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Migrate a Virtual Machine to New Storage in the
vSphere Web Client
Use migration with Storage vMotion to relocate the configuration file of a virtual machine and virtual disks
while the virtual machine is powered on.
You can change the virtual machine host during a migration with Storage vMotion.
Prerequisites
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Verify that your system satisfies the requirements for Storage vMotion. See Storage vMotion
Requirements and Limitations.
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Required privilege: Resource.Migrate powered on virtual machine
Procedure
1 Right-click the virtual machine and select Migrate.
a To locate a virtual machine, select a data center, folder, cluster, resource pool, host, or vApp.
b Click the Virtual Machines tab.
2 Click Change storage only and click Next.
3 Select the format for the virtual machine's disks.
Option Action
Same format as source Use the same format as the source virtual machine.
Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed Create a virtual disk in a default thick format. Space required for the virtual disk is
allocated during creation. Any data remaining on the physical device is not erased
during creation. Instead, it is zeroed out on demand on first write from the virtual
machine.
Thick Provision Eager Zeroed Create a thick disk that supports clustering features such as Fault Tolerance.
Space required for the virtual disk is allocated at creation time. In contrast to the
thick provision lazy zeroed format, the data remaining on the physical device is
zeroed out during creation. It might take longer to create disks in this format than
to create other types of disks.
Thin Provision Use the thin provisioned format. At first, a thin provisioned disk uses only as much
datastore space as the disk initially needs. If the thin disk needs more space later,
it can expand to the maximum capacity allocated to it.
4 Select a virtual machine storage policy from the VM Storage Policy drop-down menu.
Storage policies specify storage requirements for applications that run on the virtual machine. You
can also select the default policy for vSAN or Virtual Volumes datastores.
Important If the virtual machine hard disks use different storage policies, the new policy that you
select only applies to non-PMem hard disks. PMem hard disks are migrated to the host-local PMem
datastore of the destination host.
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