Question regarding VM Config File and VM Working Location

[Dave_Houston]

I noticed one of my virtual machines had two datastores listed under "Related Objects" in the vSphere Client.

After some digging around, I found the virtual machine files are in the correct data store but the "VM Config File" and "VM Working Location" are in another data store.

Can I consolidate all to the same data store?   I prefer to have the config and working location to be on my main storage which has plenty of space.  For some reason the Config File and Working Location were created on a local storage on my host.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

David Moore

[rcporto · Accepted solution]

You can use the Storage vMotion to migrate only the virtual machine configuration file to the desired location, just launch the Storage vMotion wizard and on step "Select Datastore" click on Advanced and you will see the option to select a new destination datastore just for the configuration file.

[Dave_Houston]

Thanks - that did the trick.  I was unsure if migrating it to the same storage array would cause any issues.  Worked like a charm!

Thanks again,

David