Moving a VM to a different datastore

[Saintly]

Hi,

I was running out of space on one of my datastores so i descided to move one of my VMs to a different one.

I have ESXi v5.1 with Essentials plus so i don't have Storage vMotion so i shut down the VM and then Migrated Datastore to the new space.

Everything ticked along (quite slow) and eventualy finished without error.

I then restarted the VM, also without error.

Now when i go to Inverntory, Datastores and look in the new location i can see the server with all the expected numbers.

But, if i look at the OLD location i can still see the server listed.  also the Used space numbers look odd.

If i shutdown the VM them both locations stop.

I have moved 3 other servers in the same way, 2 worked without issue, 1 produced the same result.

I have refreshed the datastore view without change.

Any ideas what i may have done wrong or what i can do to fix it?

Thanks for your time

Ian

[Saintly]

sorry that the images above look so small.  if you click them they are readable.

Ian

[sparrowangelste]

did you only move the VMDKs or the whole folder?

if you go to edit options you can also see the vmx location and working location of the vm.

[Saintly]

Hi,

I moved the VM useing the right click, migrate option rather than trying to move things manualy.  The same process worked for other VMs.

Looking at Edit, options tab it looks like everything is in the correct place to me.

Any other ideas/options?

Thanks

Ian