VMware Storage vMotion is used to move running virtual machine from one datastore to another datastore. The running virtual machine stays on the server that it is on and the memory for the virtual machine never moves. The virtual machine disk files only moves from one datastore to another datastore. Storage vMotion uses Datamover to move the disk files.
VMware Storage vMotion requirements:
1- Minimum of vSphere Enterprise license.
Since it's a lab environment i am using Starwinds iSCSI SAN software. I have already presented a storage named "STORAGE" on both hosts which is a source storage and where a virtual machine currently lives. I have also presented another storage from SAN named "BACKUP"to both hosts which will act as a destination storage.
1- Right click the running virtual machine and select migrate.
2- Select change datastore and select next.
3- Select the destination storage in my case "Backup" and select next.
4- Select finish.
5- Observe the progress in task bar.
6- After couple of minutes, the virtual machine has been successfully migrated to another datastore.
VMware Storage vMotion requirements:
1- Minimum of vSphere Enterprise license.
Since it's a lab environment i am using Starwinds iSCSI SAN software. I have already presented a storage named "STORAGE" on both hosts which is a source storage and where a virtual machine currently lives. I have also presented another storage from SAN named "BACKUP"to both hosts which will act as a destination storage.
1- Right click the running virtual machine and select migrate.
2- Select change datastore and select next.
3- Select the destination storage in my case "Backup" and select next.
4- Select finish.
5- Observe the progress in task bar.
6- After couple of minutes, the virtual machine has been successfully migrated to another datastore.
Conclusion: In this post i have shown how to configure storage vMotion and also perform the testing. In the next post i will show how to configure VMware High Availability.
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