Migrate VMs from one Datastore to another on ESX 4.1

Hello Experts,

I have an ESX 4.1 host but no vCenter. What is the best way to migrate the VMs from an old datastore to a new datastore as I don't have the facility of storage vMotion.

Many Thanks,

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8/22/2022 - Mon

Eric C

7/29/2016

I believe the latest version of VMware Workstation now has the ability to connect to ESX hosts. Perhaps you could do what you needed through there?

Or you could download a free trial of VMware vCenter.

Using vCenter, you can migrate a host, a datastore or both, and you don't need vMotion.

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Member_2_7969993

7/29/2016

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Thanks very much Andrew for so nice work.

I will give a go on Monday. Can we copy the files from one datastore and paste them to the other as per the following article?

HOW TO: Clone or Copy a virtual machine in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX/ESXi 4.x or ESXi 5.0

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

7/29/2016

Yes, as per article.

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James Murphy

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8/2/2016

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Thanks Andrew

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