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Table Of Contents
Lab Manager User’s Guide
164 VMware, Inc.
Move a Datastore
Onlysystemadministratorscanmoveadatastore.
To move a datastore
1OntheLabManagerserver,runSSMove.exe,whichislocatedinC:\Program Files\VMware\Vmware
Lab Manager\Tools\SSMove.
YoucanonlyrunasingleinstanceofSSMoveatatime.
2ClickRefreshSizestoupdatetheusedandavailablespaceinformationforthedatastores.
3Filterthesourcetreesbased
ontheirdatastoreorsize.
a Selectthedatastorethatcontainsthedatayouwanttomove.
bTypeaminimumtreesize(GB).
4ClickApply.
5 Chooseasourcetreetomove.
aOntheViewDatastoreUsagepage,movethepointeroverthevirtualmachineandselectContext.
bMovethepointerovertherootofthetreetodisplaythedirectorypath.
ThedirectoryIDoftherootnodeisthesourcetreethatyouwanttomove.
6 Selectthedestinationdatastore.
ThedropdownmenuliststhedatastoresthatareconnectedtothesameESXhostsasthesourcedatastore
andtheamount
offreespace(GB)onthedatastore.
7 SelectMove.
SSMovemovesthedatafromthesourcetothedestinationandreportsitsprogressintheStatusarea.
8ClickExitwhenthemoveiscomplete.
9IntheLab ManagerWebconsole,enablethedatastore.
10 NotifyusersthattheycanlogintoLab Manager.
Resolving Move Errors
Iferrorsoccurduringthemove,thissectiondescribeshowtofixthem.
To resolve move errors if an error message appears
1Readthestatusmessage.
2ResolvetheproblemthatpreventedthemoveandrunSSMove.exeagaintomovetheremaining
directories.
IntheSourceTreedropdownmenu,treeswithdirectoriesthathavenotmovedareidentifiedaspartially
completed.Whenyouselectapartiallymovedtree,youcanmovetheentiretreeoronlytheremaining
directories.
To resolve errors if SSmove loses data when the destination datastore is NFS
1Runselect display_name from datastore where sub_directory = N'/'
2IfLab Managerdoesnotdisplayaresult,continueusingSSMove.
3Ifthereisaresult,runUpdate datastore set sub_directory = N'/VM' where display_name in
(select display_name from datastore where sub_directory = N'/').
4VerifywhetherthedirectoryvirtualmachineexistsontheNFSdatastores.
5If
thedirectorydoesnotexist,createit.