Powered Off Storage Migration and Performance
If you are moving a powered off VM from one host to another, that cannot see the same storage, the copying of the data is send over the network. In version 7 and older this is done with the NFC protocol, but that is slow, so with vSphere 8 VMware has introduces a new protocol…
Disable/Enable vMotion on a VM
I was looking at how to disable vMotion/Storage vMotion on a VM in vCenter 6.7, after a Tweet from Michael Ryom, And I have used a script from William Lam to do this in earlier version of vCenter, and work fine, but it did not work with vCenter 6.7 Update. I have used William Lams…
Storage vMotion Error “SYMC-FULL” method is disabled
I had a customer getting this error when trying to Storage vMotion a virtual machine. This is due to Symatec BackupExec has failed to reverse this setting on the VM after backup of it. VMware has a KB on how to resolve this, but this do not have a solution for vCenter Server Appliance 6.0…