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8 Selectaresourcepool,andclickNext.
TheResourcePoolSelectionpagedoesnotappearifavirtualmachinewas
droppedonaresourcepool.
9 Selectthemigrationprioritylevel:
 HighPriority–VirtualCenterreservesresourcesonboththesourceand
destinationhoststomaintainvirtualmachineavailabilityduringthe
migration.Highprioritymigrationsdonotproceedifresourcesare
unavailable.
 LowPriority–VirtualCenterdoesnotreserveresourcesonthesourceand
destinationhoststomaintainavailabilityduringthemigration.Lowpriority
migrationsalwaysproceed.However,thevirtualmachinemightbecome
brieflyunavailableifhostresourcesareunavailableduringthemigration.
10 Clicktheappropriatebutton,andclickNext.
Afteralloptions
havebeenselected,aReadytoCompletepageappearsthatshows
asummaryoftheselectedchoices.
11 Reviewthepage,andclicktheFinishbutton.
WhenyouclicktheFinishbutton,ataskiscreatedthatbeginsthevirtualmachine
migrationprocess.Whilethevirtualmachineisintheprocessof
beingmigrated,
youhaveonlylimitedaccesstoitsfunctions.
Ifyouwanttochangeanyoptions,clicktheBackbuttontostepbackthroughthe
wizardorclickanyofthelinksintheleftpanetogobacktoaspecificpage.Ifyou
clickalink,thesubsequent
linksthatfollowitreverttounseenpageentries,and
youmustmovesequentiallythroughthewizardusingtheNextbutton.
Migration with Storage VMotion
UsingStorageVMotion,youcanmigrateavirtualmachineanditsdiskfilesfromone
datastoretoanotherwhilethevirtualmachineisrunning.Youcanchoosetoplacethe
virtualmachineandallitsdisksinasinglelocation,orselectseparatelocationsforthe
virtualmachineconfigurationfileand
eachvirtualdisk.Thevirtualmachinedoesnot
changeexecutionhostduringamigrationwithStorageVMotion.