move vsa 8.5

[jusanz]

Hello,
i have 2 servers, dl580 g5 with the following configuration.

one raid1 with the sc and vsa
one raid 1 empty.
i want to migrate the vsa from raid1 to the empty raid, but when i try to do that with spehere 4.0 (cold migration, only the datastore) the operation is timed out.

please any help.


or i must to delete the vsa and install again?

[Uwe Zessin]

Have you tried to move only the VMDK at SCSI 1:0 ?

I have not tried it on ESX4, but on 3.5 it was not possible to move a single VMDK unless the VM config (.vmx & friends) was also moved.

If nothing helps, you can try to do a copy with "vmkfstools", detach the old VMDK and re-attach the copied VMDK on the new datastore.

[jusanz]

hello,i have fear i break anything.

could i delete the actual vsa and install a new one?

what will be happening during that task to the mv´s?

Thanks

[Uwe Zessin]

Sure, you can delete the VSA, but then all data is gone!
So make a good backup before you touch it.