<div dir="ltr">Daniel,<br><br><div>Could you give a little more detail about your experience with this process? The confusion you faced is likely the same confusion many of us would face.</div><div><br></div><div>Which document(s) did you follow? Which files did you copy? What were the high level steps? etc.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:02 PM Daniel Pagan <<a href="mailto:dpagan@fidelus.com">dpagan@fidelus.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks Dave. I also came across these details, but it too states shared storage:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">“A Virtual Machine (VM) file on network/shared storage can be booted on any physical server hosting ESXi that has access to that network shared
storage.”</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">But perhaps
<i>my</i> confusion was vMotion vs cold migration. My original thought was using Enhanced vMotion since the objective was to bring the VM config and disk to another host and unshared datastore.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.vladan.fr/vmware-enhanced-vmotion/" target="_blank">http://www.vladan.fr/vmware-enhanced-vmotion/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2118-Enhanced-vMotion-with-vSphere-5.1.html" target="_blank">http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2118-Enhanced-vMotion-with-vSphere-5.1.html</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I wasn’t sure if this was Cisco supported since all mention of vMotion migrations in the VMware requirements document state shared storage, but it seems this
doesn’t quite fit the process of vMotion (Enhanced or not) since the virtual machine is powered off anyway. This would certainly fall under the category of cold migration, which is definitely Cisco supported.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Some confusion on my part between the two migration methods but all is clear.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">- Dan<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Dave Goodwin [mailto:<a href="mailto:dave.goodwin@december.net" target="_blank">dave.goodwin@december.net</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 10, 2015 8:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Daniel Pagan<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Ryan Huff; <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a></span></p></div></div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] vMotion w/o Shared Storage<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Keep in mind that moving a VM from one host to another (whether the VM's storage is being moved or not) is not considered a vMotion. That is why you can do it even without enabling any NICs
on the host for the vMotion feature. Therefore, the VMWare feature you'd want to look for in the matrix is probably "Restart Virtual Machine on Different ESXi Host" and not vMotion.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><a href="http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMware_Requirements" target="_blank">http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMware_Requirements</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Daniel Pagan <<a href="mailto:dpagan@fidelus.com" target="_blank">dpagan@fidelus.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#404040">Thanks - that’s what I figured and just tested with no issues. Seems the non-shared storage caveat
for vMotion is a non-issue in ESXi 5.1 and higher. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#404040"><a href="http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc%2FGUID-9F1D4A3B-3392-46A3-8720-73CBFA000A3C.html" target="_blank">http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc%2FGUID-9F1D4A3B-3392-46A3-8720-73CBFA000A3C.html</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#404040">I was also concerned of partition alignment but I guess that would be a non-issue as well since the
vmdk is already provisioned. The move to the stand-alone datastore is nearing completion so I’ll double check the start block size once it’s done just to be sure!</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#404040">- Dan</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Ryan Huff [mailto:<a href="mailto:ryanhuff@outlook.com" target="_blank">ryanhuff@outlook.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 10, 2015 5:08 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] vMotion w/o Shared Storage</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>Shutdown, yes. Running, no.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Ryan<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Quick question…<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">vMotion of a shut down UCM between two hosts without shared storage using vCenter. Is this supported? The virtualization document for UC platforms says vMotion is supported on shared
storage, so I figured to ask. Is this migration method supported? <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Dan<u></u><u></u></p>
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