Specifications

Basic System Administration
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supportthisconfigurationproducesawarning,butthemigrationcanproceed.
Whenthevirtualmachineispoweredonagain,theswapfileislocatedwiththe
virtualmachine.
SeetheVIClientonlineHelpformoreinformationonconfiguringswapfile
policies.
MigrationswithVMotionarenotallowedunlessthedestinationswapfilelocation

isthesameasthesourceswapfilelocation.Inpractice,thismeansthatvirtual
machineswapfilesmustbelocatedwiththevirtualmachineconfigurationfile.
Migrating Virtual Machines with Snapshots
Someadditionalrestrictionsapplywhenmigratingvirtualmachineswithsnapshots.
Migratingavirtualmachinewithsnapshotsispermitted,regardlessofthevirtual
machinepowerstate,aslongasthevirtualmachineisbeingmigratedtoanewhost
withoutmovingitsconfigurationfileordisks.(Inotherwords,thevirtualmachine

mustresideonsharedstorageaccessibletobothhosts.)
Ifthemigrationinvolvesmovingtheconfigurationfileorvirtualdisks,thenthe
followingadditionalrestrictionsapply:
 ThestartinganddestinationhostsmustberunningESXServer3version3.5orESX
Server3iversion3.5orlater.
 Allofthevirtualmachinefilesanddisksmustresideinasingledirectory,andthe
migrateoperationmustmoveallthevirtualmachinefilesanddiskstoasingle
destinationdirectory.
VMotion Compatibility
VMotioncompatibilityrequiresthatbothsourceanddestinationhostsmatchincertain
criteria.PossibledestinationhostsincludehostsandfullyautomatedDRSclusters.A
nonautomatedclustercanalsobeselectedasadestination.
Whenyouselectahost,theCompatibilitypanelatthebottomoftheMigrationwizard
displaysinformationabout
thecompatibilityoftheselectedhostorclusterwiththe
virtualmachine’sconfiguration.
Ifthevirtualmachineiscompatible,thepaneldisplaysthemessage,“Validation
succeeded.”Ifthevirtualmachineisnotcompatiblewitheitherthehost’sorcluster’s
configurednetworksordatastores,thecompatibilitywindowcandisplayboth
warningsand
errors: