Performing Storage vMotion
One of the most common things you might need to do with your datastores is to relocate a virtual machine from one datastore to another using Storage vMotion. It allows administrators to rebalance storage utilization across datastores. It also allows administrators to completely vacate a datastore for maintenance or migration. Storage vMotion allows you to nondisruptively move a virtual machine between datastores and borrows its name from vMotion, which allows a VM to relocate from host to host, while the VM remains online.
Getting ready
To begin this recipe, you will need to open a PowerCLI window, connect to a vCenter server, and have a running virtual machine with at least two datastores connected to the host.
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