VMWare ESXi 5 Move VM to Different Datastore

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This topic is to discuss the following lesson:

https://networklessons.com/uncategorized/vmware-esxi-5-move-vm-to-different-datastore/

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Excellent How-to!
Great pictures, explanations, etc…

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Professional, detailed, the screenshots are perfect. Great job.

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Thanks for the explanation.

I found it because I just bought an SSD to add to my Whitebox. I’m migrating some of the heavier duty VMs from my old 2TB HD to the SSD. I was wondering whether any additional changes or steps should be taken since I’m converting from spinning rust to an SSD.

Thanks!

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Hi Dylan,

Good to hear it was helpful to you. I can’t think of any other changes you’ll have to make…

Rene

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Thanks Francesco!

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Why we didn’t use storage vmotion, is there any specific reason behind this.

Thanks Leo

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Great Article. I have a question though. When I browse my datastore for my virtual machine, there are a few files in there that look like VirtualMachine_1.vmdk and VirtualMachine_2.vmdk. I know these are likely due to snapshots but my goal is to move this vm to a smaller datastore and need to get rid of these files before I do so.
any ideas?

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Also, I have multiple datastores attached to this vm that I don’t want to move, will this process affect those other datastores? I am thinking no as the vmdk file would still have all the config info. But wanted to verify with someone else first.

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Hi Rene,
Its really informative and helped me out in production environment. After this, I have a little query that by moving VM in different data store effect other VM’s running on that data store.

Regards,
Ahmed

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nice pictorial article!

Just one question? What will happen if computer/internet got disconnected from the machine where we initiate the move? Does ESXi got the required command to move or that computer needs to stay awake?

Thanks in advance.
Sal

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Hi Sal,

Never tried it, my guess is that it will keep moving the files…not sure though.

Rene