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Sajeesh20111014
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how to vmotion a VM which has a snapshot on it

how to vmotion a VM which has a snapshot on it

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beckham007fifa

you must be getting warning while migrating it..

Regards, ABFS
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beckham007fifa

A powered-on virtual machine can be migrated to a different ESX host. In this case, all snapshots are retained when the virtual machine is vMotioned. However, the files comprising the virtual machine are not relocated. The virtual machine is unregistered from the source host and is registered to the destination host.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=103555...

but you can't storage vmotion them..

Regards, ABFS
rickardnobel
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Saji wrote:

how to vmotion a VM which has a snapshot on it

vMotion has no restrictions of VM snapshots so it can be done. Storage vMotion is not possible with snapshots in 4.x, but could be done on ESXi 5.0.

My VMware blog: www.rickardnobel.se
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