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Users want to be able to upgrade their datastore in vSphere and migrate existing VMs and data to the new datastore. For this they need to migrate stopped VMs and detached disks which is not possible at the moment. VMware does provide this functionality. The intention of this FS is to leverage VMware's functionality via existing APIs.
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Glossary
Cross-cluster migrations are not supported. Migrations will be checked for supported tags on the target datastore.
Compatibility Requirements:
This is only applicable to VMware.
Performance for this feature is dependent upon the underlying resources such as vSphere and ESXi hosts, network bandwidth and datastore speed.
Migrating an offline VM or volume is now a copy from primary to secondary and back to the new primary. This can be time consuming and requires large job timeouts. This can be cut in about half by letting the hypervisor perform the migration directly.
No API will be changed to implement this functionality. The semantics of migrateVirtualMachine and migrateVolume will be changed in that these will now yield results on VMware, as opposed to yielding errors.
No UI change will be implemented
Usage Impact
No usage impact is foreseen.
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