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Storage VMotion, exploring the next version of ESX/vCenter

Duncan Epping · Apr 2, 2009 ·

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…

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Management & Automation, Server ESX, esxi, Storage, vcenter, vSphere

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  1. Jason Boche says

    2 April, 2009 at 19:16

    I am jealous of your vSphere posts. 🙂

  2. NiTRo says

    2 April, 2009 at 20:52

    The “disk format” options looks great !
    Thanks for sharing, i’m jealous too :p

  3. justme says

    3 April, 2009 at 05:37

    once again…. Isn’t this still under NDA… I haven’t seen my NDA lifted yet?

  4. daniel says

    3 April, 2009 at 07:24

    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.

  5. Duncan says

    3 April, 2009 at 07:38

    Need to test this Daniel, but I would say yes…

    @justme , drop me an email

  6. yoman says

    3 April, 2009 at 08:14

    when can mortal people get a copy of vsphere, these screens are making me jealus

  7. gboskin says

    3 April, 2009 at 09:55

    Thin or Thick disk…??? whats this

  8. williamwbishop says

    3 April, 2009 at 13:37

    Yes, this is STILL nda….

  9. Vladan says

    5 April, 2009 at 05:55

    Duncan,

    I Can’t wait to get hand on a copy…. to feel it and test is… -:)

    It looks really great. Wonderful shots.

    Great.

  10. kris says

    6 April, 2009 at 07:42

    ESX 4 only work with compatible 64bit servers

  11. jp says

    16 April, 2009 at 17:35

    ESX 3.5 will only work with 64 bit servers…and?

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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