[ovirt-users] vmware type functionality

[Dan Yasny]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Sven Kieske <s.kieske at mittwald.de> wrote:

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> On 24/10/14 15:31, Bill Dossett wrote:
> > Hi, Thanks for that.  I understand I can see that, but in vmware we
> sometimes get orphaned VMs that the portal loses for one reason or another
> and you have to register the with the system again.   Or If I move to some
> new storage and have to copy the VMs to the new storage and then reregister
> them with a new storage domain - I normally browse the datastore in VMware
> for the vmx config file and then I can reregister it...  But maybe Ovirt
> when you present a new storage domain just sees the VMs and you don't have
> to register?  I haven't been down this route - well I sort of was, but also
> if I have VMs on a storage domain and say want to connect it to another
> data center, can I non-destructively do that?  Sorry, kind of a steep
> learing curve I've been on for the last couple of weeks.
>
> You should keep the users list cc'ed so everybody with the same
> questions can find the answers too :)
>
> Well I never have seen "lost" vms in ovirt, but if you want to move
> vms between storage domains afaik the only way to currently do so
> is to export a vm from a data domain to an export domain and than
> import from this export domain to another data domain.
>

In the same DC all you need to do is "right click" and select "move", can
be done live.
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