Moving a virtual machine from one SAN to another

[cdhall]

Top o' the morning, tech heads,

I have a virtual machine I need to move from one san to another. I believe that I'll need to power down the guest OS, download all files (see attached image), create a lun on the destination san, then upload the files to that lun. We're running vmware 5.5. Does this sound about right?

[rcporto · Accepted solution]

Your vSphere ESXi host is a standalone host or it is managed by vCenter ? If managed by vCenter, just do a Storage vMotion... if not, take a look at this KB article: VMware KB: Moving or copying a virtual machine within a VMware environment

[cdhall]

It is managed by vCenter. Thanks. Still learning my way around vmware....

[rcporto]

Take a look here for how to migrate a virtual machine using Storage vMotion: Migrate a Virtual Machine with Storage vMotion in the vSphere Web Client