move vSphere HA folder to another datastore by choosing datastore
Greetings,
I have HA folders on a datastore I want to remove. I asked a question here and got great info.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28414865/remove-datastore-from-vSphere-5-0-with-HA-folder.html
I am wondering if I go into the cluster's HA settings and manually choose the datastores which should be used for HA, will the existing HA folders be moved from their current datastore to the new HA datastores I manually chose?
Thanks for any help
I have HA folders on a datastore I want to remove. I asked a question here and got great info.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28414865/remove-datastore-from-vSphere-5-0-with-HA-folder.html
I am wondering if I go into the cluster's HA settings and manually choose the datastores which should be used for HA, will the existing HA folders be moved from their current datastore to the new HA datastores I manually chose?
Thanks for any help
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Ok, no worries...
Are you referring to Folders, in VMs and Templates view?
Yes folders you have created to make VM management easier?
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I am referring to the .vSphere-HA/FDM.../ folder on a particular datastore attached to two hosts. The folder contains these files: 'host-33-hb, host-33-poweron, host-10-hb, and host-10-poweron'. I was hoping to choose a few datastores, excluding this one, in the HA settings of the cluster. I then hoped the aforementioned HA folder/files would be moved or recreated on one of the chosen datastores.
All this to remove a datastore which hosts these files.
Thanks Andrew
All this to remove a datastore which hosts these files.
Thanks Andrew
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excellent info. As long as my VMs stay running, at least exchange, I can deal with it failing and my having to fix.
Thanks a lot again.
Thanks a lot again.
Yes, ESXi Host is a robust OS, it's surprising what you can do to it, and ALL the VMs still run!
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Ha! Let's hope it works in my favor this weekend. Thx. Have a good one.
Well post back here, if you have issues, I'll be around somewhere.
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will do. Thx a lot
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went to cluster>edit settings. choose to have only datastores I choose be used for HA. checked datastores about an hour later and the aforementioned folders were moved from the datastore I did NOT want the HA folders in to one of the datastores I chose. Seemed to have worked as planned / designed.
Thx for the help
Thx for the help
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I realize I closed this but I am unable to unpresent the LUN from the storage. Is it possible to just power the storage device down and then rescan the storage in vCenter? Should / could I remove the iSCSI mappings to this storage device then run the rescan? The presented datastores show 'unmounted' in vCenter and are italicized.
thx. I can ask new question if needed.
thx. I can ask new question if needed.
If it's current unmounted, the best way, is to remove the mapping first, then re-scan, and then power down the storage.
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thx a lot for the info. so to be clear, I should just remove the iSCSI mappings from the storage adapter settings (dynamic and static), then rescan?
thx again
thx again
Mapping on the SAN, remove the IQN from LUN Access, or Mapping for that LUN.
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yeah, this POS Promise technologies SAN/NAS is terrible. It was being used for extra storage. I cannot figure out where to remove the mapping. The LUN field is empty. I may need to call them.
thx again
thx again
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