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Svmotion in different ESXi License

Good day to all of you

My Question is simple,

I have two ESXi with different Lincese ( one Enterprise plus and the other is Advance) Can I move the VMs on ESXi ent+ to the host ESXi Adv or not >?

thanks

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I didn't try this myself, however I assume that you can use Storage VMotion on the Enterprise Plus licensed host to move the running VM's files to any location that this host have access to. Storage VMotion only moves the files to a different location, the workload itself remains running on the host.

If the Advanced host's storage is a local storage, Storage VMotion will not work anyway, since the Enterprise Plus host cannot access the local datastore. In this case you would have to migrate the files offline (with the VM powered off)

André

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