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Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:59 AM
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I have two ESX servers, with a clustered VSA between them. I have a Windows2008 VM(direct iSCSI boot) on one server, and do a snapshot(using 2X). What would I have to do the power on that same VM on the other ESX server?

If I am using emBoot I am thinking that I just have to bring the snapshot online, point the VM to this volume using emBoot server, and I am in business?

Sure, for another $10K I could just buy Enterprise. But 10K for a small business is a lot of money.


Regards, Rich

HP ML350 SATA with VSA
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Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:09 PM
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Hi Rich

An Emboot client/server PXE system will let you boot up an OS based on its MAC address which you can script and preset.

Also this SVMotion is a Virtual Center 2.5 Plugin that lets you VMotion storage around SAN LUNS whilst the VM is running http://communities.vmware.com/thread/126141?tstart=0&start=0

Please Note that it has issues with Thin-Provisioned Stores.


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Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:43 PM
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I don't see any current dates connect with SVmotion?

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