VMware VirtualCenter 1.0 Support DocumentationFeatures | Documentation | Knowledge Base | Discussion Forums Migrating Virtual Machines This chapter describes how to move a virtual machine from one host to another. Moving a virtual machine from one host to another is called migrating. Migrating a powered off virtual machine is a migration. Migrating a powered up virtual machine is a migration with VMotion. Migration with VMotion requires VMotion licensing and specific configuration. Refer to Installing VMware VirtualCenter for VMotion requirements. You cannot migrate a virtual machine when a virtual machine is in a suspended state. You need a Virtual Machine Administrator role assigned to both the hosts in the migration to perform the activities described in this chapter. This chapter contains the following sections:
Note: Copying a virtual machine is creating a new a virtual machine. It is not a form of migration. Refer to Copying Virtual Machines for additional information. Note: You cannot migrate a virtual machines with raw, clustered, undoable, or append mode disks. You cannot migrate with VMotion, virtual machines with raw, clustered, and non-persistent mode. You cannot migrate virtual machines with undoable disks that have REDO logs. If you have clustered disks, you can store them on separate VMFS volumes from the virtual machines prior to migrating them using VMotion. Note: Migrating occurs between hosts on the same farm. |
