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Event messages appear in the Events tab. The data displayed on the Summary tab shows the status and
state throughout the migration. If errors occur during migration, the virtual machines revert to their original
states and locations.
Migrate a Virtual Machine to New Storage
Use migration with Storage vMotion to relocate the conguration le 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 satises the requirements for Storage vMotion. See “Storage vMotion
Requirements and Limitations,” on page 124.
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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 rst 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 rst, 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.
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