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…
Citrix Netscaler VPX and vMotion Problems
A couple of my Colleague, Claus Andersen and Jørgen Rosenkvist Pedersen have had some customers that have had problem with Citrix NetScaler VPX and HPE Blade C7000 with virtual connects. The problem may also exist in other types of hardware After vMotion of the Citrix NetScaler VPX from one blade to another, one of the network ports in the destination…
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…
vMotion failed (The VM failed to resume on the destination during early power on.)
I had to do some maintenance on a host but one of the Virtual Machines failed to move away, and came with a “General System Error”: In the log file (vmware.log) of the Virtual Machine was the following lines: 2014-09-08T10:42:01.220Z| Worker#0| I120: DISKLIB-CTK : Could not open tracking file. File open returned IO error…