vmkernel as well. But for the original host, the summary…
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EMC ESRS stops working when it is VMotioned

EMC is on site and told me: The ESRS SAN monitoring solution will cease to function if that host is VMotioned In case anyone doesn't know, the ESRS is a dial home solution that works over IP. An EMC SecureID is required to add or modify the list…
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VMware version required for shared-nothing vMotion

I'm wondering which is the minimal version I would need regarding these points : 1. Have 2 ESXi hosts, datastore located directly in the server (not on a SAN) 2. Would like to be able to use vMotion to transfer VMs to the 2nd server So my questions…
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Using Perfmon counters only, how can I determine host CPU contention / overload?

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. …
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Loss of feature set with VMware EVC

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…
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Blade communication within virtual connect domain without leaving enclosure

I have a HP C3000 blade enclosure, some blades and a flex-10 interconnect module, running ESXi 4.1. I'd like to have networking between the blades, and was wondering if the interconnect module can effectively act as a "virtual switch". Virtual…
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Can I vMotion between Standard and enterprise hosts?

I plan on having one Enterprise host, and a few Standard licensed hosts. Will I be able to vmotion between these 2 types of servers? I know that the memory pool will be counted separately, but can't find any information on vmotion restrictions.
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Storage vMotion fails with error 0xbad0060 (Necessary module isn't loaded)

We ran into the following problem: we added a new LUN to our small SAN when we upgraded from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.0. We wanted to move a number of VMs from one LUN to the other using storage vMotion. One of the reason for that was to make sure the VMs…
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VMware vsphere essentials plus network cabling

I'm not sure how many NICs I need to use to have vmotion support with my SAN. See the link for a picture, it's laughably crude. Sketch
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What is DRS vMotion impact on VM and cluster?

We have a 4 host ESXi 6.5 cluster with DRS fully automated. When checking the history, we see a specific (big) VM (6 CPUs, 64 GB mem) having roughly 10 vMotions by DRS per day. Someone from the team claims we should make DRS less aggressive and…
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Queue VMware Virtual Machine vMotion using powercli

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…
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Enforce EVC for specific VM on vSphere 6?

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…
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Connection Reliability of Router VM during VMotion

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…
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Keeping a vmdk's path on vmotion

Situation's a bit complicated so I hope I can make sense here. I have an OpenShift cluster installed on vSphere (managers and workers). It has Elastic configured to gather logs. Elastic has a Persistent Volume attached, and OpenShift is configured…
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