Hi,
The last time I did this it was on a VCenter 5.01 server but when I did do it I would put the host in maintenance mode before doing this as you didn't know whether machines would move for other reasons. This was all using the VMWare client, if I had to do it now I would use PowerShell or another CLI because I think the web based console isn't so accessible.
Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: John G Heim
Sent: 11 September 2020 20:32 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] VMware: Which virtual machine is on which host? I have been a backup VMWare admin for a few years. Actually, I'm third in
Download and install rvtools.
It gives all kinds of information from your VCenter server and can even
export it all to spreadsheets.
As for migration, I use powershell (powerCLI) to do those tasks.
-----Original Message-----
From: John G Heim
We have 4 hosts in our cluster. I need to shift some VMs around so I can
take a host out of the cluster. Then I am going to install Linux on the host and recreate the virtual machine on the new Linux host. The goal would be to get to just one host with one virtual machine, the vcenter server. At that point we could just turn it off.
I know how to migrate a VM to another host but what I don't know is how to
figure out where to move it. Is there a way to show which VMs are running on which host in the VSphere client? Can I get a report of how burdened a host is? I keep googling this stuff and I get answers way beyond this simple stuff I want to do.
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