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Migrate a VMware View linked-clone replica to another ESXi host

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The other day I was patching the hosts in a cluster which currently hosts our Virtual Desktop environment.  I’ve put the first host in the cluster into the maintenance mode and migrated all the Virtual Desktops to the other host in the cluster.  Unfortunately I also migrated the VMware View Linked-Clone replica residing on that host.  I forgot to un-tick the prompt tick box about “Powered off VMs” which comes up after you initiate maintenance mode for the host.  Luckily this didn’t create a major issue as VMware View doesn’t care about which host the replica resides on.  It only cares about the datastore the replica and the linked clones are stored on (so it’s best to turn off SDRS for VDI clusters*). But nevertheless, I wanted to migrate replica back to its original host.  However, when I tried to do so, I’ve realised the migrate option on the replica was greyed out.

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SEPM12.1 – Security Virtual Appliance Unknown Status

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I have recently deployed Symantec EndPoint Protection in our my environment.  Great product, unfortunately can be a little tricky to configure sometimes.

For the purposes of this post, I’m assuming you have installed and configured the following:

  • vShield Manager
  • Security Virtual Appliance on each Esxi host, SVA must be installed on each host hosting virtual machines using a vShield-enabled Shared Insight Cache.
  • Symantec EndPoint Protection Manager
  • Symantec EndPoint Protection Client

Once all of the above is installed and configured, you may find you are getting a “Unknown Status” in the Security Virtual Appliance column of the Client table in Symantec EndPoint Protection Manager.

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