storage vMotion for a VM on vCD

[cmegroz]

Hello,

I saw that datastore cluster is not yet supported but is it possible to do a storage vmotion, of a VM managed by vCloud Director, on the same vDC datastore ?

Imagine that I present 2 datastore to the vDC Provider, can I move the VM between the two datastore ?

Thanks for your answer.

Cédric

[Sreejesh_D]

yes, you can if both datastores on same Provider VDC.

[Sreejesh_D · Accepted solution]

see this Q&A blog.

http://www.virtual-blog.com/2010/10/vmware-vcloud-director-qa-part-2/

[bparlier]

Being aware that sDRS is not supported today, storage vmotions are supported as long as the resources are available on both sides. 

[kac2]

from what I understood, a Storage vMotion must be done through the HTTP REST APIs for vCloud.

[admin]

There is no REST vCD API for a storage vMotion that I know of.  It needs to be done through vSphere but as stated only if the two datastores are part of the same Provider vDC.

[kac2]

i was reading the documentation incorrectly. Storage vMotion for linked clones should only be invoked through the REST API Relocate_VM.

[lamw]

Storage vMotion is actually possible using the vCloud REST API using the "Relocate" operation not to be confused with the vSphere Storage vMotion operation "RelocateVM_Task". This operation is only available via the API and not through the vCloud UI

I recently wrote two blog articles showing how this works using both the vCloud REST API directly or using a vCO workflow + vCD plugin:

http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/02/performing-storage-vmotion-in-vcloud.html
http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/02/performing-storage-vmotion-in-vcloud_19.html

The "Storage vMotion" version in vCD will automatically handle shadowVM re-creation if you are using fast provisioning which the vSphere Storage vMotion is not aware of.