Now you should go back to the datastore browser, select the virtual machine on the new datastore, do a r ight mouse click on the vmxfile and select Add to Inventory. Select your virtual machine from the main screen, do a right mouse click and select Remove from Inventory. Once the virtual machine has been moved to the other datastore we still have to remove it from the inventory because the ESXi host thinks it’s still on the old datastore. Your virtual machine will be moved and depending on the size of its partitions and whether it has been thick or thin provisioned this might take awhile… Optionally you can select a folder where you want to move the virtual machine to…Click Moveto continue. In my example I select the 300 GB datastore. Now we select the datastore where we want to move the VM to. You will see a confirmation screen, just click Yesto continue. Select the virtual machine and click on the Move button in the toolbar. I want to move a virtual machine called “MMOBSERVIUM01″. You will see an overview of everything in the datastore. I want to move a VM from the 600 GB drive to the 300 GB drive.Ĭlick on your ESXi host and select Configuration > Datastore where your VM is located and click on Browse Datastore. In my example I have two datastores, one of 300 GB and the other one is 600 GB. Before you start make sure that the virtual machine that you want to move has been powered off. VMWare ESXi 5 Move VM to Different Datastore In this tutorial I will demonstrate how you can move your virtual machine from one datastore on another using VMWare ESX 5 using the Vsphere client.
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