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how to migrate a particular virtual disk ESXi v4.1 - no vmotion
What's the easiest way to migrate a particular virtual disk to another datastore? The source and target data stores are from local LUNs on the ESXi host. I do not have vMotion.
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I'm only wanting to copy one virtual drive. Not the others.. They are over 1TB.. Too big and can't waste that much time. Can't I just copy the one virtual disk? The data is being copied within the same ESXi server. I think the copy feature will show both the source and target folder since it's the same ESXi server. I'll give it a shot.
Yes. If its the same ESXi host you can copy the disk from one datastore to another.
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If you have NFS storage, you can connect both hosts to an NFS share and use that for copying. Connect to the NFS share with the Infrastructure client. If you have an unused Windows computer you can set up an NFS share on it. W2008 or newer is easier to create NFS shares than older windows versions.