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Starting with vSphere 5.0 you can do storage vMotion of virtual machine with snapshots, see: <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/09/storage-vmotion-storage-drs-virtual-machine-snapshots.html" rel="ugc nofollow">https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/09/storage-vmotion-storage-drs-virtual-machine-snapshots.html</a>
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Starting with vSphere 5.0 you can do storage vMotion of virtual machine with snapshots, see: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/09/storage-vmotion-storage-drs-virtual-machine-snapshots.html [https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/09/storage-vmotion-storage-drs-virtual-machine-snapshots.html]

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No, if done correctly.<br />
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How are you moving it ?
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No, if done correctly.

How are you moving it ?

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I wanted to power down the VM and move it, think it's called a &quot;cold VM migration&quot; via the VMware ESXi client&quot; &nbsp;We are running 5.5.0 esxi
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I wanted to power down the VM and move it, think it's called a "cold VM migration" via the VMware ESXi client"  We are running 5.5.0 esxi

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Assuming you are using vCenter, you can do this even with the virtual machine powered on, see: <a href="https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1035550" rel="ugc nofollow">https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1035550</a>
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Assuming you are using vCenter, you can do this even with the virtual machine powered on, see: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1035550 [https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1035550]

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Will I lose snapshots or any configs by moving a VM to another datastore on the host? &nbsp;It's running on Vmware ESXi 5.5.0
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Will I lose snapshots or any configs by moving a VM to another datastore on the host?  It's running on Vmware ESXi 5.5.0

Migrating a VM with Snapshots

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VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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