I received a bunch of questions around storage masking over the last couple of weeks. One of them was around VMware’s best practice to mask LUNs on a per cluster basis. The best practice has been around for years and basically is there to reduce conflicts. More hosts accessing the same LUNs means more overhead, [...]
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SVMotion and disk space
November 19th, 2008
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I received this question a couple of times and there’s no real definitive answer written anywhere…
“Does storage vmotion require additional disk space on the source volume?”
The answer is: Yes it does. Storage VMotion uses the snapshot technology to release the lock on the source disk. This snapshot is placed on the source volume. So in [...]
Storage VMotion Fails With Error Message “Failed to unstun VM after disk reparent”
February 13th, 2008
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VMware justed added a new KB article about problems with Storage VMotion script:
Storage VMotion can fail for a virtual machine with the error message:
Failed to unstun VM after disk reparent.
The virtual machine is partially migrated and powered off. Generally, the virtual machine cannot be powered on again.
This issue affects:
Virtual machines converted in-place (not deployed [...]
Using vmpmotion.pl on Windows RCLI
January 11th, 2008
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When using vmpmotion.pl on Windows with the RCLI installed you will need to set some extra environment variables before the script will work. First besure that the Perl filetype is correctly setup.
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