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I have a question about moving drives attached to a VM guest. I have a DBA the wants me to great a VM guest with ten (10) 1 GB drives, five (5) on SAS disks and five (5) on SATA disks. I will be using A NetApp FAS 8020 to host these drives. My question is can I and if so how would I, detach a drive (VMDK file) from this VM guest and reattach it to a different VM Guest. The drive will be holding historical data and not an application or the OS. The VM guest will be running Linux 7 with an Oracle DB. The DBA will take care of mounting the disk once it had been moved and presented to the other VM guest. Currently the NetApp is attached as NFS using an iSCSI adapter.
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Assuming the source and destination VMs have the same operating system, it's as simple as:
If you want to clean up the location of the VMDKs (i.e. put them all in the same folder on the datastore), the easiest way is to do an SvMotion.
Andrew
Assuming the source and destination VMs have the same operating system, it's as simple as:
If you want to clean up the location of the VMDKs (i.e. put them all in the same folder on the datastore), the easiest way is to do an SvMotion.
Andrew
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