Multiple Copies of VMDK when moving

[sbgsxr6]

Hi All,

I've been moving some Virtual disks around in vCentre recently, and have been having some issues understanding how they work. I have a 250GB disk on one drive array and want to move it to another. The 2nd Array has 430GB free at present.

I use the "Migrate" option in vCentre and it starts copying the vmdk over, however when that has completed, it does another copy, and another copy of the same disk. All 3 disks are the same size as the full capacity of the vmdk copied, so they try taking up 3x the amount of space originally wanted. This obviously then fails due to lack of disk space.

Is this meant to happen or am I doing something wrong? I've got a few of these extra disks now. Most of the time they'll have the format of DiskName_1, DiskName_1-f6587c2 etc.....

Cheers

Simon

[Gerrit_Lehr]

Does the VM have any snapshots at the moment?

Kind regards,

Gerrit Lehr

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[sbgsxr6]

Hi Gerrit,

There are no snapshots for the VM at present. Both looking in vCentre Snapshot Manager and browsing the directory confirm this.

Thanks

Simon

[Texiwill · Accepted solution]

Hello,

How many virtual disks are attached to this one VM? SVMotion moves them all not just one.

Best regards,
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[sbgsxr6]

Hi Edward,

That'll be where i'm going wrong. I thought as it gives you the option to choose what datastore each virtual disk is on, that it'd only move the ones I have chosen to re-locate.

Is it possible to move just individual vmdk's via the command line or GUI at all?

Thanks

Simon