Don't include cd-roms

[mike.spragg]

Not sure if this is possible but a couple of initial attempts failed with a failure surrounding the mounted cd-rom devices. Would be great to exclude those by default as I can't see a reason why you'd ever need to include those in the migration.

(With thanks to tscret for offering a script to do exactly this in advance !)

 

[tcabernoch]

I tend to think that's the system administrators screwing up, not the software. ESXi has the same challenge.
If your admin has mounted an ISO present only on that host and then left it that way, well vmotion to another host that does not have that ISO is not possible.
Tell your admins not to do that.

 

[guruevi]

CDROM are just disk images, there may be reasons to have them always on.

 

[mike.spragg]

CDROM are just disk images, there may be reasons to have them always on.

Well, if that’s the case, why does it error ?

 

[mike.spragg]

I tend to think that's the system administrators screwing up, not the software. ESXi has the same challenge.
If your admin has mounted an ISO present only on that host and then left it that way, well vmotion to another host that does not have that ISO is not possible.
Tell your admins not to do that.

Yes, I agree - but this isn’t vMotion - it’s more akin to vCenter Data Transfer - and that didn’t present the cds for transfer. Either way, of course this is a training thing but, also, if the software is always going to fail then you could always simply stop it from doing so by excluding it to begin with.