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Storage VMotion - Moving a single disk

Do you know if you can migrate a second hard disk that belongs to a vm without moving the whole VM?

I have a drive which contains transaction logs that I would like to move to another volume if possible without downing the server?

I have tried it using the Lost Creations plug-in but it said that the features wasn't availiable I'm wondering if it could be done via command line?

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mcwill
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From memory, you have to include the VM in all moves...

so we moved VM + both disks to new location

then moved VM + first disk back to original location leaving second disk behind.

(Not a problem if you are used to the Tower of Hanoi Smiley Happy )

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VMKR9
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You could remove it from the vm, then use the console to scp it to another volume, then add it back in again

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mcwill
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From memory, you have to include the VM in all moves...

so we moved VM + both disks to new location

then moved VM + first disk back to original location leaving second disk behind.

(Not a problem if you are used to the Tower of Hanoi Smiley Happy )

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