svmotion, is it possible to migrate with 'eager zeroed thick' provisioning option like we can do via web vSphere 6.0.0 ?

[StardustECR]

Hello,

not found something about thick or this in this doc :

vSphere Documentation Center

svmotion --url= https://myvc.mycorp.com/sdk 

  --username=me 

  --password=secret 

  --datacenter=DC1 

  --vm='[old_datastore] myvm/myvm.vmx: new_datastore'

How to tell I need  'eager zeroed thick' ? I have 'lazy thick'

I prefer to not use 'vmkfstools' if possible, it's very long to extend a disk with this.

Regards

[Beingnsxpaddy]

You can use PowerCLI to achieve such a conversion.  Like you said, you can perform an sVMotion of a disk and specify a new storage format.  PowerCLI's Move-VM and Move-HardDisk cmdlets each have a parameter that allow for specifying the storage format of the hard disk(s) after the move.  An example of moving a VM and setting its storage format to eager zeroed thick:

Move-VM myVM0 -Datastore myDstore0 -DiskStorageFormat EagerZeroedThick -RunAsync

Ref : Mass convert all VMDK's to Eager Zero?

[StardustECR]

Thanks.

Is there the same with the vmware-vcli Linux with svmotion or anything else ? (not from the ESX itself, but a remote server)

[Beingnsxpaddy]

You can use these commands with powercli, not sure if commands are same on vCLI as I dont use it.