Storage vMotion question

[Darkart777]

Hello All,

Newbie VMware admin here hopefully this is an easy question. I have several Microsoft SQL boxes that i need to move the drive that the OS is installed on, they all have RDM's attached when i attempt a storage vmotion it looks like its wanting to move all the drives instead of just one, i have never attempted to move a system with RDM's attached to it but i need to move off this old storage we have in a hurry. Any advice is appriciated thank you!

Thank you,

[rcporto]

I will recommend you take a look at the following KB article: VMware KB:    Migrating virtual machines with Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) and if you have any additional doubt, let us know.

[Darkart777]

The thing is i can't take these systems down, they have a zero outage policy. i don't need to storage vmotion the RDM disks just the boot disk which is a VMDK sorry i should have included that information.

[rcporto]

On the Migrate Virtual Machine wizard, on the select datastore, click on Advanced and you will have the change to select only your virtual hard disk to migrate.

[Darkart777]

Thank you for the advice that looks like it will work just one more question, in the advanced storage vmotion it shows the boot disk i want to move but also a configuration file do i need to move both of those at the same time or can i do one after the other.

Thank you!

[rcporto · Accepted solution]

You can migrate both at the same time, even if you choose different destination.

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