NFS datastore move (vms inside)

ORCUN_USTURALI — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:41:02 GMT

Hello to all

We use VMware with NFS datastore, lost of virtual machines inside.

We need to migrate the volume to SSD aggregate, we used VmwareStorageMotion before , no worries with that.

My question is about "volume move" , previously i had moved volumes with CIFS or snapmirror destination.

But never tried a volume inside virtual machines alive .

Any experience with that?,any issues?

will it create downtime?

can you share your thoughts with that issue

regards

Re: NFS datastore move (vms inside)

Abeltran — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:20:41 GMT

Hello ORCUN_USTURALI,

I did it many times in the past with no issues or downtime. I recommend to do it on low system utilization hours, and manual cutover to manage the best moment to trigger the move.

You can create a little datastore with some testing Virtual Machine to check all the steps before migration of the production volumes.

Kind regards,

Albert

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