Enabling and configuring the Vmotion

Enabling and configuring the Vmotion

Hi Christina,

You need to consider the following:

• Data store compatibility – the source and destination host must use a shared storage implemented using SAN or iSCSI.
• Network compatibility – it requires a Gigabit ethernet network. Source and destination hosts must have same access to subnets and labels to each virtual ethernet adapter should match.
• CPU compatibility – the source and destination host must have compatible CPUs.

Steps to configure VMotion:

• Select the host that you want to enable VMotion
• Click on Configuration, and on the left hand side there is a panel Hardware, click on Networking
• In the Virtual Switch that you want to enable VMotion, click on Properties
• In the vSwitch properties’ tab Ports, add a VMkernel configuration
• After you add it, click on Edit
• Here are the fields that are in the VMkernel Properties

1. Port Properties
2. Network Lab
3. VLAN ID (Optional)
4. VMotion: check to box to enable VMotion

• Do the same thing to the other host that is in same cluster.

I hope it helped.