move entire view environment to new luns

[bartvincke]

I need to move my entire environment to different luns due to a san that's starting to fail and needs to be repaired.

For the servers I will just do a storage vmotion to the new luns.

However I am wondering how to proceed with the view 4.5 environment included.

I am running Vsphere 4 enterprise plus with Vcenter

My view setup consists of view composer, linked clones and persistent HD's.

I need to retain all data ( the persistent disks )

Can someone point me to a procedure how to move a full view environment using linked clones ?

[Jubish]

Hi,

For server (connection server, transfer server,view composer, vc) perform a storage VMotion.

Perform the same for manual pool VMs.

For linked clone pools:

-Edit the pools

-Uncheck the existing datastore  selection

-Select new datastores

-Perform a rebalance  operation

This should move all linked clone desktops to new datastore.

-J

[bartvincke]

thanks this sounds like the good way to go

just to verify, by deselecting the current luns and adding the new ones and afterwards doing a rebalance, my current persistent disks will be moved over also ?

[Jubish]

Yes, the persistent disks (user data disks) also will be moved, and the user data will be preserverd.

Thanks,

-J

[rseabrooke]

The VM`s will not rebalance if users are still connected.