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A lot is made about vmotion and power savings possible with non-24×7 environments, but it is possible to do similar things with Xen without noticeable downtime.

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So to first identify the mapping of portgroup name to vmk number, we enter the command hostsvc/vmotion/netconfig_get and we'll get a whole pile of output, but buried in there will be the device names in vmk

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Since Compellent has a unique Dynamic Block Architecture, it can "see" inside the vmdk and identify blocks that are rarely used and move them to lower, cheaper tiers of storage without administrator intervention, scripting or creation of snapshots on VMs to facilitate storage vmotion.

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“vmotion” – servers growing legs and dynamically moving

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If you are using ESX versions prior to 3.5 then use vimsh - n - e "hostsvc/vmotion/vnic_set portgroupname

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