Migrate vCenter Virtual Server Disks

You can migrate disks of your virtual servers to other data stores, which are allocated to the same compute resource or compute zone.

To migrate a disk:

  1. Go to your Control Panel > Cloud > Virtual Servers menu.

  2. Make sure your virtual server is powered off, then click its label to open its details page.

  3. Click the Storage tab > Disks.

  4. On the following page, click the Actions button next to the disk you want to move to another data store, and then click Migrate.

  5. On the page that appears, fill in the following:

    • Type - the type of storage migration

      Only the hot storage migration type applies to the disks of vCenter virtual servers.

    • Data store - select the target data store from the drop-down list

      You can only migrate disks to data stores in data store zones assigned to your billing plan.

  6. Click Start Migrate.

You cannot migrate a disk to a data store with less capacity than the disk size. If you move an 850 GB disk between aggregates with 10 GB actual usage, the ‘dd’ image of the local volume manager will take 850 GB space, because the entire local volume manager is copied, including zero ’d space which may not be able to be recovered.