Vmotion machines between NFS & VMFS5

[tractng]

Can somebody confirm it is ok to do this (VMware 5.5)?  We might have to shutdown a storage for maintenance and move a few machines over to NFS. As long as it is not MS Exchange....

Its supported based on this. 

Storage vMotion between NFS and VMFS datastores - VMware vSphere Blog

Thanks,

TT

[sjesse · Accepted solution]

If you want real validation, I'd open an SR, but I've done this in my lab before. VMotion just uses storage apis, so if its a valid datastore I don't think it matters. You may lose some VAAI capabilies though on a NFS datastore so you may see increased CPU usage on that host because the feature isn't being offloaded to the storage array.

[RAJ_RAJ]

NFS if file based and the VMFS5 will be FC / iSCSI and it is block type .

And if you want to do storage vmotion it is supported only there will be performance degradation and some features won't support (SIOC , VAAI etc )

I hope for maintenance it is not a challenge because after migration you  will moving the vm back to storage .

[tractng]

Thanks guys. I moved them and waiting for our vendor to rebuilt the redundancy hardware in our main unit.