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  • 1.  storage vmotion a vm on multiple datastores

    Posted May 31, 2017 03:58 PM

    I have a storage vmotion that I attempted but it did not move all disks to the datastore I specified.   If a VM has disks spread among multiple datastores - should the move-vm cmdlet move ALL disks to the datastore I specify with the -datastore parameter?



  • 2.  RE: storage vmotion a vm on multiple datastores
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    Posted May 31, 2017 04:27 PM

    If you specify a datastore as the value of the Move-VM -Datastore parameter, the cmdlet should move all of the disks of the VM to the datastore specified.



  • 3.  RE: storage vmotion a vm on multiple datastores

    Posted May 31, 2017 05:27 PM

    ok thanks - and if it doesn't ?  what could have happened?



  • 4.  RE: storage vmotion a vm on multiple datastores

    Posted May 31, 2017 07:27 PM

    Maybe the destination datastore had not enough free space for all disks of the virtual machine?



  • 5.  RE: storage vmotion a vm on multiple datastores

    Posted Jun 03, 2017 03:45 AM

    think it was a swap file pinned to a special datastore - thanks for the input.