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Vcenter server 5.5 Essentials

Is there a way to move V Ms from one Host to another and keep the VM running while doing it without v motion? I also want to add that my Hosts currently are running with a 16GB  SSD card if that makes any difference on the question I'm not sure of.
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Do you have shared storage like NAS? and vCenter?
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I have Vcenter with a HP 2000 that holds my vm OS. I have another partition just for the Data.
Cool.
Put VM in standby, move to other host and start up. Should be <10s if you sneak with perl api or powercli...
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Will the vm still stay running in my enviroment so people could work or no?
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I will try Andrew and get back to you to let ya know what happens. Thanks for the help.
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vmotion also freezes network for seconds. no damage to the service at all, just be fast.
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I received this error.
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Sorry forgot to upload
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You can still move between hosts with my method.
There is no easy way to convert RDM to VMDK except for image cloning, that takes lots of downtime.
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does veeam quick migration delete vm after it migrates
It states what it means, it's not Supported.

No it leaves the VM on the old host.

So you have shared storage ?

why are you using a RDM ? Clustering ?
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It must of been setup that way before me it did not know it was RDM. Is there away i could get a trial license for vsphere 5.1 essentials with vmotion? I have 6.5 but i will have to do excuatly the opposite and shut each server down.
As for a trial license, you would need to re-install ESXi and vCenter Server, and then you'll have a 60 days full evaluation mode,.
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This worked on my Lab environment when testing and went well now i will do it in my production environment when i get back from vacation. Thanks Andrew.