I was exploring the next version of ESX / vCenter again today and did a Storage VMotion via the vSphere client. I decided to take a couple of screenshots to get you guys acquainted with the new look/layout.
Doing a Storage VMotion via the GUI is nothing spectacular cause we all have used the 3rd party plugins. But changing the disk from thick to thin is. With vSphere it will be possible to migrate to thin provisioned disks, which can and will save disk space and might me desirable for servers that have low disk utilization and disk changes.
Right click a VM and click on “Migrate”
What do you want to do? VMotion? Storage VMotion? Or both?
Select the host
Select the datastore
Thin or Thick or the same format as the original?
Migration priority, High or Low?
Here we go
Going going gone…
Jason Boche says
I am jealous of your vSphere posts. 🙂
NiTRo says
The “disk format” options looks great !
Thanks for sharing, i’m jealous too :p
justme says
once again…. Isn’t this still under NDA… I haven’t seen my NDA lifted yet?
daniel says
does thin provisioning the new files mean that you can svmotion them just to shrink them? since regular thin provisioning doesn’t seem to handle shrinking on its own, maybe this could be a good way to do it.
Duncan says
Need to test this Daniel, but I would say yes…
@justme , drop me an email
yoman says
when can mortal people get a copy of vsphere, these screens are making me jealus
gboskin says
Thin or Thick disk…??? whats this
williamwbishop says
Yes, this is STILL nda….
Vladan says
Duncan,
I Can’t wait to get hand on a copy…. to feel it and test is… -:)
It looks really great. Wonderful shots.
Great.
kris says
ESX 4 only work with compatible 64bit servers
jp says
ESX 3.5 will only work with 64 bit servers…and?