How do I move a datastore from one Datacenter to another?

[jmyotis]

I'm finding someone has assigned datastores to an incorrect Datacenter. Hoe do I move these datastores to the correct Datacenter without affecting the VM data contained within?

[MattiasN81]

I assume you have serveral storage arrays in several datacenters and someone has created a datastore on the wrong array.

U cant move an entire datastore from VMware, thats down on the storage array level.

The closest thing you can do whitout distrupting the VMs is to use storage vmotion to move VMs from one datastore to another,

[hussainbte]

If you want to get the LUN from the storage end moved, you will have to unmap it from the hosts in current datacenter and present it to ESX hosts in new datacenter.

Otherwise storage vMotion the VMs to a newly mapped LUN and delete the old one once all the machines are moved

[jmyotis]

I may have not provided enough information. The datastores are iSCSI volumes, via software adapter,  connected to hosts in DataCenter #1, yet the datastores were assigned to DataCenter #2.

[hussainbte]

You should have a certain separate set of hosts & Clusters in both datacenters.

If its a iSCSI LUN, you can either remove the target discovery from the software iSCSI adapter properties of the vmhba32.

or

You have limit the mapping of the LUN to certain host IPs/iqn's from the SAN. take help from the SAN admin.

Make sure you have no powered  on OR registered powered off VMs on the LUN in the datacenter/hosts you want to remove it from.