SvMotion from vSAN to VMFS /shared storage and policy status

[baber]

Imagine we are using mix storage vSAN and VMFS shared storage .

1- Is that possible do svmotion from vmfs to vSAN ?

2- Is that possible svmotion from vSAN to vmfs or shared storage ? because while my policy for that vm is FTT=1  what will happen due svmotion to VMFS or shared storage ? what policy should use due svmotion ? Will replica vm remove automatically ?

[TheBobkin · Accepted solution]

1. Yes and vice-versa.

2. When migrating VMs stored data the vMotion wizard asks you to select either a storage policy (if the destination datastore is SPBM-aware) or uses 'Datastore Default' which is usually whatever the destination datastore has configured to store the data as.

What 'replica vm' are you referring to? If you are referring to redundant replicas of data (e.g. when migrating data that was stored as FTT=1 on vsanDatastore) then no, it won't move or create 2 copies of the data on the destination datastore unless that has some manner of replicating data (e.g. like vSAN does via storage policies and SPBM).