{"id":1844,"date":"2016-10-06T18:23:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T18:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2016-10-06T18:23:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T18:23:46","slug":"migrate-vdms-from-one-san-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/migrate-vdms-from-one-san-to-another","title":{"rendered":"Migrate VDM&#8217;s from one SAN to Another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2234 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rdm_basic1-150x150.png\" alt=\"rdm_basic1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>It might be worth checking if these still need to be RDM&#8217;s. This was previously used for older versions of VMDK&#8217;s could only use 2TB , now with esx 5.5 and Virtual Machine hardware 10 this is upped to 62TB<\/p><p><strong>Changed <\/strong>Pysical<strong> RDM to <\/strong>Virtaul<strong> RDM to VMDK&#8217;s<\/strong><\/p><p>Use the webclient for this<\/p><p>1) Shutdown the server <br \/>2) Upgrade the Virtual Hardware to 10<br \/>3) Remove the Physical RDM Lun<br \/>4) Re-Add the Lun as Virtual<br \/>5) Power on server<br \/>6) Storage VMotion to New SAN<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><strong>FYI Virtual RDM&#8217;s cannot be resized without shutting down the machine unlike Physical\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;It might be worth checking if these still need to be RDM&#8217;s. This was previously used for older versions of VMDK&#8217;s could only use 2TB , now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[929,1644,1646,1647,1642,1645,594],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-migration","tag-physical","tag-rdm","tag-resize","tag-san","tag-virtual","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2235,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}