Storage vmotion from many to one vmfs

[polsson2]

Hi

I have a virtual server with 6 virtual disks in 4 different vmfs,

and want to migrate all disks to 1 vmfs, but what happens to the disk names if I use storage vmotion ?

At the moment I have 4 disknames EX01.vmdk and 2 EX01_1.vmdk.

Is storage vmotion "smart" enough to rename the disks on the fly ?

[Troy_Clavell]

if you Storage vMotion to a new destination LUN, all vmdks will be renamed to match the folder that contains the name of the vCenter object.  For instance if your VM's name is test, the folder within the LUN is named test, all your .vmdks will be named test.vmdk, test_1.vmdk  and so on....

[polsson2]

Thank you for the fast reply.

Does that mean that even if the disks have the same name now,

they will be renamed to EX01.vmdk, EX01_1.vmdk, EX01_2.vmdk and so on ?

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

all disks will be renamed to match the vCenter Object Name.  They will not carry the original name.  When you Storage vMotion, you rename the underlying files to match the vCenter Object name.

[polsson2]

Thank you Troy

I will go ahead with the storage vmotion without being afraid of

destroying my disk files.