Relocates a powered-on VM's files and virtual disks between datastores with no outage; the host can stay the same or change at the same time.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Storage vMotion in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Related terms
- Storage DRS
Uses Storage vMotion and VMDK anti-affinity rules to choose where new VMs go and to keep space usage even across all datastores in a datastore cluster.
- VAAI
Lets compatible block and NAS arrays take over heavy jobs from ESX hosts, for example disk zeroing, clones, VMFS locks and the copying done by Storage vMotion.
- vMotion
Moves a running VM to another host with no downtime; its storage counterpart, Storage vMotion, relocates the files between datastores instead.