How to move a virtual machine between datastores on UCS

[rcrumm_2]

HI,

How Can I move a virtual mahcine between datastores?

Thanks,

Randall

[Chris Deren]

Do you have vCenter.

Chris

[rcrumm_2]

Hi,

I am using the vsphere client

randall

[Jaime Valencia]

What you're asking for requires vCenter, the feature is called Storage vMotion and you also need to have a shared storage to do so.

HTH

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[Aaron Harrison · Accepted solution]

Hi

Or if you are asking how you move it (but not necessarily migrate it while it's live):

Option 1 - Take a backup, build a new server from the appropriate OVA in the new datastore, and then restore the backup to the new VM

Option 2 - Shut it down, browse the datastore using vSphere client, and copy the VM and all the files to the new location.

Aaron

[rcrumm_2]

Thanks Aaron,

Option 2 worked, but I had to remove and add to inventory.