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Well standard VMotion works but there is no option in the regular wizard to migrate the storage that I can see when the VMs are powered on...
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Well standard VMotion works but there is no option in the regular wizard to migrate the storage that I can see when the VMs are powered on...

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Right Click the VM, and select Migrate ? (when the VM is ON!)
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Right Click the VM, and select Migrate ? (when the VM is ON!)

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Yeap no storage options in the migrate wizard (while he VM is on)
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Yeap no storage options in the migrate wizard (while he VM is on)

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Storage vMotion not available.
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It would appear that I cannot migrate the storage on powered on VMs on an old version 2.5 vSphere cluster I have inherited to manage. We need to migrate all the VMs on it to new storage... am I going to have to power off all the VMs to do this?
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It would appear that I cannot migrate the storage on powered on VMs on an old version 2.5 vSphere cluster I have inherited to manage. We need to migrate all the VMs on it to new storage... am I going to have to power off all the VMs to do this?

Storage migration on vCenter 2.5 with ESX 3.5

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