Awesome. Thank you sir!
On Feb 4, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Sebastian Goetze spgoetze@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Scott,
the online alignment happens by storage-vMotioning the mis-aligned VM into a 'reverse-misaligned' VMFS-datastore. Thereby the two mis-alignments will cancel each other out and your VM is aligned.
A NFS datastore can't be misaligned. (But the VMDKs *in* it can...) So no way of using a NFS datastore to compensate for mis-alignment.
Also, as soon as you vMotion the VM away from the (correct) 'reverse-misaligned' datastore, your VM will be misaligned again, since you loose the compensation.
Solution: Do an offline alignment. Then your free to vMotion where-ever you like to (as long as the datastore is correctly aligned).
OK?
Sebastian
On 04.02.2013 20:41, Scott Eno wrote:
Hi,
We're trying to get some VM's aligned in our NFS-based VMware environment using the "online" alignment tool packaged in VSC. Since we are NFS, the tool needs a VMFS datastore to use to align the VM. When we run the tool and it moves the VM to the VMFS datastore, the VM no longer shows up as misaligned.
However, if we move the VM back to an NFS datastore, it shows up as misaligned again.
So, is this a one-way trip? NFS --> VMFS, but that VM can never go back? _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters@teaparty.net http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters