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VMware vSphere Storage vMotion is an included feature with VMware vCenter Server. It provides the capability to migrate VM compute power to a different ESXi server, or its backing storage to a different datastore. This functionality can be used to migrate VM storage to a datastore hosted by a PowerStore T model or PowerStore X model.
Migration using Storage vMotion is a simple operation in vCenter Server. To ensure that a VMware datastore has been presented from PowerStore to the vCenter environment, select a VM and migrate the VM storage to that datastore. This action starts a migration session (see Figure 47). The migration is performed with the VM remaining online during the data transfer, and there is a short cutover to complete the operation.
vMotion migration can also be used to move compute workloads to a PowerStore X model. The migration of compute is a simple operation that can be followed using the same migrate action available for each VM in the vCenter. It offers the option to select either Change compute resource only or Change both compute resource and storage.
VMware vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion are packaged with VMware vCenter Server, which requires a license for use.