Tim,
There are environments far larger than what you have that used CM
w/CloudStack for VmWare storage migration. Are you moving to datastores
within the cluster or across?
Right now, ACS supports within cluster migration but not cross cluster.
There was some work done and i believe code committed to address the
cross cluster migration, but it wont be in ACS 4.5 release. If you are
citrix customer, reach out to them and they will provide more details as
to when it will be available.
cloudmonkey is by far simpler than using vmware api or even their
windows powershell.
You can move the volumes outside of cloudstack, however, you will have
to manage db and update volumes table with location of new datastore.
Thats a pain in my opinion and can be automated - but more work that it
needs to be.
Regards,
ilya
On 4/16/15 8:03 AM, Timothy Lothering wrote:
Hi,
I was just wondering whether it is possible/supported to use the
storage migration features/functionality directly in VMware without
using CloudStack to first disconnect the data disks, move the VM +
Root Disk, then move the data disk and re-attach?
Seeing as ACS uses VMware API’s would it not just do a VM check (as it
does) and discovers that the VM is not located in specific storage
anymore?
The reason I ask is that I have ~40TB of VM data which needs to move,
and the ACS steps is long and tedious. I have considered using CM to
do this, but am not 100% familiar with the product yet.
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