Are you able to perform a live migration between local storage and a SAN?
Hi! I cannot for the life of me get a solid answer. We've discussed that if the Host cannot see the SAN obviously then it cannot migrate. Previously mentioned that if you try to perform it while the two switches are different, you will prompted to enter the 2nd switch, but it will not disconnect from the network.
Posted Nov 28, 2018, 7:25 PM UTC
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Live storage migration/ storage vmotion.
Thank you! This article was telling me that live storage migration wasn't an appropriate term and was telling me that a shared nothing live migration would be aptly so for a Local storage to SAN drive https://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/hyper-v-storage-migration/
I mean that question you link to at the top of the page is awfully contrived. In the “real world” I’d use hyperv replica for storage migration and accept/schedule the very brief outage for the server to restart after the replica has finished initial sync. I need things done “right” more than I need them done fast or in an interesting manner.
For What it’s worth, I read the top commenters post as an esxi answer - Namely because of “storage vmotion”. In esxi this is totally doable just fine.
You linked to HyperV docs, so perhaps double check? Your link indicates it’s fine though.
Disclaimer: I know VMware, not hyperv.