How to migrate a powered off VM from a DataStore to another

[Virtualized1]

Hello,

I have some  problems within my organization  with space on a shared fast storage and i want to be able to migrate vms that are in powered off state to a slower shared datastore.

This operation has to be fully automated made by a script that will be configured to run automaticaly at some period of time.

Can anyone help me ?

Thanks

[memaad]

Hi,

If you are using vSphere 5.X, then you can use SDRS , storage DRS, which automatically trigger storage migration of VM based on I/O load and storage space availability on datastore.

"vSphere Storage DRS continuously monitors storage space and I/O utilization across a pre-assigned pool of datastores and intelligently aligns storage resources to meet your business growth objectives."

Here is  blog from VMware on SDRS

http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/storage-drs.html

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/07/vsphere-50-storage-features-part-5-storage-drs-initial-place...

Regards

Mohammed