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…
I am jealous of your vSphere posts.
The “disk format” options looks great !
Thanks for sharing, i’m jealous too :p
once again…. Isn’t this still under NDA… I haven’t seen my NDA lifted yet?
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.
Need to test this Daniel, but I would say yes…
@justme , drop me an email
when can mortal people get a copy of vsphere, these screens are making me jealus
Thin or Thick disk…??? whats this
Yes, this is STILL nda….
Duncan,
I Can’t wait to get hand on a copy…. to feel it and test is… -:)
It looks really great. Wonderful shots.
Great.
ESX 4 only work with compatible 64bit servers
ESX 3.5 will only work with 64 bit servers…and?